In Bmv MCP Server

@pipeworx/in-bmv

Indiana DMV data: Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) branches, self-service kiosks, BMV Connect locations, motorcycle rider-training (RSI) courses and skills-test sites. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1865+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

What Indiana calls its DMV

Indiana's agency is the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, universally the BMV. Hoosiers say "BMV branch" where other states say "DMV office", so the tool description names both.

Tools

Filters: city, name, zip, location_type, kiosk_only, limit.

Auth

None. The source is a plain static JSON file on in.gov — no key, no query parameters, no rate limit to negotiate. The whole file is fetched and filtered in code.

Location type is the main axis of this data

One file covers six categories, which is unusual — most states publish only their staffed offices. Live counts as of 2026-07-30:

location_type accepts those exact labels and also plain words — "branch", "kiosk", "connect", "motorcycle", "rider training", "skills test". kiosk_only: true is the separate hasKiosk flag and keeps 72 of the 160 (the 60 "Branch + Kiosk" plus the 11 BMV Connect kiosks and one more).

Gotchas worth knowing

These are live-verified behaviours, not guesses:

• website is an empty string on 127 of 160 rows, not null. The tool normalises "" to null so a caller can test for absence instead of comparing against the empty string.
• hours is null on 43 rows. RSI training courses and skills-test sites are run by partner organisations (ABATE of Indiana, Harley dealers) that schedule by appointment rather than posting counter hours; the tool leaves those null rather than inventing a schedule.
• url on an RSI row points at the partner, not at in.gov.
• No county column. Indiana's branch map keys off coordinates, so county comes back null.
• ZIPs are sometimes ZIP+4 (46203-6063). The zip filter is a prefix match, so a five-digit ZIP still matches.
• RSI rows are not branches. A city filter like "Indianapolis" returns 12 locations, and several are motorcycle-training sites — use location_type="branch" when the caller wants a place to renew a licence.

Data sources

• in.gov BMV branch map — bmv-branchmap-locations.json

Quick Start

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

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

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/in-bmv/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

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

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1865+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/in_bmv_branches \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"kiosk_only":true}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/in_bmv_branches. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Run it from npm

@pipeworx/mcp-in-bmv is a local stdio bridge to the Pipeworx gateway: your MCP client starts it with npx, and it forwards every call to the same https://gateway.pipeworx.io/in-bmv/mcp endpoint shown above. It needs network access; there is no offline mode.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "in-bmv": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-in-bmv"]
    }
  }
}

Without a key it calls anonymously, capped at 50 calls a day. A free account raises that to 200 a day: get a key at https://pipeworx.io/signup and add "env": { "PIPEWORX_API_KEY": "<your key>" } to the server entry. The key is sent as a Bearer token, the same way a hosted connection sends it, so calls are metered and billed exactly as they are there.

It lists only this pack's tools by default. Set PIPEWORX_META_TOOLS=1 to also list ask_pipeworx and the other gateway-wide tools.

Behind an HTTPS proxy: Node's built-in fetch does not read HTTPS_PROXY by default. Newer Node releases honour it when NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 is set; check your Node version's documentation.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about In Bmv data" })

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

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT