# companies-house-mcp

> MCP server for the UK Companies House RESTful API

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/companies-house-mcp-2/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://docs.release.art/ch-api/
- repository: https://github.com/release-art/ch-api/
- version: 0.0.6
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:companies-house-mcp

### Description (declared)

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# Companies House MCP Server

A [Model Context Protocol](https://modelcontextprotocol.io/) server that exposes the UK [Companies House register](https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/) to LLM clients as a set of read-only tools. Built on [FastMCP v3](https://gofastmcp.com/) and the [`ch-api`](https://github.com/release-art/ch-api) async client.

## Overview

- **22 read-only tools** across five domains: search, companies, officers, PSCs (persons with significant control), and filings.
- **Two transports**: HTTP (Starlette/uvicorn) for remote MCP clients, and stdio for local integrations.
- **OAuth2 via Auth0**, with three modes:
  - `none` — no authentication (local dev / trusted-ingress only).
  - `remote` — JWT verification only (the MCP server trusts an upstream Auth0 tenant).
  - `proxy` — full OAuth proxy with dynamic client registration; tokens are persisted to Azure Blob Storage, encrypted with Fernet.
- **Scope-based authorization**: tools tagged `ch_api:read` require the `ch-api:read` scope in the access token. Enforcement is per-tool, so `initialize` and `tools/list` remain reachable by unauthenticated clients.
- **Structured responses**: Pydantic models synthesised by reflection from `ch-api` types. Every response carries a typed `refs` sub-object holding the resource IDs (company number, charge id, document id, …) extracted from the upstream `links` block — chain tool calls by feeding those IDs straight into the next tool's input.

## Tools

| Module | Tools |
|--------|-------|
| [`search.py`](src/ch_mcp/server/search.py) | …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- security.identity (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/companies-house-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T12:27:21.032Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/companies-house-mcp-2/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/companies-house-mcp-2 · ARD identifier urn:air::server:companies-house-mcp-2