io.github.pipeworx-io/ia-dmv (MCP Server)

The MCP server io.github.pipeworx-io/ia-dmv provides Model Context Protocol access to information about Iowa DOT driver license stations, including station hours, CDL availability, and queue cameras.

🛠️ Key Features

Driver license station hours
CDL availability
Queue camera data

🚀 Use Cases

Retrieve Iowa DOT driver license station details by location
Check whether a station supports CDL services
Access queue camera information for station monitoring

⚡ Developer Benefits

MCP-compatible interface for Model Context Protocol workflows
Topic-aligned integration with mcp, model-context-protocol, and mcp-server tooling

⚠️ Limitations

Available source details only describe station hours, CDL availability, and queue cameras; no other tools, parameters, or capabilities are documented here.

@pipeworx/ia-dmv

Iowa DOT Motor Vehicle Division driver license stations — hours, CDL testing, and the live queue cameras Iowa points at its own waiting rooms. Keyless.

Why Iowa gets its own pack

This came out of splitting a single multiplexed us-dmv tool into one pack per state agency. Iowa's motor-vehicle surface is a small, unusually rich station layer: 18 stations, but each one ships live camera image URLs and a wait-time widget, which no other state publishes. Nothing about that shape generalises across a union schema, so Iowa gets its own tool.

Tools

Tool	What it returns
`ia_dmv_driver_license_stations`	Address, per-day hours, phone, coordinates, CDL testing flag, station page, wait-time widget URL and up to four live queue-camera image URLs

Filters: city, name, cdl_only, limit.

The distinctive field

url_cam1..url_cam4 are live JPEG snapshots of the station lobby, refreshed by Iowa DOT — e.g. https://mvdphotos.iowadot.gov/MasonCityDL.jpg. Returned as queue_camera_urls, they let a caller see the queue rather than guess at it. wait_times_url is Iowa's own per-station wait widget. 17 of the 18 stations do CDL testing.

Auth

None. The layer is a public ArcGIS Online feature service owned by Iowa DOT.

Gotchas worth knowing

The upstream state column is dirty. It contains the literal ", IA" — with a leading comma — on every row. It is not passed through; state is normalised to IA.
No latitude/longitude columns exist on this layer, so the query requests WGS84 geometry (outSR=4326) and reads coordinates from there.
A second camera slot is often a "closed" placeholder. Mason City's url_cam4 points at MasonCityClosed.jpg. All non-empty slots are returned as published rather than guessed at.
Hours list open days only. hours_* carries the literal Closed for the rest; a day absent from hours is a closed day.
There is no county column. Iowa DOT keys these stations by city. county is null by design; filter by city, or use the coordinates.
18 stations for the whole state, so most Iowa towns have none. The not-found hint says so and points the caller at the full list plus coordinates rather than implying a data gap.

What is not buildable for Iowa today

Iowa's richest motor-vehicle data — county-level vehicle registrations and fleet summaries — lives on data.iowa.gov, which migrated off Socrata. Every old API path (/resource/<id>.json, /api/views/...) now answers with an HTML 404 page from the new portal front end rather than JSON, so a registration tool would be building on a dead endpoint. Recheck when the new Iowa Data Hub exposes an API; until then this pack is stations only, deliberately.

Data source

Iowa DOT ArcGIS DLSv2_View/FeatureServer/0 — verified live 2026-07-30

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ia-dmv": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/ia-dmv/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway for access to all 1392+ data sources:

json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English:

code

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Iowa DOT Driver Licensing data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

License

MIT

question	string	required	Your question or request in natural language. Accepts query, q, prompt, text, input as aliases.
query	string	optional	Alias for question.
q	string	optional	Alias for question.
prompt	string	optional	Alias for question.
text	string	optional	Alias for question.
input	string	optional	Alias for question.

question	string	required	Your question or request in natural language. Accepts query, q, prompt, text, input as aliases.
query	string	optional	Alias for question.
q	string	optional	Alias for question.
prompt	string	optional	Alias for question.
text	string	optional	Alias for question.
input	string	optional	Alias for question.

question	string	required	Your question in natural language. Accepts query, q, prompt, text, input as aliases.
query	string	optional	Alias for question.
q	string	optional	Alias for question.
prompt	string	optional	Alias for question.
text	string	optional	Alias for question.
input	string	optional	Alias for question.

text	string	required	The document text to search inside (max ~200K chars).
query	string	required	Natural-language query — what passages do you want? E.g. "supply-chain risk", "fiscal year 2024 revenue", "drug interactions with warfarin".
limit	number	optional	Max passages to return (1-20, default 5).

