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Expat Living Italy

Sourced data on Italy's ~7,900 comuni for people relocating or retiring there.

Checks passed
13 / 22

1 failed · 8 not measured

Median response
1289 ms

Median of successful probes over 7 days

30-day uptime
Not measured

Share of countable probes over 30 days, including daily rollups. Auth challenges are excluded.

Discovered tools
12

Tool definitions returned by this server

Independent monitoring

Health & checks

Status history

Responded

The server completed its last measured handshake. This is an observation, not a guarantee.

Last checked
Check summary by test group
Test areaPassedFailedUnmeasured
ConnectionCan a client connect and discover tools?
500
Reliability & speedDoes it respond consistently and quickly?
004
Access & authenticationWhat is required to use this server?
102
Tool qualityAre the tool definitions usable by an agent?
400
Publisher identityCan the publisher be traced to its source?
312

Unmeasured means there is not enough evidence to decide. How these checks work

Inspect individual checks 22 recorded

Core

  • Pass
    Reachable

    Latest probe returned HTTP 200 in 1289 ms.

  • Pass
    Valid handshake

    protocolVersion 2025-11-25, serverInfo.name expatliving-data.

  • Pass
    Lists tools

    tools/list returned 12 tools.

  • Pass
    Current protocol

    Negotiated 2025-11-25. The bar is 2025-06-18 or newer.

  • Pass
    HTTPS

    The endpoint URL is https.

Performance

  • Not measured
    Fast (p50)

    Median latency 1289 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 1000 ms. Need at least 5 samples.

  • Not measured
    Consistent (p95)

    95th percentile 1289 ms over 1 samples in 7 days. The bar is 3000 ms. Need at least 20 samples.

  • Not measured
    Reliable (uptime)

    1 of 1 attempts returned a tool list in 30 days (100%). The bar is 99%. Need at least 30 samples.

  • Not measured
    Stable tool list

    Fewer than two successful probes in 30 days, so tool-list stability is not measured.

Access

  • Pass
    Open access

    tools/list succeeded with no credential, and the record declares none.

  • Not measured
    Standard auth

    Auth is not required, so the OAuth metadata check does not apply.

  • Not measured
    Free tier cited

    No publisher quote has been checked.

Tools

  • Pass
    Tools described

    Every tool description is at least 20 characters.

  • Pass
    Valid input schemas

    Every inputSchema is a JSON Schema object.

  • Pass
    Parameters documented

    44 of 45 parameters have a description (98%). The bar is 80%.

  • Pass
    Safety hints

    Every tool sets readOnlyHint or destructiveHint.

Publisher

  • Pass
    Verified namespace

    Listed in the Official MCP Registry.

  • Pass
    Website matches publisher

    The website host matches the reverse-domain namespace.

  • Fail
    Source repo linked

    No repository URL is on file.

  • Not measured
    Repo owner matches

    This namespace is not an io.github login, so the owner comparison does not apply.

  • Pass
    Recently updated

    Updated 2026-11-03T05:00:14.896503Z, within 180 days.

  • Not measured
    Open-source licence

    No GitHub repository to ask about a licence.

Start using Expat Living Italy

Connect to this server

Choose your client, copy the configuration, then enable the server in your client’s MCP settings.

Run this command in your terminal, then restart Claude Code.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http expat-living-italy https://www.expatliving.it/api/v1/mcp

Capabilities

Tools 12

check_tax_eligibility

For one regime slug (from list_tax_regimes) and one 6-digit ISTAT code (from search_comuni): qualifies, does_not_qualify or not_assessable, with a one-sentence reason to quote. not_assessable is never a no. This is about the place only; say so, and never present it as whether a person qualifies or as tax advice.

Discovered
find_comuni

Which Italian comuni match: region, province, population range, purchase-price and rent ranges (OMI), population change 2019–2025, the eight shortlist filters (January low, days above 30 C, regional hospital-care score, all three care scores at 60, tourist beds per resident, outside seismic zone 1, road time to a hospital with inpatient beds, road time to an airport) and/or the verified comuni of a tax regime. Paged (max 100) and sortable. Healthcare scores are region grain (autonomous-province grain for Bolzano and Trento): every town in the region shares the score. A comune with no price, rent, population-change, climate, healthcare, tourism, seismic or drive-time figure is left out of the filter on it and COUNTED in `missingData` — never treated as cheap, free or stable; say how many were left out. The taxRegime filter lists only comuni on the regime's verified routes: a comune missing from it is NOT a 'no' (the response says so in `taxRegime.note`). Rows carry plain numbers; their source and vintage are in `figures`. Use search_comuni to turn a town name into a code, get_comune for one town's full profile.

