Close Knit MCP Server

Close Knit MCP server

Close Knit gives AI assistants evidence about neighbourhoods and homes in England, with London in depth, to help people choose where to live. It is a remote MCP server: recorded sale prices, rents, crime, schools, flood risk, commute times, noise and more, from official open data. Every tool answer is an evidence envelope with a value, a confidence, the evidence[] behind it, its sources[] (with licence) and caveats[]. Every neighbourhood and local authority in England is covered; London adds address-level sale history, door-to-door TfL commute times and London-only layers. Ranks and percentiles compare an area with its own region (rankScope names it). It is free, with no account or sign-in. Website: https://getcloseknit.com · Setup for every assistant: https://getcloseknit.com/agents.

https://getcloseknit.com/mcp

• Transport: Streamable HTTP
• Authentication: none (no account, no OAuth, no API key)
• MCP Registry name: com.getcloseknit/close-knit

Tools

Add Close Knit to your assistant

Claude (claude.ai)

1. Open Customize > Connectors.
2. Click + Add, then Add custom connector.
3. Name: Close Knit. Remote MCP server URL: https://getcloseknit.com/mcp. Click Continue.
4. Under Authentication, choose no sign in, then click Add.
5. In a chat, click + at the lower left, choose Connectors and turn Close Knit on.

On Team and Enterprise plans an owner adds it under Organization settings > Connectors. Free plans allow one custom connector.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http close-knit https://getcloseknit.com/mcp

Codex

Add to ~/.codex/config.toml and restart Codex:

[mcp_servers.close_knit]
url = "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"

ChatGPT

1. Open Plugins at chatgpt.com/plugins.
2. Select the plus button, then Add custom MCP server.
3. Name: Close Knit. Under Connection, Server URL: https://getcloseknit.com/mcp.
4. Authentication: No authentication.
5. Review the warning, select I understand and want to continue, then Create as a plugin.
6. Install the plugin, then type @ in the prompt box and select Close Knit.

Custom MCP servers are available on ChatGPT web; which plans and workspaces allow them depends on your account and workspace settings.

Gemini CLI

gemini extensions install https://github.com/bmsdave/close-knit-mcp

This repository is a Gemini CLI extension: gemini-extension.json connects the remote server and GEMINI.md gives the model short guidance. Restart Gemini CLI after installing.

Gemini app

1. At gemini.google.com, click Settings, then Connected Apps.
2. Under Custom apps, click Add a custom app.
3. Enter https://getcloseknit.com/mcp and click Next, then follow the on-screen steps.
4. In a prompt, type @ and select Close Knit.

Google currently limits custom apps to people aged 18 or over in the US, signed in with a personal Google Account, with Keep Activity on.

Cursor

The same install link in Cursor's own format:

cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=close-knit&config=eyJ1cmwiOiJodHRwczovL2dldGNsb3Nla25pdC5jb20vbWNwIn0%3D

Or add it to mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "close-knit": {
      "url": "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

VS Code

Or run MCP: Add Server from the Command Palette, choose HTTP, and enter https://getcloseknit.com/mcp. In .vscode/mcp.json:

{
  "servers": {
    "close-knit": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Perplexity

1. Open Plugins in the sidebar (or Customize > Connectors).
2. Select Add custom, then Connector, then Add MCP connector, and choose Remote.
3. Name: Close Knit. MCP Server URL: https://getcloseknit.com/mcp.
4. Authentication: None. Transport: Streamable HTTP.
5. Tick the acknowledgement box, click Add, then click the connector card to enable it.

Mistral Le Chat

1. Open the Connectors page.
2. Click + Add Connector and switch to the Custom MCP Connector tab.
3. Connector name: closeknit. Server URL: https://getcloseknit.com/mcp.
4. Click Connect. No authentication is needed.

Adding a connector needs an administrator; on Free, Pro and Student plans the account owner is the administrator.

Grok

1. Go to grok.com/connectors.
2. Click New Connector, then select Custom.
3. Enter https://getcloseknit.com/mcp.

On Business and Enterprise plans a team admin adds connectors first.

Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

In the Cascade panel, open the ... menu, and in the MCPs section click Open MCP config file. Add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "close-knit": {
      "serverUrl": "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Save the file.

Goose

Desktop: open Extensions in the sidebar, click Add custom extension, choose the Streamable HTTP type and enter https://getcloseknit.com/mcp.

CLI: run goose configure, choose Add Extension, then Remote Extension (Streamable HTTP), and enter the URL. For a single session:

goose session --with-streamable-http-extension "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"

LM Studio

Or open the Program tab in the right-hand sidebar, click Install > Edit mcp.json, and add:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "close-knit": {
      "url": "https://getcloseknit.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Example answers

Answers from the live server, October 2026. Figures change with each data release.

"How much crime is there around Clapham Junction?" search_areas finds the neighbourhood (Wandsworth 012A, SW11) and get_area_metric(crime) answers: 74.4 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the 12 months to August 2026, a higher rate than 58% of London's neighbourhoods and 65% of England's; the largest categories are violence and sexual offences and anti-social behaviour. Source: police.uk street crime, Open Government Licence v3.0. Confidence high (observed, not modelled).

"Where in the North West are homes cheapest per square metre?" rank_areas_by_metric with region: "North West" puts three Blackpool neighbourhoods first at £970/m², tied. Confidence medium: they had too few sales of their own, so the figure is their MSOA's (quality: "fallback"). Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid with EPC floor areas.

"Help me find a 2-bed flat to buy in London under £600k, within 30 minutes of King's Cross." search_places resolves King's Cross, find_areas returns a ranked shortlist with each area's standing, what it meets ("4 of 5"), its commute and ballpark price, and an "Open in Close Knit" link to the same search on the map; get_listing_search_links then opens pre-filtered searches on the property portals.

Every tool, with its full input schema, is also listed in the server card: https://getcloseknit.com/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json.

Data and licences

The answers come from official open data, mostly under the Open Government Licence v3.0: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data and UK House Price Index, ONS Census 2021 and other ONS statistics, police.uk street crime, Ofsted and Department for Education school data, Environment Agency flood risk, Defra noise maps, Ofcom broadband coverage, MHCLG deprivation (IMD 2025) and planning data, Ordnance Survey OpenData, Transport for London open data ("Powered by TfL Open Data") and OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0). Each answer lists its own sources and licences in sources[]; keep those attributions when you reuse the data.

The MIT licence in this repository covers the files in this repository only. The data served by the MCP server keeps its own licences.

Privacy

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Licence

MIT