# usaspending-mcp-server MCP Server

Access US federal award, recipient, agency, and spending analytics data from USAspending.gov.

**Tools observed.** Pod connected on 2026-09-05 and the server listed 18 tools directly. Verified.

## Status

Pod connected to usaspending-mcp-server on 2026-09-05. It answered and listed its tools, responding in 24662ms.

It identifies itself as `usaspending-mcp-server` version 0.4.2, speaking sse. That name comes from the server's own handshake, not from the registry entry, so it is the one field here that a mislabelled listing cannot fake.

## Tools

Pod observed 18 tools when it connected:

- `usaspending_list_agencies`
- `usaspending_autocomplete_filters`
- `usaspending_search_awards`
- `usaspending_get_award`
- `usaspending_get_award_transactions`
- `usaspending_get_award_subawards`
- `usaspending_get_award_federal_accounts`
- `usaspending_get_idv_awards`
- `usaspending_search_recipients`
- `usaspending_get_recipient`
- `usaspending_get_agency`
- `usaspending_spending_by_geography`
- `usaspending_spending_by_category`
- `usaspending_spending_over_time`
- `usaspending_disaster_spending`
- `usaspending_get_federal_account`
- `usaspending_get_federal_account_breakdown`
- `usaspending_search_federal_accounts`

## Connect

Published as `@cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usaspending-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

A hosted endpoint at `https://usaspending.caseyjhand.com/mcp`, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usaspending-mcp-server": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usaspending.caseyjhand.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

Published as `@cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server` on npm. Runs locally.

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "usaspending-mcp-server": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@cyanheads/usaspending-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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