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{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motley": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

claude mcp add --transport http motley https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp

[mcp_servers.motley]
url = "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"

{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "motley": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motley": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  },
  "deeplink": "cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=motley&config=eyJ0eXBlIjoiaHR0cCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vbWNwLm1vdGxleS5ueWMvbWNwIn0%3D"
}

{
  "servers": {
    "motley": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "motley": {
      "httpUrl": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

extensions:
  "motley":
    enabled: true
    name: "motley"
    type: streamable_http
    uri: "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp"
    timeout: 300

Quality 75 / 100good

protocol75 · weight 25

warn
protocol.modernnewest supported version is 2025-11-25; 2026-07-28 not supported, older versions are deprecated until 2027-07-28
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protocol.statelessonly applies to 2026-07-28 servers
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protocol.transportstreamable HTTP
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protocol.list_ttlonly applies to 2026-07-28 servers

authorizationn/a · weight 15

n/a
auth.prm, auth.as_metadata, auth.cimdno remote uses OAuth
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auth.secret_in_urlno templated URL

tool hygiene100 · weight 30

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tools.descriptionsevery tool has a description
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tools.description_lengthdescriptions are concise
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tools.schemasevery tool has an object input schema
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tools.annotations20 of 20 tools declare readOnlyHint or destructiveHint
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tools.directory_hintsevery tool declares readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint and openWorldHint
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tools.token_costabout 5,790 tokens to load every tool
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tools.api_dumptools are not a one-to-one API dump

stability25 · weight 15

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stability.changes29 tool changes in 30 days
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stability.rug_pull2 tools kept their name but changed most of their description in 30 days; review before trusting them

dependenciesn/a · weight 15

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deps.known_vulns, deps.mcp_sdk_version, deps.resolvableno npm or PyPI package

20 tools, about 5,790 tokens to load them all · tool set 5e15c1c45e5c · tools last changed 2026-10-18 · checked 2026-10-20 18:06 UTC