question	string	required	The research question, in natural language. Broad/multi-part is fine — decomposition is the point.
depth	string	optional	How many facets to research in parallel: quick=3 (single hop), standard=5 (default; adds a gap-recovery hop that re-angles unanswered facets + a contradictions[] scan across findings), thorough=8 (paid; adds a full iterative hop that chases leads + recovers gaps, plus the contradictions[] scan).

type	string	required	Entity type: "company" or "drug".
value	string	required	For company: ticker (AAPL), CIK (0000320193), or name. For drug: brand or generic name (e.g., "ozempic", "metformin").

claim	string	required	Natural-language factual claim, e.g., "Apple's FY2024 revenue was $400 billion" or "Microsoft made about $100B in profit last year".
tolerance_pct	number	optional	Max percent deviation still graded approximately_correct (0.5–50). Overrides the tolerance implied by the claim wording — set 1–2 for hallucination detection where any material error must be refuted. Default: implied by wording, capped at 5.

package	string	required	npm package name. Scoped packages (e.g. "@types/node") are accepted.
version	string	optional	Specific version to check (e.g., "18.3.1"). Defaults to the latest published version when omitted.

market	string	required	Polymarket slug ("will-bitcoin-hit-150k-by-june-30-2026"), full URL ("https://polymarket.com/event/..."), or question text ("Will Bitcoin hit $150k by June 30?")
depth	string	optional	quick = 2-3 evidence sources, thorough = full fan-out. Default thorough.
include_raw	boolean	optional	Default false. When false (recommended), FRED/FDA/GDELT/Federal-Register evidence is summarized to the few fields agents actually use — keeps responses under ~20KB. Pass true to get full upstream payloads (50KB-500KB) when you need to recompute deltas, cite specific observations, or post-process.

event	string	optional	Single-event mode (use this if you know the specific Polymarket event): event slug like "fed-decision-may-2026" or "when-will-bitcoin-hit-150k". Full Polymarket URLs also accepted.
topic	string	optional	Cross-event mode (use this if you want to scan related events across the platform): a topic or seed question like "Fed rate decision" or "Strait of Hormuz traffic returns to normal". Tool searches Polymarket for related events and checks monotonicity across them.

window	string	optional	Polymarket volume window to filter markets. Default 1wk.
limit	number	optional	Top N edges to return after ranking. Default 10, max 25.
min_edge_pp	number	optional	Minimum \|edge\| in percentage points to include (default 0.5). Edge is evaluated NET of slippage.
slippage_pp	number	optional	Assumed execution slippage in percentage points per leg (default 0.3). Subtracted from raw \|edge\| before ranking and Kelly sizing. Polymarket has zero trading fees as of 2024 but bid/ask + thin depth typically eats 20-50bp per trade. Bump for very thin partitions; drop to 0 if you have a smarter fill model.
category_filter	string	optional	Comma-separated list to restrict the output: "model_driven" (crypto_price + news_momentum), "structural_arbitrage" (partition_overround), "concentrated_longshot". Combine like "model_driven,structural_arbitrage". Default: all.
min_kelly	number	optional	Minimum half-Kelly fraction (as decimal, e.g. 0.005 = 0.5% of bankroll) to include single-leg opportunities. Default 0 (no filter). Skips opportunities that are too small to bet sensibly even if the edge is large.
min_partition_leg_kelly	number	optional	Minimum BEST per-leg half-Kelly fraction across a partition_overround opportunity's top_legs (or longshot_basket legs). Default 0 (no filter). Partition arbs always return kelly_fraction_half=0 at the parent level by design (basket trades don't compose to single-leg Kelly), so min_kelly never filters them — this knob applies to the per-leg Kelly inside top_legs instead. Use to suppress thin partitions whose individual leg edges aren't worth the per-leg slippage cost.
min_liquidity	number	optional	Tradeable-edge filter. Minimum $ liquidity on the representative market (or for partition_overround, on at least one top_leg). Default 0 (no filter). Set to 5000 to drop thin-book opportunities where executing the edge would walk the book past breakeven.
max_spread_pp	number	optional	Tradeable-edge filter. Maximum bid/ask spread in percentage points on the representative market. Default null (no filter). Set to 2 to require tight books — anything wider eats most plausible edges.

days	number	optional	Lookback in days (default 14, clamp 2-30).
window	string	optional	Which polymarket_edges window family to read snapshots for: 24hr \| 1wk \| 1mo (default 1wk).

