NDIS Provider Feed

io.github.benno303Published by GitHub account benno303v1.0.1Updated Oct 25, 2026

Agent-readable search over the NDIS Provider Register (CC BY 4.0 AU) by location and service.

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Overview

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A remote MCP server that lets an assistant search Australia's NDIS Provider Register by head office location and service category, and look up full provider by

What you can do
Search providers by suburb, state, postcode and service category, returning approved providers by default with an option to include revoked ones and a result limit. Retrieve the full record for a single provider by its ABN, including registration status, expiry, service categories, website and nested outlets. List the 38 valid NDIS service categories to use as search filters.
When to use it
Useful when you need to find registered NDIS disability support providers in a given Australian location or service category, or check a provider's registration status and details from the public register.
Requirements
A remote streamable HTTP endpoint; no authentication, API key or environment variable is needed. Any MCP client that supports streamable HTTP can connect. The endpoint scales to zero when idle, so the first call after a quiet period may take a few seconds.
Before you install
Not an official source and not affiliated with the NDIS Commission or NDIA; it mirrors the public register and can lag it by up to a week, so check the official register before relying on registration status. Location filters match head office only, not where services are delivered, and outlet addresses are often missing. Absence from the register does not mean a provider is not legitimate. Each tool call logs a timestamp, session ID, user-agent and search parameters, and Cloud Run logs recordIP

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open NDIS Provider Feed in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. 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.benno303%2Fndis-provider-feed/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.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ndis-provider-feed": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ndis-provider-feed-125475360011.australia-southeast1.run.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}

README

NDIS Provider Feed

An MCP server that makes Australia's NDIS Provider Register, the official register of disability support providers, available as clean, structured data that AI assistants and agents can query directly.

The register is public, but the only official way to search it is a web form and a bulk CSV with one row per outlet. This feed turns it into one record per provider, keyed by ABN, with search by location and service category.

  • Free, no sign-up. The register feed is free and will stay free.
  • Refreshed weekly from the official register by an automated job, with checks that block a bad refresh from going live.
  • Hosted in Sydney on Google Cloud Run.
  • Listed on the official MCP Registry as io.github.benno303/ndis-provider-feed.

Not an official source. This project isn't affiliated with or endorsed by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission or the NDIA. It mirrors their public register and can lag it by up to a week. Check the official register before relying on a provider's registration status for any decision.

Quick start

Endpoint (streamable HTTP, no auth):

https://ndis-provider-feed-125475360011.australia-southeast1.run.app/mcp

This is an MCP endpoint, not a web page. Opening it in a browser shows a "Bad Request" error. That's expected.

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http ndis-provider-feed https://ndis-provider-feed-125475360011.australia-southeast1.run.app/mcp

Claude Desktop / claude.ai: add a custom connector with the endpoint URL above.

Any other MCP client: point it at the endpoint URL using the streamable HTTP transport.

Then ask something like "Find NDIS providers offering Supported Independent Living in Cardiff, NSW".

Tools

ToolWhat it does
search_providersSearch by head office location and/or service category. Returns currently Approved providers by default, sorted by business name.
get_providerFull record for one provider, by ABN.
list_service_categoriesThe 38 valid NDIS registration groups to use as service_category.

search_providers parameters (all optional):

ParameterMatch
suburbCase-insensitive partial match on head office suburb
stateExact, e.g. NSW, VIC
postcodeExact 4-digit postcode
service_categoryExact, one of list_service_categories()
include_revokedInclude providers whose registration was revoked (default false)
limitMax results (default 20)

Example

Request:

json
{ "tool": "search_providers",  "arguments": { "suburb": "Cardiff", "state": "NSW", "service_category": "Supported Independent Living", "limit": 1 } }

Each result is a provider record like this (shortened):

json
{  "provider_id": "60632514455",  "business_name": "ADRASTEIA SERVICES PTY LTD",  "legal_name": "ADRASTEIA SERVICES PTY LTD",  "entity_type": "organisation",  "registration_status": "Approved",  "registration_expiry": "2027-10-29",  "service_categories": ["Behaviour Support", "Support Coordination", "Supported Independent Living", "..."],  "has_registration_conditions": true,  "website": "https://www.adrasteia.com.au",  "head_office": { "suburb": "CARDIFF", "state": "NSW", "postcode": "2285", "country": "AU" },  "outlets": [ { "name": "Head Office", "address": "10 Harrison Street, CARDIFF, NSW, 2285, AU", "phone": "..." } ],  "last_verified": "2026-10-12T22:54:37Z",  "source": { "register": "NDIS Provider Register", "licence": "CC BY 4.0 AU", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12T22:54:37Z" }}

Full field definitions are in schema/ndis-provider.schema.json, and the reasoning behind each mapping is in schema/ndis-provider-schema-notes.md.

