Developers

What it is

The records on this site as read-only JSON and as a remote MCP server. Oregon, California and Massachusetts healthcare transaction reviews; Coverage lists what is tracked and what was checked and not tracked. Every record is a public agency record in the agency's own words, with source_url (the agency page it was read from) and the day DocketTrail observed it. Not legal advice.

Connect in Claude

Add a custom connector and give it this address. No key, no sign-in. It reads at the free limits below.

https://dockettrail.com/mcp

Connect with a key

For clients that send headers. A founding key is shown on your key page after you start a founding seat.

claude mcp add --transport http dockettrail https://dockettrail.com/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY"

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dockettrail": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://dockettrail.com/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

A client that takes only an address can send the key as ?key=. Addresses are logged in more places than headers are, so use the header where you can.

MCP tools

• search_proceedings: proceedings, filtered by state and status; a key adds org, agency, q and since.
• get_proceeding: one transaction by slug, with the full trail, documents and changes.
• list_changes: what changed, newest first, by state and kind; a key adds the other filters and the full history.
• find_organization: an organization by name or slug, with its transactions and the names it files under.

The same data, limits and key rules as the REST API.

REST

Read-only JSON under /api/v1. Add -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" or ?key= for a founding key.

Proceedings

curl "https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/proceedings?state=OR&status=OPEN"

One transaction

curl https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/proceedings/SLUG

SLUG is a transaction_slug from the list, the last part of a /transactions/ address.

Organizations

curl "https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/organizations?name=health"

https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/organizations/SLUG opens one.

Changes

curl "https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/changes?state=MA&kind=STATUS_CHANGED"

With a key

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_KEY" \
  "https://dockettrail.com/api/v1/changes?agency=AGENCY_SLUG&since=2026-10-01"

Lists take page and per_page. since is a day, yyyy-mm-dd (UTC), on which DocketTrail observed a change. An agency slug is the agency's name, lower-case and hyphenated; an organization slug is on its page.

Free and founding

A filter that needs a key and is sent without one answers 403 with the address of Pricing. A key that does not verify, or whose seat has ended, answers 401. Over the limit answers 429 with Retry-After. Headers X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining and X-RateLimit-Window say where a caller stands.

Registry

Listed in the official MCP Registry as com.dockettrail/dockettrail; the namespace is proven by a file served from this domain.