url	string	required	Full URL of the site to summarize, e.g. "https://example.com" or a specific landing page.
max_links	number	optional	Maximum number of link entries to include (default 25, max 50).

entity	string	required	The thing to ask about. Brand/business name, product name, person, or topic. E.g. "Pipeworx", "OpenInvoice", "Acme Corp pricing".
context	string	optional	Optional: a phrase locating the entity (e.g. "Boston restaurant", "B2B SaaS"). Helps disambiguate common names.
models	array	optional	Which models to probe. Supported: "workers-ai" (free default), "anthropic" (requires _apiKey). Omit for just workers-ai.
_apiKey	string	optional	Optional Anthropic API key (sk-ant-...) — only needed if "anthropic" is in models. Passed straight through to api.anthropic.com.

entities	array	required	Array of 2-8 entities to compare (brand/business/product names). First entry treated as the "subject" for narrative; rest are competitors.
context	string	optional	Optional shared context applied to every probe (e.g. "B2B SaaS", "Boston restaurant"). Disambiguates common names.
models	array	optional	Which models to probe. Supported: "workers-ai" (free default), "anthropic" (requires _apiKey). Omit for just workers-ai.
_apiKey	string	optional	Optional Anthropic API key — only if "anthropic" is in models. Passed to api.anthropic.com per probe.

type	string	required	Subscription type.
params	object	required	Type-specific filter. sec_8k: {ticker:"AAPL", items?:["5.02","1.01"]}. polymarket_edge: {topic:"fed", min_spread_bps?:500}. fred_series: {series_id:"UNRATE"}. patent_grant: {applicant:"Apple Inc."}. clinical_trial: {sponsor?:"Pfizer", condition?:"lung cancer", phase?:"PHASE3"} (sponsor or condition required).
delivery	object	optional	Optional delivery channels in addition to the always-on persistent feed. {email:"you@x.com"} sends a templated alert per fired event. {sms:"+15551234567"} sends an SMS per event — must match the verified phone on the caller's account (verify at https://pipeworx.io/account first; 10/day cap). {webhook:"https://..."} POSTs each event JSON to your endpoint, HMAC-signed — the response includes delivery.webhook_secret (whsec_…) ONCE; verify X-Pipeworx-Signature = sha256 HMAC of "<X-Pipeworx-Timestamp>.<raw body>". Auto-disabled after 10 consecutive failing runs.

type	string	required	Entity type. Only "company" supported today.
value	string	required	Ticker (e.g., "AAPL") or zero-padded CIK (e.g., "0000320193").
since	string	required	Window start — ISO date ("2026-04-01") or relative ("7d", "30d", "3m", "1y"). Use "30d" or "1m" for typical monitoring.

topic	string	optional	Pre-mapped: fed \| btc \| cpi \| gdp \| sp500 \| recession \| next_pope \| next_uk_pm \| next_israel_pm \| 2028_president
kalshi_event_ticker	string	optional	Explicit Kalshi event ticker, e.g. "KXFED-26OCT". Overrides the topic-mapped Kalshi side.
polymarket_event_slug	string	optional	Explicit Polymarket event slug, e.g. "fed-decision-in-june-825". Overrides the topic-mapped Polymarket side.

market	string	optional	Single-market mode: market slug or full polymarket.com URL.
event	string	optional	Basket mode: event slug or full polymarket.com URL — checks every leg of the partition.
side	string	optional	Single-market: buy_yes \| sell_yes \| buy_no \| sell_no (default buy_yes). Basket: sell_yes \| buy_yes (default auto — sell if partition sum > 1, buy if < 1).
size_usd	number	optional	Single-market: USD to spend (buys) or target proceeds (sells). Basket: settlement notional — shares per leg, each paying $1 at resolution. Default 1000, clamp 10–1,000,000.

key	string	required	Memory key (e.g., "subject_property", "target_ticker", "user_preference")
value	string	required	Value to store (any text — findings, addresses, preferences, notes)

city	string	optional	City name, matched as a substring, e.g. "Des Moines", "Mason City", "Cedar Rapids".
name	string	optional	Station-name substring, e.g. "Mason City", "Ankeny".
cdl_only	boolean \| string	optional	Set true to keep only stations that perform commercial driver license (CDL) testing.
limit	number \| string	optional	Max stations to return (default 20, max 50).

io.github.pipeworx-io/ia-dmv (MCP Server)

🛠️ Key Features

🚀 Use Cases

⚡ Developer Benefits

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