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SanctionScreen MCP server

Which MCP servers are SanctionScreen's own, from the official registry and from asking its own domain, whether they answer, and what they offer. A program checked each of these, nobody copied them from a product page.

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Whose server it is
  • Registry nameio.sanctionsscreen/sanctionscreenverified in the MCP registry

The registry name sits under sanctionsscreen.io. The registry only lets a publisher use that namespace after proving control of the domain through DNS or HTTP.

When we asked itchecked 2026-10-26
  • Stateanswerschecked 2026-10-26
  • Tools2
  • Server calls itselfcounterscreen-mcp
  • Server version0.1.0
  • Protocol version2025-06-18

On 2026-10-26 the server answered initialize and tools/list without a sign-in. First answer in 86 ms.

Should an agent connect itNot proven either way yet
  • Its tools do every use case we checked: check a payee's name against OFAC and UK sanctions lists; look up a company's legal name and location from its domain; let an AI agent run sanctions checks through MCP.
  • Checked on 1 of the 7 days it takes to judge reliability.

Once connected

  • For "check a payee's name against OFAC and UK sanctions lists", the likely first call is screen_counterparty.
  • For "look up a company's legal name and location from its domain", the likely first call is enrich_company.
  • For "let an AI agent run sanctions checks through MCP", the likely first call is screen_counterparty.

Said by rules from the measurements above. The likely first call is a model's pick from the tool list; read its description before relying on it.

Measured dailydaily checks: 1, the first on 2026-10-26
  • INITE MCP scoreafter a weeka score needs 7 daily checks: 1 so far
  • What an agent can do with it3 of 3 use cases
  • Answeredmeasuring1 of the 7 daily checks it takes to print a share
  • Median first answer78 ms
  • Space in an agent's context≈ 1,723 tokensthe definitions of all its tools (2), which an agent carries on every turn
  • Tool definitionsA · 100 of 100
  • Typed results0 of 2 toolsdeclared outputSchema: results come typed, read once
  • Every tool passes all six checks.

What an agent can do with it

  • can do · check a payee's name against OFAC and UK sanctions lists
  • can do · look up a company's legal name and location from its domain
  • can do · let an AI agent run sanctions checks through MCP

Each of the product's use cases, put to Jev against this server's tool list: can an agent do it with these tools?

Worth a look

None of the five warning signs in these definitions.

A program checks the server once a day: initialize and tools/list, no model. Tokens are the definitions' length at about four characters a token. The grade averages six checks of every tool's name, description, schema and annotations; it says how well the tools are described, not whether they work. The score weighs what was measured and nothing else: answering (25%), doing the product's job (25%), definitions (20%), context (10%), use (10%) and how readily a client connects (10%). A part that was not measured is left out, and a hidden instruction caps the score at 40. The state of vendors' MCP servers: method and numbers →

Tools it offers2 tools · read 2026-10-26
  • screen_counterparty

    Screen a counterparty name against the indexed sanctions lists (OFAC SDN, UK FCDO consolidated). What it does: normalizes the query (Unicode NFKD fold, punctuation strip, lowercase, Cyrillic/Greek transliteration; tolerant to token order…

  • enrich_company

    Resolve a company domain or legal name to structured company facts via the free public GLEIF LEI registry. Inputs: {domain? e.g. "apple.com", name? e.g. "Apple Inc.", request_id? (idempotency)}. At least one of domain/name is required. v1…

How to connect

Add the server to your MCP client config. Claude Desktop, Cursor and most other clients read this shape:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctionscreen": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://api.sanctionsscreen.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add it

Claude Code, in a terminal

claude mcp add --transport http sanctionsscreen https://api.sanctionsscreen.io/mcp

Add to CursorAdd to VS Code

claude.ai, ChatGPT and other clients: add https://api.sanctionsscreen.io/mcp as a custom connector in the settings.

Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.