Discovered
get_article

One article's full text as Markdown, with its places, datasets and a ready-made citation. Quote figures from the dataset pages it cites, which carry their vintage. Content is free to use provided you credit Expat Living Italy and link to the article.

Discovered
get_comune

One Italian comune's population, foreign residents by citizenship, property purchase/rent price, price-to-rent, verified tax-regime eligibility, its province's rollup, `seismicZone` (the official zona sismica 1-4: a legal classification, not a forecast and not a verdict on any building; quote it with its label and say so — a comune that straddles zones has no single zone, never round it; the zone has nothing to do with tax eligibility, and is not the 7% regime’s “seismic” routes, which depend on the 2009 and 2016-17 earthquake areas), `layers` (climate, air quality, crime, healthcare quality, age, population change and every other Italy-map layer) and `provinceWellbeing` (ISTAT BES indicators, polarity-aware percentiles) — looked up by 6-digit ISTAT code. Each layer's `grain` and `measuredFor` say whose number it is: a province or region value is not a measurement of this comune — say so when you quote it. Every field is wrapped in a provenance envelope (source, vintage, extractedOn, license); repeat the vintage when you state the number, and if a value is null, say why rather than treating it as zero.

Discovered
get_coverage

For every dataset: how many places it covers, out of how many at its grain, plus the source's own coverage caveat. Pass `dataset` (a slug from list_datasets) to list the places that dataset lacks, with the gaps by region. Use it before telling anyone data does not exist for a place, and to explain a null. Missing means no figure, never a zero. Keys a source publishes that match no current place (a superseded province code) are reported and never mapped onto a current place. Drafts are listed as not served, without counts.

Discovered
get_nationality

For one tracked citizenship (ISO-2 code such as US, GB, DE): the comuni, provinces and regions where its holders concentrate, with counts and shares. It is CITIZENSHIP, not birthplace — foreign-born Italian citizens are not counted — and it carries small-number caveats: the comune ranking skips places under 1,000 residents by default and flags rows under 30 residents (`smallNumber`). A comune with no ISTAT row is left out, not counted as zero, so totals are floors. State those caveats when you quote a ranking; they are in the result's `caveats`. Province and comune lists are different levels of detail — say which.

Discovered
get_province

One Italian province (two-letter code such as AQ, or its slug — a comune's `provinceCode`): population, OMI prices, foreign residents by citizenship (citizenship, not birthplace), ALL ISTAT BES well-being indicators with polarity-aware percentiles among provinces (no composite score), every province- and region-grain map layer, `seismicZones` (how many of its comuni sit in each official seismic zone — a count of comuni, never an average, since a province has no zone of its own), and how much of the province meets each verified tax regime (places, not people). Sources use different province lists — Sardinia was reorganized in 2026 — so a section a source lacks is null with a reason and listed in `missingSections`: report it as missing, never substitute another province's figure.

Discovered
get_region

One Italian region (slug such as abruzzo or friuli-venezia-giulia, or its name): population, foreign residents by citizenship (citizenship, not birthplace), `seismicZones` (a count of its comuni per official seismic zone, never an average), the region-grain map layers (healthcare scores), its provinces (look each up with get_province) and how much of the region meets each verified tax regime (places, not people). Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol is scored by autonomous province, so its regional healthcare value is null with a reason: use get_province for Bolzano and Trento. A section a source lacks is null and listed in `missingSections`: report it as missing.

Discovered
list_articles

Dated, sourced reporting on moving to and retiring in Italy, newest first. Filter by topic, by place (a comune's ISTAT code) or by dataset slug. Each entry has its URL, a Markdown URL for the full text, and the places and datasets it cites. Content is free to use provided you credit Expat Living Italy and link to the article.

Discovered
list_datasets

The catalog: each dataset's source institution, vintage (the period it describes), geographic grain, license, the expatliving.it page that presents it, and whether it is servable (false = still an unverified draft; never quote its values). Use it to say what data exists and where a reader can see it.

Discovered
list_tax_regimes

Each regime's status (verified or draft), whether it depends on place (geographic) or on the person, its legislation, population ceiling and how many comuni meet its verified criteria. Places, not people: not tax advice.

Discovered
search_comuni

Look up Italian comuni by name (case- and accent-insensitive, partial names work) and get each one's 6-digit ISTAT code, province and region — the code get_comune needs. Returns identifiers only, no figures. Several comuni share a name; check the province before choosing.

Discovered

Recent measurements

Probe history

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