What you can ask

“What does FWS Critical Habitat (ESA) have for the area or asset I'm working on?”
“Pull the most recent FWS Critical Habitat (ESA) records and put them in a table.”
“What does FWS Critical Habitat (ESA) cover, and how fresh is the data?”

Connect to your AI assistant

Paste this URL into Claude, ChatGPT, or any MCP client, then sign in when prompted. FWS Critical Habitat (ESA) is ready as soon as you sign in.

https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Add to Claude Add to ChatGPT Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Claude: use Add to Claude, or Settings > Connectors > Add custom connector and paste the URL.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http patchops https://patchops.ai/api/mcp

Step by step

1
Open connectors
In Claude, open Settings > Connectors and click "Add custom connector".
2
Paste the URL
Name it PatchOps and paste https://patchops.ai/api/mcp as the server URL, then click Add.
3
Sign in
Click Connect and sign in to PatchOps when Claude asks.
4
Start using
Ask Claude a question. It uses FWS Critical Habitat (ESA) through PatchOps when it needs to.

› Technical details

US Fish & Wildlife Service ESA-designated critical habitat — Final and Proposed critical-habitat polygons for threatened & endangered species, from the FWS hosted ArcGIS service. No auth.

View the data contract and method schemas →