Nhtsa Vehicle Safety Mcp Server

Connects Claude to the NHTSA public APIs for vehicle safety research and consumer protection work. You get VIN decoding with partial wildcard support, recall campaign lookups with do-not-drive flags, crash test ratings from NCAP, consumer complaint search with component breakdowns, and defect investigation queries across ODI case types. The composite safety profile tool combines ratings, recalls, and complaint summaries in one shot, useful when evaluating used cars or answering customer questions. Investigation search caches the full ODI index on first query so follow-up searches run fast. Runs locally over stdio or points to the public hosted instance at nhtsa.caseyjhand.com. No API keys needed since NHTSA endpoints are open.