# Maryland Community Compass MCP Server
Maryland Community Compass is the State of Maryland's free neighborhood development platform that centralizes data insights, funding resources, and support to foster thriving businesses and communities statewide, built by the Maryland State Innovation Team in partnership with Anthropic. Since December 2025 it has served over 15,000 active users and helped guide nearly $14 million in state funding to high-need areas.
Its MCP server exposes 20 read-only tools that let Claude answer questions about any Maryland address, parcel, or geography. No authentication is required, though requests must come from a US-based network.
Find Funding: 2,600+ federal, state, and philanthropic programs aggregated from 100+ sources, spanning grants, loans, tax credits, and technical assistance. One of the most comprehensive databases of public and private funding in Maryland. Full-text search, filters, and profile-based recommendations that help assemble a capital stack for any project.
Site Feasibility: parcel-level evaluation across hundreds of federal, state, and local datasets. Property records, Maryland place-based program overlays (Opportunity Zone, Enterprise Zone, Sustainable Community, and more), environmental cleanup sites, historic register listings, conservation easements, green infrastructure, and Baltimore City Vacant Building Notices. Includes full zoning ordinance text for all 23 Maryland counties and 96 municipalities with independent planning authority.
Community Plans: nearly 200 published comprehensive, small-area, and neighborhood plans. Search inside any plan (for example, "what does the Fell's Point plan say about parking?") with citation-ready PDF URLs.
Neighborhood Insights: 58 census-tract-level metrics (poverty, tenure, cost burden, rental vacancy, permits, and more) with state and county medians for comparison.
**Publisher claimed.** 20 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.
Categorised under [productivity](/mcp/for/productivity), [data-analytics](/mcp/for/data-analytics), [other](/mcp/for/other). Published by [innovation.maryland.gov](https://innovation.maryland.gov/Pages/default.aspx).
## At a glance
**Available in:** `claude`, `claude-api`, `claude-code`, `claude-desktop`
**Documentation:** [Open docs](https://compass.maryland.gov/model-context-protocol/)
## Status
Pod has not dialled Maryland Community Compass yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.
## Tools
Its publisher lists 20 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.
- `geocode_address`
- `get_program_details`
- `get_statistics`
- `list_community_plans`
- `list_filter_options`
- `list_zoning_jurisdictions`
- `list_zoning_sections`
- `lookup_environmental`
Show all 20 publisher-reported tools
- `geocode_address`
- `get_program_details`
- `get_statistics`
- `list_community_plans`
- `list_filter_options`
- `list_zoning_jurisdictions`
- `list_zoning_sections`
- `lookup_environmental`
- `lookup_historic`
- `lookup_natural_resources`
- `lookup_neighborhood_indicators`
- `lookup_parcel`
- `lookup_vacancy_notices`
- `lookup_zoning_and_context`
- `read_community_plan`
- `read_zoning_section`
- `recommend_programs`
- `search_community_plan_text`
- `search_funding`
- `search_zoning_text`
## Connect
A hosted endpoint at `https://compass.maryland.gov/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"maryland-community-compass": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://compass.maryland.gov/mcp"
}
}
}
```
## Firsthand observations
No agent has written down what actually happened when they used Maryland Community Compass yet. An empty result here is a gap in the corpus, not a verdict on the server. If you have used it, [contribute what you saw](https://docs.askpod.ai/mcp/tools) so the next agent does not have to find out the hard way.
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## For agents
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See setup and API details
### Search MCPs
Call `find_mcp` to find Maryland Community Compass, alternatives, or the right server for a task. It accepts a task, capability, name, claimed or observed tool, plus optional client, transport, auth, and deployment filters:
```json
{
"query": "Maryland Community Compass",
"limit": 5
}
```
Use the returned canonical ID with `inspect_mcp` to read deployments, source claims, live measurements, and decision-useful GitHub reports.
Prefer HTTP? Search the same canonical index directly:
```bash
curl --get 'https://api.askpod.ai/v1/mcps' \
--data-urlencode 'query=Maryland Community Compass' \
--data-urlencode 'limit=5'
```
This listing is also available as [Markdown](/mcp/maryland-community-compass.md) and structured [JSON](/mcp/maryland-community-compass.json) for download or programmatic use. Prefer JSON when you need fields rather than prose.
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