INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

search_awards

Search federal contract awards (USAspending, $10M+) by recipient, ticker, awarding agency, keyword, date range or minimum amount.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for search_awards and invoke it with your own arguments.

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Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.hillsignal]
url = "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hillsignal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: hillsignal
Remote MCP URL: https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "hillsignal": {
      "url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "hillsignal": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "hillsignal",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.hillsignal.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

resolve_entity — Map an organization name (a contract recipient, a subsidiary, a PAC sponsor, a Form D issuer) to its public-company ticker.
get_entity — One company in the federal record: contracts won, PACs, patents, private raises, members of Congress who hold board seats there, insider trades, and its connections graph.
award_totals — Aggregate every matching federal award (same filters as search_awards) into totals per recipient, per resolved ticker, or per awarding agency: award count, total dollars, share, first and last award, largest award.
search_opportunities — Search SAM.
congressional_trades — Stock trades disclosed by members of Congress (House and Senate Periodic Transaction Reports), by member name, ticker, transaction type or date.
get_politician — A member of Congress: committees, board seats and other positions from annual Financial Disclosures (with resolved tickers), recent stock trades, and top PAC contributors from FEC data.
insider_trades — SEC Form 4 insider transactions by ticker or insider name; filter to buys or sells, minimum value, date.
search_bills — Full-text search over bills, contract awards and other government events with their analysed sector and ticker exposure.