Read students, rolls and attendance; create and update students, contacts and houses in Orah. Hosted by usefulapi: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client.
Turn on the Orah connector, then ask in plain words. The AI picks the tools.
For school administrators and office staff who manage students, rolls and attendance in Orah.
List the school's location tree, then read the current location of each student.
List the completed rolls in a time range, then read one roll with each student's mark and reason.
List each student's daily attendance status for a date window of up to 12 months.
Filter students by house or year level, then list the contacts of one student.
Create a student record, then add the parent or guardian contact for that student. This writes to the school's live Orah.
Changes dataThe login page asks for your Region (where your school's Orah is hosted) and Orah Open API key.
Your school administrator creates the key in Orah Admin Console → Settings → Open API. If you cannot see that page, ask Orah to enable Open API for your school. Leave the key's IP whitelist empty. Your key is used only to call the Orah API for your school; it is never shown to anyone.
Team and Enterprise: an Owner adds the connector for the organization first.
No Add custom MCP server option? It depends on your account or workspace settings: see OpenAI's guide.
Run this command, then run /mcp in Claude Code to log in:
Add to Cursor or add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"orah": {
"url": "https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Add to VS Code or add this to .vscode/mcp.json:
{
"servers": {
"orah": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://orah.usefulapi.io/mcp"
}
}
} Run these commands. The second one opens the login page:
Windsurf, Cline, Zed and other MCP clients: add this URL as a remote MCP server (Streamable HTTP). The client then opens the login page in your browser.
Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Region (where your school's Orah is hosted) and Orah Open API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
| Plan | Price | Limit |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 50 tool calls / month |
| Proper user | $9/mo · $90/yr | Unlimited* |
*Pro fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month on this server. For more, write to [email protected].
Pro covers this Orah server only. Subscribe with orah_upgrade (it returns a Stripe Checkout link). Cancel any time with orah_cancel_subscription: Pro continues to the end of the paid period, with no refund for the current period, and running orah_upgrade before then undoes the cancel. Or write to [email protected].
orah_list_studentsorah_get_studentorah_list_housesorah_list_student_contactsorah_list_groupsorah_list_reason_codesorah_list_locationsorah_list_current_locationsorah_list_location_recordsorah_list_pastoralorah_list_roll_typesorah_list_rollsorah_get_rollorah_list_daily_attendanceorah_list_scheduled_classesorah_list_stafforah_get_stafforah_list_leave_typesorah_get_leaveorah_create_studentorah_update_studentorah_create_contactorah_update_contactorah_create_houseorah_update_houseorah_usage_statusorah_request_featureorah_upgradeorah_cancel_subscriptionCheck who is on grounds and where. Review roll marks for one lesson. Check daily attendance for a date window. Find a student and the contacts to call. Add a student and a guardian contact. See what you can do for the details.
No. usefulapi is an independent service. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Orah. The server calls the Orah API with your own Orah access, so it sees only the data that your account can see.
Yes. In Claude, add this server's URL as a custom connector. In ChatGPT, add it as a custom MCP server in Plugins. Then log in once. Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code and Codex work too. See the setup steps.
The login page asks for your Region (where your school's Orah is hosted) and Orah Open API key. See Before you connect for where to find them.
No. Add only the URL. Do not add an Authorization header or an API key to the client config. The server signs you in with OAuth: the login page asks for your Region (where your school's Orah is hosted) and Orah Open API key. If the config has such a header, remove it: some clients then send that header instead of the login token, and every call fails with 401.
The login stores them encrypted in the authorization grant of your connection. The server uses them to call the Orah API for you and to derive a private account id for usage metering. usefulapi does not show them on any page or in any reply. To stop all access, remove the connector and change or delete these credentials in Orah.
Yes, if you approve it. 6 of the 25 Orah tools can create or change data. The other 19 are marked read-only. Most MCP clients ask you to approve a tool call before it runs.
The Free plan gives 50 tool calls / month. Pro costs $9/mo or $90/yr, with unlimited tool calls (fair use limit: 10,000 tool calls a month), for this Orah server only. Cancel any time: Pro then runs to the end of the paid period. Run orah_usage_status to see how many calls you used.
Ask the AI to run orah_upgrade: it returns a Stripe Checkout link. To cancel, run orah_cancel_subscription. Pro continues to the end of the paid period.
Tell the AI what you wanted to do. It can send the request with orah_request_feature. We store the text with the server name, the type of AI client and the tool you tried, not with your account, and read every request when we plan new tools. You can send up to 5 requests per day.
Any client that supports remote MCP servers (Streamable HTTP) with OAuth login: Claude (web and desktop), Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf and others.
This is a Model Context Protocol endpoint — meant to be connected from an AI client, not opened in a browser. An invalid_token response at the URL is the auth gate working as designed; clients authenticate automatically.
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