The data

  • Source: the NDIS Provider Register bulk CSV, published by the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission.
  • Coverage (13 Oct 2026): 29,574 providers. 27,359 are currently Approved; 2,215 have had their registration revoked and are kept for history, but are only returned when you ask for them.
  • Freshness: every record carries last_verified, the time it was last pulled from the register. feed-status.json shows the date and counts of the latest refresh.
  • Shape: the source has one row per outlet. Here those rows are grouped into one record per provider (ABN), with outlets nested. Where a provider's outlets list different service categories, the record includes all of them.

Known limitations

  • Location means head office only. It doesn't cover where a provider actually delivers services. Outlet addresses are present for only about half of outlets in the source, and service areas aren't in the register at all.
  • Registered providers only. Unregistered providers aren't on the register, and plan-managed and self-managed participants can use them. "Not found" means "not on the register", not "not legitimate".
  • Only what the register publishes. There are no reviews, availability, pricing or specialisations. The website is blank for about a quarter of providers.
  • Registration conditions are a yes/no flag (has_registration_conditions). The source text is long and inconsistently encoded, so it isn't republished yet.
  • Results are sorted alphabetically, not by relevance.

Privacy

  • Sole traders: many are registered under their own personal name. For these records (entity_type: "individual"), the personal legal name is withheld and only the trading name is shown. The licence would allow republishing it, but finding a provider doesn't need it.
  • What's logged: each tool call logs a timestamp, the MCP session ID, the client's user-agent and the search parameters. Cloud Run's standard request logs also record IP addresses. Logs are used only to tell real usage apart from automated crawlers, and are deleted after 30 days.

Corrections

This feed mirrors the official register. If a provider's details are wrong, the fix has to be made with the NDIS Commission, and it will flow through at the next weekly refresh.

Licence and attribution

  • Code: MIT © 2026 Ben Armstrong.
  • Data: contains information from the NDIS Provider Register, © NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Australia (CC BY 4.0 AU). The data has been restructured (grouped by provider, fields parsed, sole traders' legal names withheld). If you reuse data from this feed, keep that attribution.

Status and feedback

This is an early-stage project, built and run by Ben Armstrong (@benno303). There's no uptime guarantee, and the endpoint scales to zero when idle, so the first call after a quiet period can take a few seconds.

I'm exploring whether there's a sustainable business in keeping provider information reliable for AI assistants. Anything paid would sit on top of this feed; the register feed itself stays free.

Feedback, bug reports and "this would be useful if…" ideas are very welcome. Please open an issue.

Running it yourself

Requires Python 3.10+.

pip install -r requirements.txt
# Run locally over stdio against the bundled 10-record samplepython mcp_server/server.py
# Build the full feed from a fresh download of the registercurl -L -A "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36" -o register.csv https://www.ndiscommission.gov.au/provider-registration/find-registered-provider/download-csvpython ingest/ingest_ndis.py register.csv mcp_server/data/ndis_providers.jsonlpython ingest/validate_feed.py mcp_server/data/ndis_providers.jsonlpython mcp_server/server.py --data mcp_server/data/ndis_providers.jsonl
# Serve over HTTP (binds 0.0.0.0, port from $PORT, default 8000)python mcp_server/server.py --data mcp_server/data/ndis_providers.jsonl --transport streamable-http
# End-to-end check over the real MCP protocolpython mcp_server/test_server.py mcp_server/data/ndis_providers.jsonl

The register download is about 40 MB and takes a minute or two to generate. The Commission's server doesn't respond to non-browser user-agents (curl's default just hangs), hence the -A flag.

Notes on the MCP Python SDK (2.x)

  • Tools raise ToolError for expected failures (e.g. ABN not found), so the client gets a readable is_error=True result. Any other exception is treated as a server crash.
  • Tools returning a list come back in structured_content. Tools returning a dict (like get_provider) come back as JSON text in content[0].text, so clients should handle both.

Source: README.md at commit 002b654

Tools

3

search_providers

Search NDIS providers by head office location and/or service category. Location filters match the provider's head office, not individual outlets — outlet addresses are inconsistently populated in the source register (~54%), so head office is the more reliable location signal for Phase 0. Args: suburb: Case-insensitive substring match against head office suburb. state: Exact match, e.g. "NSW", "VIC". postcode: Exact 4-digit postcode match. service_category: Exact match against one of the known NDIS registration groups — call list_service_categories() for the valid values. include_revoked: If false (default), only "Approved" providers are returned. limit: Max results to return (default 20).

Parameterslimitstatesuburbpostcodeinclude_revokedservice_category

get_provider

Get the full record for a single provider by its ABN (provider_id).

Parametersprovider_idrequired

list_service_categories

List the valid NDIS service category values usable in search_providers().

Takes no parameters.

Version history

2
  1. v1.0.1LatestOct 13, 2026
  2. v1.0.0Sep 17, 2026

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