Akil MCP - New York City Edition

io.github.AkilVenturesPublished by GitHub account AkilVenturesv2.5.1Updated Oct 24, 2026

Agent-ready NYC public records. Hosted, source-backed civic data organized around durable anchors.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

A hosted MCP server that gives AI assistants source-backed New York City public records on property, business, public money, lobbying and nonprofits.

What you can do
Look up business location records: permits, licenses, inspections and location constraints, keyed by license or application identifiers. Run property diligence: ownership, tax-lot identity, deeds, sales, permits, violations and tax records. Trace public money: awards, payments, contracts, agency budgets and recipient history. Check influence and government: lobbying, campaign finance, legislation, votes, hearings and officeholders. Verify organizations: nonprofit registries, audits, funding history, compliance records and aliases. Answer spatial questions by address, BBL, district, neighborhood, radius, polygon, corridor or time window.
When to use it
Useful when an assistant needs to reason from New York City civic records rather than general knowledge: checking a storefront lease, investigating a building's ownership and violations, following public funding to an organization, or reviewing what changed in a district. Responses are organized around durable identifiers such as BBL, EIN, agency, district and license.
Requirements
A remote MCP endpoint; nothing to install for normal use. OAuth sign-in is required for user-authorized sessions; developer access can use an API key as a bearer token. Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and custom agents.
Before you install
Access requires authorization, so an account and credentials are involved; do not post tokens, API keys or sensitive records in public issues. The README states every tool is read-only and non-destructive, but queries and identifiers are sent to the hosted service.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Akil MCP - New York City Edition in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Connect the required credentials. They are stored privately and never shown on public pages.
  3. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Web executable via Streamable HTTP. Remote servers run from the web runtime once configured in a workspace.

Use with an agent

Paste this prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or another agent — or into SourceWeft chat. The agent reads this server's install guide, shows you its publisher, endpoint and sign-in, and adds it to your client once you agree. Keys never go into a command.

Read https://sourceweft.com/mcp/io.github.AkilVentures%2Fakil-mcp/install.md and connect the MCP server it describes to my client. Before changing any config, show me its publisher, endpoint and sign-in method and wait for my OK. Never put an API key in a command or in a file I would commit; ask me where it should come from.

Read the install guide the agent follows

Other MCP clients

Add this to your client's mcpServers config. The client completes OAuth sign-in on first connect.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "akil-new-york-city-edition": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.askakil.ai/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

Akil MCP - New York City Edition

[npm] [License: MIT] [Docs]

NYC public records for AI agents.

Akil MCP connects Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, and custom agents to a hosted civic data layer built around real workflows, reusable identifiers, and source-backed public records.

The product is the hosted MCP server. This repository is the public connection home for developers, evaluators, and partner teams who want to understand what Akil can do before connecting an agent.

Connect

There is nothing to install for normal use.

MCP endpoint: https://mcp.askakil.ai/mcp

ClientHow to connect
ClaudeAdd Akil as a custom connector, paste the MCP URL, and sign in when prompted.
ChatGPTUse connectors where available, add the MCP URL, and complete the Akil authorization flow.
CodexRegister Akil as a streamable HTTP MCP server. Developer access can send an API key as a bearer token.
Custom agentsUse OAuth for user-authorized sessions or API keys for backend jobs and partner workflows.

Full setup and docs:

What agents can do

Akil is organized around civic workflows rather than a single dataset.

WorkflowWhat the assistant can check
Business locationPermits, licenses, inspections, operating context, and location constraints
Property diligenceOwnership, tax-lot identity, deeds, sales, permits, violations, and tax records
Public moneyAwards, payments, contracts, agency budgets, and recipient history
Influence and governmentLobbying, campaign finance, legislation, votes, hearings, and officeholder context
Organization checksNonprofit registries, audits, funding history, compliance records, and aliases
Spatial questionsAddress, BBL, district, neighborhood, radius, polygon, corridor, and time-windowed queries

Why this exists

A general model can reason. Akil gives it records to reason from.

The useful part is not the number of tools. It is that fragmented public records come back with stable identifiers, source context, and next steps an assistant can actually follow.

Anchor-first design

Akil responses are designed to keep agents oriented around durable civic identifiers:

mermaid
flowchart LR  Q["User question"] --> A["Anchor"]  A --> BBL["BBL / tax lot"]  A --> EIN["EIN / organization"]  A --> Agency["Agency"]  A --> District["District / boundary"]  A --> License["License / application"]  A --> Time["Time window"]  BBL --> R["Source-backed answer"]  EIN --> R  Agency --> R  District --> R  License --> R  Time --> R
  • BBL for tax lots, buildings, ownership, permits, sales, tax records, and violations
  • EIN for nonprofits, audits, awards, filings, and organization checks
  • Agency for budgets, contracts, payments, rules, hearings, and payroll context
  • District or other boundaries for place-based questions
  • License and application identifiers for regulated businesses
  • Time window for bounded, usable queries

These anchors let an assistant move from one public record system to another without losing the subject of the question.

Example prompts

text
I am looking at a storefront lease. What public records should I check before signing?
text
Who owns this building, and are there recent permits or violations tied to the tax lot?
text
Show public funding, contracts, and payments tied to this organization.
text
What changed in this council district over the last year?
text
Is this restaurant, liquor, tobacco, cannabis, or sidewalk-cafe location worth checking more closely?

See the workflow recipes:

Standards and discovery

For clients, directories, and evaluators that probe machine-readable surfaces:

  • Server Card: https://mcp.askakil.ai/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (also at /.well-known/mcp.json)
  • OAuth resource metadata: https://mcp.askakil.ai/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource (RFC 9728)
  • Protocol: serves current-era MCP clients (protocol revision 2026-07-28) and 2025-era legacy clients on the same endpoint
  • Health: https://mcp.askakil.ai/health reports version and live tool count
  • Tool behavior: every tool is read-only and non-destructive, declares MCP safety annotations, returns a source-attribution footer, and states plainly when a search is capped or empty
  • Registry manifest: server.json in this repository

What this repository is

This public repository contains:

  • connection metadata
  • setup notes
  • workflow examples
  • public-facing security contact information

It does not contain the hosted server implementation, data pipelines, database schema, private infrastructure, or internal operating documents.

Public surfaces

Security

Please do not post tokens, API keys, private prompts, or sensitive records in GitHub issues. See SECURITY.md for reporting guidance.

About

Akil is built by Akil Ventures, Inc., a Delaware corporation building civic intelligence infrastructure for AI agents.

License

MIT. This public repository documents the hosted MCP server and lightweight connection metadata. The hosted Akil service runs proprietary infrastructure and is not open source.

Source: README.md at commit 169578b

Tools

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This server asks you to sign in, so SourceWeft could not read its tools without an account and has not indexed them. What a connected account sees can depend on that account and its permissions.

Version history

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  1. v2.5.1LatestSep 16, 2026

Score

85% of the applicable checks met

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