Tool changes

2026-10-18rank-neighborhoodschangeddescription, input schema, output schemameaning changed
before
Rank NYC neighborhoods by what a family cares about. Pass per-metric weights (family density, schools, affordability, neighborhood character, transit, safety, air quality & child health) and/or ranked priority keywords; optionally scope to one borough. Keywords that map to a metric: safety, schools, academics, affordability, budget, transit, commute, walkability, proximity, community. Any other keyword, including diversity and parks, adds no weight, because no neighborhood score measures it. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the metric breakdown — a deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
after · 41% of words in common
Rank NYC's residential neighborhoods by what a family cares about — the same ranking as Best fit on motley.nyc. Pass ranked priority words, most important first: families, schools, affordability, character, getting-around, safety, air-and-health (and synonyms such as crime, rent, transit, commute, kids), plus two factors — parks or playgrounds (the share of homes within a 10-minute walk of an NYC Parks playground) and diversity (how evenly residents spread across five census groups). Or pass per-metric weights for the seven scores. Optionally scope to one borough. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the score breakdown, which factors counted, any priority words we don't measure (relay them — they added nothing), and a best_fit_url that opens the same ranking on motley.nyc. A deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
2026-10-18get-neighborhood-summarychangeddescription
before
Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw scores still available, weekday-morning transit minutes to the city's main job centers, and a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump. A non-residential area (park, cemetery, airport, institution) isn't scored, and the summary says so.
after · 91% of words in common
Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, what stands out and what to weigh among its Family Fit scores (`tradeoffs`), labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw scores still available, weekday-morning transit minutes to the city's main job centers, and a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump. A non-residential area (park, cemetery, airport, institution) isn't scored, and the summary says so.
2026-10-16get-admissions-timelineadded
Use this when a family asks what's coming for their child — which NYC school applications (3-K, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, middle school, high school) they'll make, and when. Pass each child's current grade, or an age (0–5) for a child not in school yet. Returns every transition in the next two years with the city's published dates where it has announced them, and the typical window where it hasn't. Never present a typical window as a date.
2026-10-16find-collectionsadded
Use this when a family asks for lists of NYC schools or neighborhoods picked by a rule rather than a ranking: zoned schools that beat their district while serving high-need students; high school programs with more seats per applicant; schools where no group is a majority and families rate them highly (kind 'schools'); or affordable family neighborhoods with such a school, and family neighborhoods where no single group is a majority (kind 'neighborhoods'). Optionally one borough. Each list carries its rule, its true count and its first members. State the rule; don't call members 'best' or 'hidden gems'.
2026-10-16explain-scoreadded
Use this when a family asks how one of Motley's scores is computed — a neighborhood score (Family Fit, Schools, Safety / Peace of Mind, Affordability, Getting Around, Neighborhood Character, Air & Child Health, Things to Do) or the school rating — or whether the scores are biased toward wealthier areas. Returns what the score measures, its inputs and weights, how they combine, its share of Family Fit, its known limits, its sources, and how it moves with neighborhood income (Spearman's ρ with median household income). Relay the income figure plainly; don't reassure past it.
2026-10-16compare-neighborhoodschangeddescription, input schema, output schema
before
Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Character, Transit, Safety, Health, Activities). Pass an array of NTA codes; returns a per-metric matrix with each neighborhood's band and the per-metric leader.
after · 68% of words in common
Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Character, Transit, Safety, Health, Activities). Pass an array of NTA codes; returns a per-metric matrix with each neighborhood's band and the per-metric leader, plus weekday-morning transit minutes from each to the city's main job centers. Non-residential areas aren't scored and are dropped.
2026-10-16rank-neighborhoodschangeddescription, output schema
before
Rank NYC neighborhoods by what a family cares about. Pass per-metric weights (family density, schools, affordability, neighborhood character, transit, safety, air & water quality) and/or ranked priority keywords; optionally scope to one borough. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the metric breakdown — a deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
after · 69% of words in common
Rank NYC neighborhoods by what a family cares about. Pass per-metric weights (family density, schools, affordability, neighborhood character, transit, safety, air quality & child health) and/or ranked priority keywords; optionally scope to one borough. Keywords that map to a metric: safety, schools, academics, affordability, budget, transit, commute, walkability, proximity, community. Any other keyword, including diversity and parks, adds no weight, because no neighborhood score measures it. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the metric breakdown — a deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
2026-10-16get-comparablechangedoutput schema
2026-10-16get-safetychangeddescription
before
Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, asthma rates — plus a family-readable interpretation of the Peace of Mind and Air & Water Quality scores.
after · 94% of words in common
Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, asthma rates — plus a family-readable interpretation of the Peace of Mind and Air & Child Health scores.
2026-10-16get-neighborhood-summarychangeddescription
before
Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw scores still available, plus a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump.
after · 71% of words in common
Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw scores still available, weekday-morning transit minutes to the city's main job centers, and a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump. A non-residential area (park, cemetery, airport, institution) isn't scored, and the summary says so.

Showing the latest 10. Full history: list_changes · trend: quality JSON.

Checks run on what our credential-free, read-only probes observe; tools are never called and no code audit is performed. How it is computed.

Trust 83 / 100

no-repository

provenance55

liveness100

freshness100

hygiene80

+dns-namespace +website +reachable +uptime-100% +updated-2d-ago -no-repository

Derived from observable signals (official registry feed and our own credential-free probes); no code audit performed. How it is computed.

Endpoints

remote	auth	reachable	uptime 30d	p50	protocol	last ok
`https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp` streamable-http	none	yes	100%	277 ms	2025-11-25	2026-10-20

Tools (20)

