procare-mcp
Click on "Deploy Server".
Wait a few minutes for the server to deploy. Once ready, it will show a "Started" state.
In the chat, type
@followed by the MCP server name and your instructions, e.g., "@procare-mcp Show attendance for school 1234 yesterday."
That's it! The server will respond to your query, and you can continue using it as needed.
Here is a step-by-step guide with screenshots.
procare-mcp
First MCP server for the Procare Connect API — talk to your child care center data from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Procare is the leading child care management platform used by 30,000+ daycare centers, preschools, and before/after-school programs in the US. The public Connect API is documented at https://api-docs.procareconnect.com/ and powers the Procare Online + SchoolCare Works products. This server wraps that API in the Model Context Protocol so you can ask your AI agent questions like "which children at school 1234 were absent on Monday?" or "what's the balance on family 555?" — without hand-rolling a REST client.
What you can do with it
You: "Pull the attendance log for school 1234 for last week and tell me
which kids had 3+ absences."
Claude: *calls list_schools, then list_attendance with school_id+date_from
+date_to, summarises the result*
You: "Show me the enrollment roster for the summer camp at our
Westside location."
Claude: *calls list_programs then list_registrations with school_id +
program_id filters*
You: "What's the outstanding balance for family 555?"
Claude: *calls get_family, returns the balance_cents field with a
human-readable summary*Related MCP server: mcp-db-universal
Install
pip install -e .Configure
Procare uses OAuth 2 client_credentials against your tenant subdomain, not a shared host. Find your subdomain by looking at the URL of the Procare dashboard you log into — it'll be https://<your-subdomain>.procareconnect.com. Your Procare account admin can mint a client_id / client_secret pair with API access enabled.
export PROCARE_BASE_URL="https://<your-subdomain>.procareconnect.com"
export PROCARE_CLIENT_ID="..."
export PROCARE_CLIENT_SECRET="..."Who uses this?
Child care center owners and operators who want to query their data via Claude / Cursor without building a custom integration.
Multi-location operators (5+ centers) who need to roll up attendance, payments, and enrollment across the enterprise.
API Partners building tools on top of Procare.
If you don't have API credentials yet, contact your Procare account manager or open a ticket with Procare support.
Use with Claude Desktop
Add to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or the equivalent path on Windows / Linux:
{
"mcpServers": {
"procare-mcp": {
"command": "procare_mcp",
"env": {
"PROCARE_BASE_URL": "https://your-subdomain.procareconnect.com",
"PROCARE_CLIENT_ID": "your-client-id",
"PROCARE_CLIENT_SECRET": "your-client-secret"
}
}
}
}Use with Claude Code
claude mcp add procare-mcp -- procare_mcp \
--env PROCARE_BASE_URL=https://your-subdomain.procareconnect.com \
--env PROCARE_CLIENT_ID=your-client-id \
--env PROCARE_CLIENT_SECRET=your-client-secretTools
Tool | Type | What it does |
| Diagnostic | Verifies credentials by listing schools (counts them) |
| Read | All schools/locations in the enterprise account |
| Read | Single school by id |
| Read | Children, filterable by school_id / paginated via offset+limit |
| Read | Single child by id (allergies, schedule, classroom) |
| Read | Families (households), filterable by school_id / paginated |
| Read | Single family by id (guardians, children, contacts, balance) |
| Read | Attendance records, filterable by school / child / date range |
| Read | Programs (camps, preschool, after-school), filterable by school / active |
| Read | Single program by id (description, schedule, capacity, fee) |
| Read | Enrollments, filterable by program / child / school |
| Read | Payments, filterable by family / school / date range |
| Read | Staff members, filterable by school / active flag |
| Read | Single staff member by id |
| Read | Classrooms, filterable by school |
| Read | Single classroom by id (capacity, age range, lead teacher) |
The read-only cut covers every endpoint exposed by the Connect API that the v0.1 surface needs. Write tools (check-in, check-out, create registration) will land in a follow-up once the upstream write contract is stable across Procare Online and SchoolCare Works.
Engineering
This server follows the industry-leading patterns baked into mcp-vertical-template:
Shared
httpx.AsyncClientwith connection pooling and transport-level retriesOAuth 2
client_credentialswith proactive refresh (5-min buffer) and anasyncio.Lockto serialize concurrent refreshesTyped exception hierarchy (
ProcareAuthError,ProcareNotFoundError,ProcareRateLimitError,ProcareAPIError,ProcareConnectionError) with structured fields (http_status,error_code,request_id,retry_after)Dispatch table for HTTP status → exception (no
if/elifchains)Application-level retry with exponential backoff + full jitter on 429/5xx, honoring
Retry-AfterSingle 401 retry that force-refreshes the OAuth token (handles server-side revocation)
JSONL audit logging per tool call (stderr default,
PROCARE_AUDIT_LOGenv var override) with secret redactionBare
raiseinside MCP tool handlers —isError=trueon the wire, per the Blackwell MCP security audit baselinerespxmocks +hypothesisproperty tests (no live API in CI)rufffull rule set +mypy --strictCI matrix on Python 3.10-3.13 × Ubuntu/macOS/Windows
Development
python -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -v
procare_mcpLicense
MIT.
See also
Available Tools
16 toolsget_childA
Fetch a single child by id (full record: allergies, schedule, etc.).
