# HouseFile UK property licensing checker

> Checks whether a property in England is in a council's selective or HMO licensing scheme

- name: app.housefile/licensing
- version: 1.0.0
- connection class: R0 (autonomous)
- trust: 83/100 flags: no-repository
- quality: 89/100 (new)
- owner: not claimed
- descriptor: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.housefile%2Flicensing
- tools: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.housefile%2Flicensing/tools

**An agent can connect right now, no human step.** Remote endpoint, no authentication, reachable on the last probe.

## Connection (mcpServers)

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "licensing": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.housefile.app/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```


## Trust

- hygiene: 80
- liveness: 100
- freshness: 100
- provenance: 55
- drivers: +dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-3d-ago -no-repository
- Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed.

## Quality 89/100 (new)

### protocol: 75 (weight 25)

- warn `protocol.modern`: newest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
- n/a `protocol.stateless`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers
- pass `protocol.transport`: streamable HTTP
- n/a `protocol.list_ttl`: only applies to 2026-07-28 servers

### authorization: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `auth.prm`, `auth.as_metadata`, `auth.cimd`: no remote uses OAuth
- n/a `auth.secret_in_url`: no templated URL

### tool hygiene: 100 (weight 30)

- pass `tools.descriptions`: every tool has a description
- pass `tools.description_length`: descriptions are concise
- pass `tools.schemas`: every tool has an object input schema
- pass `tools.annotations`: 4 of 4 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
- pass `tools.directory_hints`: every tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
- pass `tools.token_cost`: about 786 tokens to load every tool
- pass `tools.api_dump`: tools are not a one-to-one API dump

### stability: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `stability.changes`, `stability.rug_pull`: tool history recorded for 3 of the 7 days needed

### dependencies: n/a (weight 15)

- n/a `deps.known_vulns`, `deps.mcp_sdk_version`, `deps.resolvable`: no npm or PyPI package

- tools: 4, about 786 tokens to load them all
- tool set hash: dcc3831826dba56bf1e9322a157c5a69
- tools last changed: 2026-10-19T11:35:46.803Z
- badge: [![protogrid quality](https://protogrid.dev/badge/app.housefile/licensing.svg)](https://protogrid.dev/servers/app.housefile/licensing)
- Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed.

### Tool changes

- 2026-10-19 `upcoming_licensing_changes` changed (outputSchema)
- 2026-10-19 `check_property_licensing` changed (outputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `upcoming_licensing_changes` changed (outputSchema)
- 2026-10-18 `check_property_licensing` changed (outputSchema)

Full history: https://api.protogrid.dev/v1/servers/app.housefile%2Flicensing/changes

## Remotes

- https://www.housefile.app/mcp (streamable-http, auth none, reachable true, uptime30d 1)

## Packages

_none_

## Tools (4)

- `check_property_licensing`: Looks up a postcode in England in HouseFile’s records of council licensing schemes and returns each scheme in force there, with its dates, fee, source link and the date the records were last verified, plus the national HMO rule. Schemes not in force yet are listed under upcoming. It works to postcode precision, so near a scheme’s edge it says so. Give occupants and households to settle the mandatory HMO test in England.
- `licensing_coverage`: Which councils HouseFile’s records cover, with the number of published schemes for each and when they were last verified. Use it to tell the user honestly whether their area is covered.
- `list_council_schemes`: Lists a council’s licensing schemes from HouseFile’s records: in force, starting soon, proposed, and ended in the last 12 months, each with its area, dates, fee, source link and last verified date. Takes a council name, part of a name or a GSS code. If several councils match, it returns them to choose from.
- `upcoming_licensing_changes`: What’s coming: schemes proposed or starting soon, and recent changes to schemes in HouseFile’s records (started, ended, fee or area changed), newest first. Optionally for one council, and for a number of months ahead and back (6 by default, at most 24).