`browse-schools`read-only	Find NYC schools citywide by what a family wants — borough, community school district (1-32), grade band (pre-K/elementary/middle/high), school type (public/charter/private), admissions method (zoned, screened, unscreened, limited unscreened, ed-opt, audition, SHSAT, charter lottery, private, universal pre-K), and program focus (arts, sports, STEM, language, academic, clubs). Use this when the family describes the KIND of school they want; use get-schools when you already have an nta_code and want everything in that neighborhood. Pass only the filters actually stated — at least one is required, and an invented one returns nothing. Program focus is tagged on public and charter schools only.
`compare-neighborhoods`read-only	Compare 2–6 NYC neighborhoods side by side across the 9 family-fit metrics (Family Fit, Families, Affordability, Schools, Neighborhood Character, Transit, Safety, Health, Activities). Pass an array of NTA codes; returns a per-metric matrix with each neighborhood's band and the per-metric leader, plus weekday-morning transit minutes from each to the city's main job centers. Non-residential areas aren't scored and are dropped.
`explain-admissions-method`read-only	Explain one NYC admission entry point or method in full — the plain-English explainer, its typical deadline window, and, when the method asks a family for more than a ranked application, exactly what it requires (audition or portfolio, SHSAT registration, a demonstrated-interest sign-in, a private school's own test/interview track) plus the extra paperwork that comes with it. Pass a method key (shsat, audition, screened, ed_opt, limited_unscreened, unscreened, zoned, charter_lottery, private_admissions, prek_universal) or an early entry point (three-k, pre-k, kindergarten, gifted-talented).
`explain-score`read-only	Use this when a family asks how one of Motley's scores is computed — a neighborhood score (Family Fit, Schools, Safety / Peace of Mind, Affordability, Getting Around, Neighborhood Character, Air & Child Health, Things to Do) or the school rating — or whether the scores are biased toward wealthier areas. Returns what the score measures, its inputs and weights, how they combine, its share of Family Fit, its known limits, its sources, and how it moves with neighborhood income (Spearman's ρ with median household income). Relay the income figure plainly; don't reassure past it.
`find-collections`read-only	Use this when a family asks for lists of NYC schools or neighborhoods picked by a rule rather than a ranking: zoned schools that beat their district while serving high-need students; high school programs with more seats per applicant; schools where no group is a majority and families rate them highly (kind 'schools'); or affordable family neighborhoods with such a school, and family neighborhoods where no single group is a majority (kind 'neighborhoods'). Optionally one borough. Each list carries its rule, its true count and its first members. State the rule; don't call members 'best' or 'hidden gems'.
`find-neighborhood`read-only	Find which NYC neighborhood (NTA) an address or coordinate is in. Pass a NYC address the family gave (placed with NYC's official address directory; include the borough when you know it) OR lat+lng. Returns the NTA code, name, borough, a link to the neighborhood's Motley page, and a decision-ready family-fit summary. Use this to turn a real-world location into a neighborhood you can pass to the other tools.
`find-school`read-only	Use this to turn a school's name into its DBN — the official name, a common short form ('Brooklyn Tech', 'PS 321'), or a DBN to confirm. Returns candidate schools with their district, neighborhood, admission method and Motley page; pick the one that matches and pass its dbn to get-admissions-demand. Never guess a DBN. K-12 schools only (public, charter, private).
`get-activities`read-only	Get kids' activities and businesses in a neighborhood — classes, sports, arts, tutoring, etc. Use count_only for category breakdown, or limit/offset to page the full list (reports total/returned). Each place's last_refreshed is when we last confirmed it was still listed.
`get-admissions-demand`read-only	Use this when a family asks how a specific school admits students or how hard it is to get in. Returns the school's admission method in full (what it asks of a family, and when), its programs with seats and who may apply, and — where NYC MySchools publishes them — seats vs. applicants per program with a competitiveness band that is Motley's own, not a DOE rating. Most middle schools, and all charter and private schools, have no applicant counts. The counts describe the whole applicant pool: never turn them into a family's odds, chance or percentage, even when asked for one. Needs a DBN; resolve a name with find-school first.
