Canido Mcp

io.github.benswork-spacePublished by GitHub account benswork-spacev0.1.1Updated Oct 27, 2026

Look up permits, licenses, and fees for food service businesses in Austin, SF, and NYC.

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Overview

AI-generated overview

CanIDo MCP server lets an assistant look up permits, licenses, fees and agencies for food service businesses in Austin, San Francisco and New York City.

What you can do
  • Look up permit, license and regulatory requirements for a business activity in a supported city, optionally filtered by category such as health, fire, zoning or alcohol
  • List the supported locations
  • Fetch detailed information about a specific requirement by its ID
When to use it
Useful when planning to open or operate a food truck, restaurant, catering or cottage food business in Austin, San Francisco or New York City and you want structured permit, fee, agency and processing-time answers inside the assistant.
Requirements
Runs locally via npx from the npm package @canido/mcp-server, so Node.js is needed. A CanIDo API key is required in the CANIDO_API_KEY environment variable; a free tier of 10 queries per month is available. CANIDO_API_URL can override the default production endpoint, for example for self-hosted deployments. Network access to the CanIDo API is required.
Before you install
The API key in CANIDO_API_KEY is a secret and is sent to the CanIDo service. Usage is metered: the free tier allows 10 queries per month, and paid plans (Starter, Pro, Enterprise) cost money, so heavy use can incur charges. Queries about business activities and locations are sent to a third-party API. Coverage is limited to three US cities and four food service activities.

Installation

In SourceWeft

  1. Open Canido Mcp in the dashboard and add it to a workspace.
  2. Enable the server for the chats that should use its tools.

Desktop only via STDIO. STDIO servers start a local process, so they need the SourceWeft desktop host.

Other MCP clients

Follow the launch instructions in the repository.

README

@canido/mcp-server

MCP server for CanIDo — the regulatory intelligence API that answers: "What permits, licenses, or regulations apply if I want to do X at location Y?"

Give any MCP-compatible AI agent (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, etc.) the ability to look up structured permit requirements for food service businesses in:

  • 🤠 Austin, TX
  • 🌉 San Francisco, CA
  • 🗽 New York City, NY

Installation

Claude Desktop

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

json
{  "mcpServers": {    "canido": {      "command": "npx",      "args": ["-y", "@canido/mcp-server"],      "env": {        "CANIDO_API_KEY": "your_api_key_here"      }    }  }}

Get a free API key at canido-api-production.up.railway.app (10 queries/month, no credit card required).

Cursor / Continue / other MCP clients

Any MCP-compatible client will work. Point them at:

command: npxargs: ["-y", "@canido/mcp-server"]env:  CANIDO_API_KEY: your_api_key

Tools

lookup_requirements

Look up permits, licenses, and regulatory requirements for a business activity in a specific location.

Parameters:

  • activity: food_truck | restaurant | catering | cottage_food
  • location: austin_tx | san_francisco_ca | new_york_city_ny
  • category (optional): health | fire | zoning | building | alcohol | tax | business_registration | certification

list_locations

Get all supported locations.

get_requirement_detail

Get detailed info about a specific requirement by ID.

Example

Ask Claude:

"What do I need to open a food truck in Austin?"

Claude will call lookup_requirements and come back with structured data: permits, fees, agencies, processing times, prerequisites, and common gotchas.

Pricing

  • Free: 10 queries/month
  • Starter: $49/mo — 500 queries/month
  • Pro: $199/mo — 5,000 queries/month + bulk lookups + regulatory change webhooks
  • Enterprise: Custom

License

MIT

Source: README.md at commit 3627c6c

Tools

0
SourceWeft has not started this package in its sandbox yet, so its tools are not known.

Version history

1
  1. v0.1.1LatestSep 16, 2026

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