Knowledge index
Consumer Finance Complaints (CFPB)
Consumer finance complaints from the CFPB: narratives released under FOIA, with the product, issue and company response.
Works with
Claude Code, Codex, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok and any MCP client
Domain
Finance
Size
23.9k narratives
Coverage
Narratives released under FOIA
Example questions
What issues do consumers report most about mortgage servicing transfers?
Find complaints about disputed credit report entries that were not corrected.
How do consumers describe problems closing a bank account?
Use cases
Review complaints about your products and the issues they raise.
Find where customers get stuck in onboarding, disputes and account closure.
Compare complaint patterns across products and companies.
About this index
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau collects complaints about financial products and releases complaint narratives through Freedom of Information Act requests. Each narrative names the product, the issue, the company’s response and the consumer’s account of what happened. This Kapa index covers the released narratives, mirrored for agent search. It is not a complete CFPB archive.
Owner
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Coverage
Narratives released under FOIA
License and credit
Data comes from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Kapa provides this page and the MCP URL. It is not an official CFPB product and implies no endorsement. Credit CFPB when citing.
Caveats
Narratives are consumer accounts and are not verified by the CFPB. Check details against the source before relying on them.
Add to your agent
Copy the setup prompt and paste into your agent.
Or add it manually
MCP URL
https://cfpb-foia.mcp.kapa.ai
Claude Code
Codex
Claude
ChatGPT
Grok Bot
Other
claude mcp add --transport http
cfpb-foia
https://cfpb-foia.mcp.kapa.ai
Then run /mcp and finish sign-in in the browser.
Example
With the MCP, Claude cites the actual records
Same question, same model (Opus 5.5, high effort). Left: Claude with web search. Right: Claude with this index.
Normal Claude
Web search
With knowledge index
CFPB
MCP
Frequently asked questions
What is a knowledge index?
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A searchable index of a public data source, like NASA's aviation safety reports, that your agent can query over MCP.
How do I add one to my agent?
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