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Nearby Permits MCP

v0.1.0

com.nearbypermits/permits

Building permits by street address for 8 US cities, from city open data. Free, no key.

transport:streamable-http tools:4

Target client

run in your project directory

claude mcp add --transport http permits https://nearbypermits.com/mcp

setup guides: Claude Code Claude Desktop Cursor VS Code Zed Windsurf Cline Gemini CLI Grok ChatGPT Claude.ai LangChain

Adds it for this project only. Append --scope user to make it available everywhere. Claude Code docs

list_cities Read-only

list cities

permits_at_address

permits at address

get_permit Read-only

get permit

recent_permits

recent permits

All 4 tools, one page each

Mutating and Read-only are read off each tool's name, not its schema — a hint, not a guarantee. Check the server's own documentation before granting access.