INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

ranked_check_licence

Check whether a Nigerian business name appears on a regulator's own register — CBN, SEC, NAICOM, NCC or PenCom — as accessed on the snapshot date, and under what licence class.

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LIVE ENDPOINT

https://ranked.ng/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for ranked_check_licence and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

ranked.ng

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.ranked]
url = "https://ranked.ng/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ranked": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ranked.ng/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: ranked
Remote MCP URL: https://ranked.ng/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ranked": {
      "url": "https://ranked.ng/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "ranked": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://ranked.ng/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "ranked",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://ranked.ng/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

ranked_find_business — Search Ranked's file-backed dataset of Nigerian-relevant businesses, institutions, websites and apps (6519 entries: 3860 on a regulator register, 1290 with domain/app-listing evidence, 1369 unverified candidates).
ranked_can_nigerian_pay — For a named product or service, return dated research on naira pricing, Nigerian-issued card acceptance, local rails, local entity, geo-restriction, possible workarounds and pages_to_verify.
ranked_compare — Compare 2-5 named products or services on Nigeria-usability: naira pricing, card acceptance, local entity, geo-restriction.
ranked_by_regulator — List the entries on a Nigerian regulator's register (CBN, SEC, NAICOM, NCC, PenCom) as accessed on the snapshot date, optionally filtered by licence-class text, in the register's own order (the regulator's order, not a ranking).
ranked_stats — Counts of what this server holds — file-backed dataset by evidence tier, kind and regulator with each register's access date; whether the live database is configured — plus the provenance rules.
ranked_rankings — Ranked's ORDERED list for a category in a Nigerian city — the one fact nobody else has — straight from the production database, top 25 at most.
ranked_place — One business listing from the production database, by slug (the tail of https://ranked.ng/place/<slug>) or by name + city.
ranked_hubs — The list pages an assistant can cite, with counts: kind="category" → https://ranked.ng/<category> hubs with the number of cities that have a published ranking with exact-category matches; kind="city" → https://ranked.ng/city/<slug> hubs with matching published categories; kind="state" → https://ranked.ng/state/<slug> hubs (only states with at least 25 operational listings); kind="data" → the regulator-register hubs, the operator-listed EV charging directory, their JSON feeds and the open-data index (file-backed, no database needed).