Official answers, straight from EDGA
Connect a compatible AI assistant and ask everyday questions about club documents, policies, course planning and the EDGA Tour. The answers use information published by Disc Golf England.
What can it help with?
Use your usual words. Your assistant can look up the relevant EDGA source and bring the useful parts into the conversation.
Prepare club documents
Start a constitution, code of conduct or risk assessment using EDGA templates and your club details.
Find the right policy
Check EDGA safeguarding, equality, anti-doping and disciplinary guidance without searching through several documents.
Plan a course proposal
Bring EDGA safety, budget and landowner guidance into early conversations with councils and site partners.
Explore the EDGA Tour
Ask about current or previous seasons, event schedules, divisions, standings and stage results.
Questions you could ask
Once connected, choose an example to copy it, then paste it into your assistant.
Connect an assistant
Choose the setup that matches the compatible app you use. You only need to do this once.
Step 1: Open your Claude Desktop configuration file:
- macOS:
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json - Windows:
%APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Step 2: Add the disc-golf-england server to your mcpServers section:
{
"mcpServers": {
"disc-golf-england": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"mcp-remote",
"https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcp"
]
}
}
}Step 3: Save the file and restart Claude Desktop. The hammer icon will show the 6 Disc Golf England tools ready to use.
Connect with ChatGPT
Custom MCP servers are added as plugins in ChatGPT on the web. Availability depends on your plan and workspace permissions.
- Open Plugins in ChatGPT, select the plus button, then choose Add custom MCP server.
- Name it Disc Golf England, choose a public server connection and paste the URL below.
- Choose No authentication, review the safety notice, then create and install the plugin.
- In a new conversation, type @Disc Golf England to use the EDGA tools.
https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcpRead the official ChatGPT connection guide
Connect with Codex
Run this once in your terminal. Codex CLI and the Codex IDE extension share the same MCP configuration.
codex mcp add discGolfEngland --url https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcpCheck the connection with codex mcp list, then ask Codex to use the Disc Golf England tools for an EDGA policy, club, course or Tour question.
In Cursor: Go to Settings > Features > MCP Servers > Add New MCP Server.
- Name:
disc-golf-england - Type:
command - Command:
npx -y mcp-remote https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcpOnce added, the agent in Composer or Chat can call EDGA tools directly during development or research.
The EDGA MCP server implements the official Model Context Protocol (specification 2024-11-05) over Streamable HTTP and JSON-RPC 2.0.
- Endpoint URL:
https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcp - Transport: HTTP POST (and GET for server discovery)
- Authentication: None (public read-only information from EDGA, Tjing and DiscGolfAPI)
Example JSON-RPC request via curl:
curl -X POST https://discgolfengland.com/wp-json/edga/v1/mcp \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": 1, "method": "tools/list"}'Technical tool reference
Available tools
These six read-only tools are available from the public EDGA connection.
| Tool Name | Purpose | Key Arguments | Output |
|---|---|---|---|
list_governance_policies | Enumerate all adopted national policies with statutory bases, adoption dates, and web/PDF links. | None | Array of policy metadata objects with adoption status and URLs |
get_governance_policy | Retrieve full policy markdown content, statutory references, and annual review lifecycle compliance. | slug (string, e.g. national-safeguarding-policy) | Markdown policy text, version number, and review status |
get_club_starter_guidance | Generate personalised club starter guidance, parameter substitutions, and downloadable Word (.docx) export URLs. | topic (string), club_name (string), officer roles (strings) | Personalised guidance text and direct Word download link |
get_course_development_framework | Retrieve course design safety clearance minimums (15 to 20m from paths), planning checklists, and budget envelopes (£5,500 to £9,500). | landowner_type (council, forestry, private, university) | Clearance distances, risk matrices, and installation cost models |
search_courses | Search public course records supplied by the independent DiscGolfAPI service. EDGA does not own or control this data. | query (name or locality), or latitude, longitude and radius_km for nearest courses | Matching courses with locality, coordinates, distance where requested, layout, and links |
get_edga_tour | Query live EDGA National Tour standings, event schedules, division leaderboards, and stage results. | year (2026 or 2025; omit for current), view (schedule, standings, stats, divisions), division (string) | Live tour data directly synchronised with Tjing API |
