Sanctions Screening

Sanctions Screening MCP — screen people, companies, vessels, and aircraft

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1683+ live data sources.

Tools

Tool	Description
sanctions_screen	Screen a person, company, vessel, or aircraft name against the US restricted-party lists — OFAC SDN sanctions, Sectoral Sanctions (SSI), Chinese Military-Industrial Complex (CMIC), BIS Entity List / Denied Persons / Military End User, State ITAR Debarred, and the DHS UFLPA Entity List for Xinjiang forced-labor import bans (~26k entries, synced daily). Fuzzy name matching with a 0-1 relevance score, matched aliases, programs, addresses, and which list each hit is on. Use for KYB / KYC / AML / export-control checks, and to check whether a supplier is subject to the forced-labor import ban before importing. Returns an empty matches array when the name is clear. Handles CYRILLIC names — Russian, Ukrainian, Serbian: the lists are held in Latin script, so a Cyrillic name is romanised into a small candidate set (both conventions: г as g or h, и as i or y, я as ya or ia) and every form is screened, with matched_form on each hit naming the spelling that produced it. So "Сбербанк" returns the same matches as "Sberbank". A name in a script we do NOT romanise (Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Han, Japanese, Korean, Devanagari, Thai) still cannot be compared, and is refused with clear:null / screened:false rather than reported clear — pass the Latin transliteration used on the list.
sanctions_entry	Get the full Consolidated Screening List record for one entry by its uid (from sanctions_screen results, e.g. "SDN:12345") or by OFAC entity number. Returns every field: all aliases, addresses, identity documents (passports, tax IDs, IMO numbers, crypto wallet addresses), sanction programs, license requirements, Federal Register notice, vessel details, and remarks.
sanctions_lists	List the US restricted-party lists this pack screens against, with entry counts and data freshness (last sync time). Use to cite coverage in a compliance report: OFAC SDN/SSI/CMIC, BIS Entity List/DPL/UVL/MEU, State ITAR-Debarred/ISN, and the DHS UFLPA Entity List.

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctions-screening": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/sanctions-screening/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/sanctions-screening/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — ask_pipeworx, discover_tools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

This is deliberate, not multiplexing by accident. The meta-tools are what let a scoped connection answer a question this pack does not cover — via ask_pipeworx, which routes across the whole catalog — without you adding a second MCP server. There is currently no way to mount a pack endpoint without them; if the extra schemas cost you more context than the routing is worth, connect to the full gateway once rather than to several pack endpoints.

Or connect to the full Pipeworx gateway to get every pack's tools listed directly, instead of just this one's:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Both URLs reach the same gateway and the same 1683+ data sources. The only difference is which pack's tools are listed directly; ask_pipeworx reaches all of them from either one.

No MCP client? Call it over HTTP

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/sanctions_screen \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"name":"Rosneft"}'

No account needed for the first calls. Inspect any tool: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/sanctions_screen. Find one: POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search_packs with {"query":"..."}.

Standalone (no gateway account)

This package also runs as a local stdio MCP server — no Pipeworx account, no gateway round-trip:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sanctions-screening": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@pipeworx/mcp-sanctions-screening"]
    }
  }
}

Or run it directly to confirm it starts:

npx -y @pipeworx/mcp-sanctions-screening

It speaks MCP over stdin/stdout and answers initialize/tools/list/tools/call for only this pack's tools — none of the shared meta-tools the gateway connection above adds. Same source, same tools, no ask_pipeworx routing.

Using with ask_pipeworx

Instead of calling tools directly, you can ask questions in plain English — this works on the pack endpoint above as well as on the full gateway:

ask_pipeworx({ question: "your question about Sanctions Screening data" })

The gateway picks the right tool and fills the arguments automatically.

More

• Docs and guides
• pipeworx.io

License

MIT