Use when: "what are the allergies for child X?" or "show me the enrollment record for this child."
Example: child_id="kid-789" returns {"id": "kid-789", "first_name": "...", "allergies": [...], "schedule": {...}, ...}.
Inputs: child_id (required). Returns: result
get_classroomA
Fetch a single classroom by id (capacity, age range, lead teacher).
Use when: "what's the capacity and age range for classroom 33?"
Inputs: classroom_id (required). Returns: result
get_familyA
Fetch a single family by id (guardians, children, contacts, balance).
Use when: "what's the balance on family 555?" or "show me the guardians
emergency contacts for this household."
Example: family_id="fam-555" returns {"id": "fam-555", "guardians": [...], "children": [...], "balance_cents": ...}.
Inputs: family_id (required). Returns: result
get_programA
Fetch a single program by id (description, schedule, capacity, fee).
Use when: "what's the capacity and weekly fee for program 7777?"
Inputs: program_id (required). Returns: result
get_schoolA
Fetch a single school by id (name, address, phone, hours, etc.).
Use when: "what's the address of school 1234?" or "what are the hours for our downtown location?"
Example: school_id="abc-123" returns {"id": "abc-123", "name": "..."}.
Inputs: school_id (required). Returns: result
get_staff_memberA
Fetch a single staff member by id (name, role, classrooms, schedule).
Use when: "what's the role and classroom assignment for staff 222?"
Inputs: staff_id (required). Returns: result
health_checkA
Verify credentials work. Calls list_schools (the cheapest read).
If this fails with ProcareAuthError, check PROCARE_BASE_URL (must be your tenant subdomain, e.g. https://mycenter.procareconnect.com) and that PROCARE_CLIENT_ID / PROCARE_CLIENT_SECRET are correct.
Example: call with no arguments to run a smoke test.
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: result
list_attendanceA
List attendance records, filterable by school / child / date range.
Use when: "who was absent on Monday at school 1234?" or "give me the full attendance log for child X over the last 30 days."
Args:
school_id: restrict to one school.
child_id: restrict to one child.
date_from: ISO date YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).
date_to: ISO date YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).
limit: max records.
Inputs: limit, date_to, child_id, date_from, +1 more. Returns: result
list_childrenA
List children enrolled, optionally filtered by school.
Use when: "show me all children at school 1234" or "list the next 50
children across all schools." Combine with offset for pagination.
Args: school_id: restrict to one school within the enterprise account. limit: max records to return (server-side cap applies). offset: skip N records for pagination.
Example: list_children(school_id="abc-123", limit=20) returns
[{"id": "...", "first_name": "...", "last_name": "...", ...}, ...].
Inputs: limit, offset, school_id. Returns: result
list_classroomsA
List classrooms, optionally filtered by school.
Use when: "what classrooms do we have at school 1234?"
Inputs: school_id. Returns: result
list_familiesA
List families (households), optionally filtered by school.
Use when: "show me all families at school 1234" or "how many active households are on our books?"
Args: school_id: restrict to one school. limit: max records. offset: skip N records for pagination.
Inputs: limit, offset, school_id. Returns: result
list_paymentsA
List payments / invoices, filterable by family / school / date range.
Use when: "show me all payments for family 555 in October" or "what was our total revenue at school 1234 last month?"
Args:
family_id: restrict to one family.
school_id: restrict to one school.
date_from: ISO date YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).
date_to: ISO date YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive).
limit: max records.
Inputs: limit, date_to, date_from, family_id, +1 more. Returns: result
list_programsA
List programs (camps, preschool, after-school, summer).
Use when: "what programs do we currently offer?" or "show me the active summer programs at school 1234."
Args: school_id: restrict to one school. active: filter by active flag (True / False / None = all).
Inputs: active, school_id. Returns: result
list_registrationsA
List registrations (enrollments), filterable by program / child / school.
Use when: "who's enrolled in program 7777?" or "what programs is child X currently in?" or "how many active registrations does school 1234 have?"
Args: program_id: restrict to one program. child_id: restrict to one child. school_id: restrict to one school. limit: max records.
Inputs: limit, child_id, school_id, program_id. Returns: result
list_schoolsA
List all schools/locations accessible to the enterprise account.
Use when: "what schools are on our Procare account?" or "what center IDs do I have access to?" before calling per-school tools.
Example: returns [{"id": "...", "name": "...", ...}, ...].
Inputs: no named parameters. Returns: result
list_staffA
List staff members, optionally filtered by school / active flag.
Use when: "who are the active teachers at school 1234?" or "show me all staff across all our schools."
Inputs: active, school_id. Returns: result
Tool Schema Changelog
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TDQS
Scored across 16 tools
Each tool has a clear, distinct purpose: singular get_* for individual records, plural list_* for collections, and health_check for auth verification. No two tools overlap in functionality.
All tools follow a consistent verb_noun snake_case pattern (e.g., get_child, list_schools). The only outlier is health_check, which still follows verb_noun and is standard for such tools.
16 tools cover the major entities (children, classrooms, families, programs, schools, staff, attendance, payments, registrations) without being excessive. The number is well-scoped for a child care management API.
The tool set is entirely read-only (get and list only). No create, update, or delete operations exist for any entity, which is a significant gap for typical CRUD workflows and will cause agent failures when mutation is needed.
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