MCP server

Oravan Official

org.oravan/mcp

Checked 26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC · Connected to it and listed its tools

Nonpartisan U.S. Congress data: bill decodes, rep lookup, bilingual EN/ES, read-only, no accounts.

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At a glance

Type

MCP server

Publisher

oravan.org (verified by the MCP Registry)

Status

Working at last check

Tools

5

Token cost

About 1,711 tokens per request

Sets up in

Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code, Antigravity, ChatGPT, OpenAI API, Grok

Last checked

26 Oct 2026, 08:29 UTC

Connect it to your agent

Add to CursorAdd to VS CodeVS Code Insiders

Opens the app, which shows the server and asks you to confirm. For other apps, copy the setup below.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http oravan https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, and paste the URL.

Codex (config.toml)

[mcp_servers.oravan]
url = "https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"

Gemini CLI

{"mcpServers":{"oravan":{"httpUrl":"https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"}}}

Cursor

{"mcpServers":{"oravan":{"url":"https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"}}}

VS Code

{"servers":{"oravan":{"type":"http","url":"https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"}}}

Antigravity

agy mcp add oravan https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp

ChatGPT

Settings → Apps & Connectors → Advanced settings: turn on Developer mode, then Create a connector and paste the URL. Which plans can do this varies.

OpenAI API (Responses tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"oravan","server_url":"https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp","require_approval":"always"}

Grok (xAI API tools)

{"type":"mcp","server_label":"oravan","server_url":"https://oravan.org/api/mcp/mcp"}

Tools

• get_bill ~422 tokens
  Get the full plain-language decode of a federal bill by slug (e.g. "hr-2701-119") or citation (e.g. "H.R. 2701" - resolves to the most recent Congress on a match). Returns the AI-generated summary (headline, tl;dr, what/who/why/cost - automatically checked before publish and clearly labeled when pre
• get_representative ~158 tokens
  Get full details for one member of Congress by bioguide ID (e.g. "W000797"), plus their 5 most recently active sponsored bills. Facts only: no scorecards, ratings, or vote grades.
• lookup_representatives ~334 tokens
  Look up a person's U.S. House member and two Senators by 5-digit ZIP code. Returns each member's name, party, phone, official website, portrait URL, and district office phone numbers - the number a constituent should actually call. Some ZIP codes span more than one congressional district (needs_addr
• search_bills ~442 tokens
  Search Oravan's bilingual federal bill corpus by free-text query, issue topic, status, or active-only. Returns short teasers (headline, status, decision_state, urgency) for matching bills, most urgent first. The urgency_score is ranked from status and recency alone; decision_state says whether a dec
• whats_moving ~355 tokens
  What's moving in Congress recently: active, plain-language-decoded bills that cleared Oravan's 'act now' urgency bar within the last N days (default 7), optionally filtered by topic. Returns an honest empty list with quiet_week: true when nothing has cleared the bar - this tool never pads the list t

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