What is American Default Research?
American Default Research is a Model Context Protocol server that exposes 96 economic distress indicators, the American Distress Index (ADI) composite score, and county-level distress scores across all 3,144 U.S. counties to MCP-compatible AI agents. It is designed for AI agents that need to retrieve structured economic distress data.
How to use American Default Research?
Point any MCP-compatible client at the hosted streamable-HTTP endpoint at https://mcp.americandefault.org/mcp. For Claude Desktop, add the endpoint URL to claude_desktop_config.json. The server exposes five tools: get_indicator, get_county_scorecard, get_adi_composite, search_indicators, and get_cross_correlations. A local install is possible for self-hosting but requires data files not included in the repo.
Key features of American Default Research
- Exposes 5 tools for retrieving distress data, ADI, and correlations.
- Data covers all 3,144 U.S. counties with 96 economic indicators.
- Each response includes canonical citations in APA, MLA, Chicago, and news-copy formats.
- Schema versioning ensures backward compatibility (v1 tools stay live).
- Built-in rate limiting for the HTTP transport (per-minute burst and per-hour sustained).
- Supports both stdio (for local clients) and streamable-HTTP transports.
Use cases of American Default Research
- An AI agent retrieves the latest American Distress Index composite score using
get_adi_composite.
- A financial analyst's assistant fetches a county-level distress scorecard for a given FIPS code.
- A researcher searches for economic indicators by keyword (e.g., "mortgage delinquency") via
search_indicators.
- An agent analyzes leading/lagging relationships between two indicators via
get_cross_correlations.
- A policy brief generator automatically cites each data point with pre-formatted APA citations.
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