Alpaca Trading API integration for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Open Country: USDA Section 538 and 515 data is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
What it does
USDA rural eligibility, Section 538 income limits, 538 loans and lenders, 515 rentals.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http open-country-usda-section-538-and-515-data-mcp https://usda538.loans/mcp
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# get_538_income_limits, list_538_loans, get_538_lender_table and 2 more
Open Country: USDA Section 538 and 515 data costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine and nothing runs on ours: this server answers at its publisher’s own address, and what you install is the connection straight to it.
This is a public server: it answers at its publisher’s own address and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The transport below is http, as the publisher's own manifest declares it.
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http open-country-usda-section-538-and-515-data-mcp https://usda538.loans/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
One config entry pointing straight at the publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path, and nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
5 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
FY2026 USDA Section 538 income limits (115% of area median income, 1 to 8 persons, effective July 13, 2026) for a county or USDA area in one state, with the per-unit rent cap (30% of the limit / 12) and the approximate project-average cap. Without county or area, lists every area in the state, paged.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | string | yes | Two-letter state code, e.g. IA. |
| county | string | no | County or parish name, e.g. "Jones" or "Jones County". Matched to a USDA area through this site's OMB 2023 metro delineation match. |
| area | string | no | USDA area name or its start, e.g. "Des Moines" or "Iowa County, IA". |
| household_size | integer | no | Household size used for the rent caps (default 4). |
| limit | integer | no | How many rows to return (1 to 50, default 10). |
| offset | integer | no | Rows to skip, for paging (default 0). |
USDA's public Section 538 guaranteed loans in one state (file as of October 19, 2026): count, total amount, apartments, tax credit deals, median loan-to-cost and lenders, then loan rows (project, city, lender, closing date, amount, loan-to-cost, units, rents) newest first, paged and filterable by lender or fiscal year.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | string | yes | Two-letter state code, e.g. CA. |
| lender | string | no | Only loans whose lender name contains this text, e.g. "Bonneville". |
| min_fiscal_year | integer | no | Only loans obligated in this USDA fiscal year or later. |
| limit | integer | no | How many rows to return (1 to 50, default 10). |
| offset | integer | no | Rows to skip, for paging (default 0). |
National Section 538 lender table from USDA's public file (as of October 19, 2026): each lender's loan count, total loan amount and latest fiscal year, ranked by loan count, plus the total portfolio and how many loans each state has. Paged.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| limit | integer | no | How many rows to return (1 to 50, default 10). |
| offset | integer | no | Rows to skip, for paging (default 0). |
Active USDA Section 515 rural rental and 514 farm labor housing properties in one county from USDA's file (as of October 19, 2026): name, address, housing type, bedroom mix, units, rental assistance units, recorded vacancies, accessible units, opening year, restriction end date and management company. Optional town filter; paged.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| state | string | yes | Two-letter state code, e.g. IA. |
| county | string | yes | County or parish name, e.g. "Jones" or "Jones County". |
| city | string | no | Only properties in this town, e.g. "Anamosa". |
| limit | integer | no | How many rows to return (1 to 50, default 10). |
| offset | integer | no | Rows to skip, for paging (default 0). |
Sizes a USDA Section 538 loan the way the site's loan sizer does: the 90% (for-profit) or 97% (nonprofit or public) cap on the lower of cost or value against the DSCR cap (1.15x default), with NOI, debt service, loan-to-cost and the 2026 guarantee fees. Arithmetic on your inputs, not a quote.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| units | integer | yes | Apartment units (538 requires at least 5). |
| rent_per_unit_month | number | yes | Average rent per unit per month in dollars. |
| opex_per_unit_year | number | yes | Operating expenses per unit per year incl. taxes, insurance, management and reserves. |
| total_development_cost | number | yes | Total development cost in dollars. |
| appraised_value | number | yes | Appraised value in dollars. |
| interest_rate_pct | number | yes | Your lender's quoted fixed rate in percent, e.g. 6.25. |
| amortization_years | integer | no | Amortization in years, 25 to 40 (default 40). |
| other_income_per_unit_month | number | no | Other income per unit per month (default 0). |
| vacancy_pct | number | no | Vacancy and collection loss on rent, percent (default 5). |
| dscr | number | no | Minimum DSCR (default 1.15; 1.11 for the first 200 preservation pilot loans). |
| borrower | string | no | for_profit = 90% leverage cap; nonprofit_or_public = 97%. |
| fee_category | string | no | standard = 65 bp initial / 35 bp annual; reduced = 60 / 25 (workforce, 515 preservation or Opportunity Zone). |
- Every tool — any call limit is its publisher’s, not ours
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Runs at its publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
Nothing here is billable: mcprush charges nothing to install Open Country: USDA Section 538 and 515 data or to call it, at any volume.
Two independent axes, because powerful and malicious are different questions. The grade is threat only. The capability level is blast radius, and it is never a penalty on the grade — it is priced as one subtract-only term in the score, where you can see it.
| Term | Level | What it prices | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| capability-exposure | minimal | capability blast radius (minimal) — client exposure if the model is manipulated | −0 |
| coverage-honesty | manifest | inspection depth (manifest) — how much of the target the scan could see | −4 |
What the scan could actually read
A grade is only as meaningful as its coverage, so the scanner publishes its own depth before it publishes its result.
The scan read each tool’s name, description, input schema and annotations exactly as the server listed them the last time it answered us; no code was reviewed. We ask the server again about once a month, and a list that changed is graded again.
The implementation source was not read — this reflects the declared tool metadata only.
Capability — what it could do if the model were manipulated
Tags derived from each tool’s schema and the implementation, not from what the tool calls itself. minimal is the level these add up to.
| Tool | Capability tags | Why the tag was assigned |
|---|---|---|
| get_538_income_limits | no tags | |
| list_538_loans | no tags | |
| get_538_lender_table | no tags | |
| find_usda_rural_rentals | no tags | |
| size_538_loan | no tags |
Toxic-flow graph
The lethal trifecta, checked as a graph rather than as a checklist: untrusted input, a sensitive source and an external sink have to meet before there is a path worth worrying about.
The public result for this release does not print the flow graph, so there is nothing to show here. That is not the same as "no paths were found": what the scan did read is above, under coverage.
Supply chain and provenance
This is the first scan of this surface here, so there is nothing yet to compare it against.
Every result on this tab comes from one deterministic pass over the published package — offline, rule by rule, and auditable line by line above. Same methodology version, same bytes, same score.
Release history
This is an address its publisher runs: which release it serves is theirs to choose, so there is nothing here to pin. The history below is for reading; the current release on file is 1.2026.1102.0.
No release note was published with this version.
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Any signed-in account that does not publish Open Country: USDA Section 538 and 515 data can review it, once — before installing it or after. A review from an account that has installed it is marked as one.
Nobody has reviewed this listing. The rating on the card is the mean of the reviews written here and nothing else, so there is no rating until somebody writes the first — which takes a signed-in account that does not publish it, and nothing else.