License Verify Mcp

Contractor License + Bond + Insurance Verify (MCP, agent-payable)

The only MCP-native license check that returns official SURETY BOND + INSURANCE from state data — not just active/inactive status. Pay-per-success: $0.03 full result, $0.01 status-only, FREE on a miss. WA live (official L&I), CA beta (CSLB).

Tools: verify_license, list_supported_jurisdictions.

Quickstart

// Call{ "tool": "verify_license", "jurisdiction": "WA", "license_number": "ECOSTSC758NN" }

// Response (abridged){  "found": true,  "result": {    "status": "active",    "bonded":  { "is_bonded": true, "details": "Surety: NORTH RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY THE; Amount: $30,000" },    "insured": { "has_insurance": true, "details": "Carrier: State National Ins Co Inc; Coverage: $1,000,000" }  }}

Jurisdictions

Washington is the reliable, production-ready jurisdiction. Official WA L&I open data is served via Socrata JSON — no scraping, no rate limits, bond and insurance data included from dedicated datasets.

California is beta. CSLB does not publish an open API; the provider fetches the HTML detail page directly. CSLB rate-limits or 503s automated requests intermittently. When unavailable, verify_license returns a clean SESSION_ERROR — you are never charged on source failures. Do not rely on CA for production workflows until a stable server-side CSLB run is confirmed.

Apify Actor

Agentic-payments eligible — pay-per-event pricing + limited permissions + no Standby mode.

Pricing

Charged only on found: true. Validation errors, not-found results, and source failures are not charged.

Input

{  "jurisdiction": "WA",  "license_number": "ECOSTSC758NN"}

Output (default dataset)

{  "found": true,  "jurisdiction": "WA",  "query": { "license_number": "ECOSTSC758NN" },  "result": {    "license_number": "ECOSTSC758NN",    "business_name": "!ECO STAR C G CONSTRUCTION LLC",    "status": "active",    "license_type": "CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR",    "bonded": {      "is_bonded": true,      "details": "Surety: NORTH RIVER INSURANCE COMPANY THE; Bond #: 46CF842686; Amount: $30,000; Effective: 2025-08-05; Expires: Until Canceled"    },    "insured": {      "has_insurance": true,      "details": "Carrier: State National Ins Co Inc; Policy: NXT9PTHTLT-01-GL; Coverage: $1,000,000; Agency: Next Insurance Inc; Effective: 2026-06-12; Expires: 2027-06-12"    },    "effective_date": "2025-08-15",    "expiration_date": "2027-08-15"  },  "source_url": "https://data.wa.gov/resource/m8qx-ubtq",  "retrieved_at": "2026-06-26T01:34:37.598Z",  "raw": { ... }}

status is always one of: active | expired | suspended | revoked | unknown.

On failure: { "found": false, "error": "SESSION_ERROR|NETWORK_ERROR|...", "message": "..." } — never a crash, never a charge.

Local test

npm installnpm run buildecho '{"jurisdiction":"WA","license_number":"ECOSTSC758NN"}' \  > storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.jsonnpx apify run

MCP Server (stdio)

For use with Claude Desktop, Smithery, or any MCP-compatible agent.

Tools

verify_license — verify a contractor's license status.

• jurisdiction (required): "WA" or "CA"
• license_number and/or business_name (at least one required)

list_supported_jurisdictions — list all states with their status and data source.

Config (Claude Desktop)

{  "mcpServers": {    "license-verify": {      "command": "node",      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/license-verify-mcp/dist/index.js"]    }  }}

Run

npm install && npm run buildnpm run start:mcp   # stdio MCP servernpm run smoke       # hit real WA + CA endpoints, must be 8/8 PASS

Adding a State

1. Create src/providers/<CODE>.ts implementing the Provider interface ({ info, verify() })
2. Register it in src/providers/index.ts

No other changes needed in server or Actor.

License

MIT