Local Houston MCP

Your AI's local guide to Houston. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server giving Claude (and any MCP client) plain-English access to official Houston-area public data — no API keys, no logins.

License: Open source under Apache License 2.0 — free to use, modify, and build on, including commercially. Please keep the NOTICE attribution when you redistribute. Built by: Ed Neuhaus. Source: https://github.com/mindwear-capitian/local-houston-mcp Part of a family: local-city-mcp-template — the spec, the template, and the full list of cities built so far.

🚧 Early-stage. Two tools live today (weather alerts, school ratings). More Houston/Harris-area civic and property data planned — see CONTRIBUTING.md.

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Install

Add to your Claude Desktop config:

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "local-houston": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:mindwear-capitian/local-houston-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. No API keys required for any tool.

Claude Code

claude mcp add local-houston npx -y github:mindwear-capitian/local-houston-mcp

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Try it

• "Is there an active weather alert for Houston right now?"
• "What's the TEA rating for Houston ISD?"
• "Show me A-rated elementary schools in Harris county."

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Tools (2 live)

Tool	What it does
houston_nws_alerts	Active National Weather Service alerts (severe thunderstorm, tornado, flood, heat, freeze, fire weather) for a Houston location. Defaults to central Houston when no address given.
houston_tea_schools	Texas Education Agency school lookup — A-F accountability ratings + AskTED campus directory (statewide dataset). Search by campus, district, county, or city. Example districts: Houston ISD, Cypress-Fairbanks ISD, Katy ISD.
about	Version + capability summary.

Sources of Truth

Domain	Source
Weather alerts	National Weather Service (api.weather.gov)
School ratings	Texas Education Agency Statewide Accountability Ratings 2022-2023 + AskTED directory (data.texas.gov) — statewide dataset, same source used by local-austin-mcp
Geocoding	U.S. Census geocoder

Architecture

Node.js (ES modules), @modelcontextprotocol/sdk over stdio. Built from local-city-mcp-template — see that repo's STANDARD.md for the spec (hard rules, tool contract, testing bar, licensing pattern) this server follows. Every response includes a source_url.

Contact

Built by Ed Neuhaus. Contributions welcome — see CONTRIBUTING.md.