# ontario-data-mcp

> MCP server for searching, downloading, and analyzing datasets from Ontario open data portals (Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, Kitchener, Region of Waterloo)

Record `ontario-data-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/ontario-data-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/ontario-data-mcp
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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/ontario-data-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: A. Mathur
- homepage: https://github.com/sprine/ontario-data-mcp#readme
- repository: https://github.com/sprine/ontario-data-mcp/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- version: 0.2.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ckan, duckdb, kitchener, mcp, ontario, open-data, ottawa, toronto, waterloo
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:ontario-data-mcp

### Description (declared)

<!-- mcp-name: ontario-data-mcp -->

# ontario-data-mcp

> [!IMPORTANT]  
> **Beta:** This project is under active development. The data structure and tool interfaces may change.
> LLM-generated analysis may contain errors. Always verify critical findings against the returned source data.

This is an [MCP server](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) for discovering, downloading, querying, and analyzing datasets from Ontario's Open Data portals. It allows asking questions of the data in English (or Spanish, Chinese, French, etc).

It currently supports the Ontario, Toronto, Ottawa, Waterloo, Kitchener, and Region of Waterloo portals, and utilizes a shared [DuckDB](https://duckdb.org/) cache for fast SQL queries, statistical analysis, and geospatial operations.

## Contributing

Contributions welcome! To get started, see **Installation** below.

Found a bug? Have an idea? Discovered something interesting?
Open an issue here: https://github.com/sprine/ontario-data-mcp/issues

## Features
* `find` - search across supported Ontario open data portals
* `download` - retrieve and cache datasets
* `query` - run SQL, statistical, and geospatial analysis via DuckDB
* `validate` — verify that data claims are supported by query results
* A shared DuckDB cache for high-performance analytics

## Architecture

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    Client["AI Client<br/>(Claude Code · VS Code · etc.)"]

    subgraph Server["ontario-data-mcp (FastMCP)"]
        direction TB

        subgraph Tools["MCP Tools"]
            direction LR
            T1["Discovery"]
            T2["Metadata"]
            T3["Retrieval"]
            T4["Querying"]
            T5["Geospatial"]
            T6["Quality & Validation"]
        end

        PC["Portal Clients<br/>CKANClient · ArcGISHubClient"]
        Cache[("DuckDB Cache<br/>~/.cache/ontario-data/")]

        Tools -->|"fan out to all portals"| PC
        T3 & T5 -->|"download → store"| Cache
        T4 & T6 -->|"SQL queries"| Cache
    end

    subgraph P…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.version-control (0.779, derived)
- data.database (0.733, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/ontario-data-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T08:26:26.560Z)

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