`get-admissions-methods`read-only	Get the full NYC school-admissions reference: every entry point from 3-K and Pre-K through Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, and the 8 middle/high admission methods (SHSAT, audition, screened, Ed-Opt, limited unscreened, unscreened, zoned, charter lottery) — each with its typical application window. The methods carry a live program count plus a special_badge naming any extra ask beyond the standard application (an audition, a test, an open-house sign-in), null when there is none; optional band/governance filters narrow the count. Knowledge only.
`get-admissions-timeline`read-only	Use this when a family asks what's coming for their child — which NYC school applications (3-K, Pre-K, Kindergarten, Gifted & Talented, middle school, high school) they'll make, and when. Pass each child's current grade, or an age (0–5) for a child not in school yet. Returns every transition in the next two years with the city's published dates where it has announced them, and the typical window where it hasn't. Never present a typical window as a date.
`get-comparable`read-only	Find neighborhoods most similar to a given one based on a 9-dimension score vector (family density, wealth, education, safety, transit, etc.). Returns similarity scores.
`get-neighborhood`read-only	Get full details for a single NYC neighborhood including demographics, raw 0-100 scores, location, and a family-readable interpretation (labeled score bands + cached editorial blurbs). Use the nta_code from search-neighborhoods.
`get-neighborhood-summary`read-only	Get a decision-ready, family-readable summary of one NYC neighborhood: a one-paragraph fit verdict, what stands out and what to weigh among its Family Fit scores (`tradeoffs`), labeled score bands (e.g. 'Peace of Mind: strong (78/100)'), and cached editorial blurbs — with raw scores still available, weekday-morning transit minutes to the city's main job centers, and a link to the neighborhood's Motley page. The interpretation-first front door; start here when a family wants an answer, not a data dump. A non-residential area (park, cemetery, airport, institution) isn't scored, and the summary says so.
`get-resources`read-only	Get family resource counts for a neighborhood: recreation centers, playgrounds, libraries, hospitals, farmers markets, ADA subway stations.
`get-safety`read-only	Get safety and health environment indicators for a neighborhood: crime complaints, collisions, HPD violations, air quality, lead levels, asthma rates — plus a family-readable interpretation of the Peace of Mind and Air & Child Health scores.
`get-schools`read-only	Get schools within a neighborhood — public, charter, and private. Includes quality ratings, grade levels, contact info. Use count_only for a quick summary, or limit/offset to page the full list (the response reports total/returned).
`get-zoned-school`read-only	Use this when a family asks which elementary school is zoned for a specific NYC address, such as an apartment or building they name. NYC draws school zones building by building, so pass the street address exactly as they typed it — building number and street, ideally with the borough — never the device's location. Returns the zoned K-5 school, the neighborhood, and how zoned admission works; some areas, like all of District 1, have no zoned school.
`rank-neighborhoods`read-only	Rank NYC's residential neighborhoods by what a family cares about — the same ranking as Best fit on motley.nyc. Pass ranked priority words, most important first: families, schools, affordability, character, getting-around, safety, air-and-health (and synonyms such as crime, rent, transit, commute, kids), plus two factors — parks or playgrounds (the share of homes within a 10-minute walk of an NYC Parks playground) and diversity (how evenly residents spread across five census groups). Or pass per-metric weights for the seven scores. Optionally scope to one borough. Returns the top neighborhoods with a fit score and the score breakdown, which factors counted, any priority words we don't measure (relay them — they added nothing), and a best_fit_url that opens the same ranking on motley.nyc. A deterministic weighted sort over neighborhood-level data, not a per-child school match.
`search-neighborhoods`read-only	Search and filter NYC neighborhoods by borough or name. Returns NTA codes, names, boroughs, and centroid coordinates.

Schemas: list_tools.

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Official server.json

{
  "name": "nyc.motley/mcp",
  "title": "Motley — NYC Neighborhoods, Schools & Admissions",
  "$schema": "https://static.modelcontextprotocol.io/schemas/2025-12-11/server.schema.json",
  "remotes": [
    {
      "url": "https://mcp.motley.nyc/mcp",
      "type": "streamable-http"
    }
  ],
  "version": "0.5.0",
  "websiteUrl": "https://motley.nyc/mcp",
  "description": "Find, compare, and rank NYC neighborhoods and schools, plus how NYC school admissions works."
}