Sanctions Screening Skill

OnlineCredit Usage:1 per callTool:SanctionsScreeningSkill

The tool

Give your agent OFAC sanctions screening. Call it as an MCP tool to check any name against the SDN list and get scored matches with aliases and programs.

Once your client is connected to the VerveKit MCP server, this appears in its tool list as SanctionsScreeningSkill. It is read-only and open-world: it fetches, it never mutates anything on your side, so most clients will call it without asking you to confirm.

Tool call

{
  "name": "SanctionsScreeningSkill",
  "arguments": {
    "name": "Banco Nacional de Cuba"
  }
}

What that looks like in a conversation

You don't name the tool — the model picks it. Asking about Banco Nacional de Cuba in the terms this source covers is enough for it to reach for SanctionsScreeningSkill on its own.

Connecting

One server URL covers every skill in the catalog, including this one. Authorization is OAuth — the client opens a browser once and there is no key to paste into a config file.

Client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vervekit": {
      "url": "https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Endpoint

https://api.vervekit.com/v1/mcp

Per-client setup — Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, ChatGPT — is on the MCP setup page.

Arguments

These are the properties on the tool's inputSchema, so a well-behaved client validates them before the call is made.

Argument	Type	Example	Description
`name`Required	string	`Banco Nacional de Cuba`	The person or company name to screen (minimum 3 characters)
`threshold`Premium	number	`0.85`	Minimum match score to return, between 0.5 and 1. Lower catches more names but returns more false positives
`limit`Premium	number	`10`	Maximum number of matches to return (1-50)
`type`Premium	string	`individual`	Restrict screening to one entry type

What the model gets back

The result carries a structuredContent object matching the tool's declared outputSchema, so a client can read fields without parsing prose. status is "ok" on success and error is null; a null field means the value wasn't available for that input, not that the call failed.

Result

{
  "status": "ok",
  "error": null,
  "data": {
    "query": "Banco Nacional de Cuba",
    "matched": true,
    "matchCount": 1,
    "verdict": "exact",
    "topScore": 1,
    "results": [
      {
        "uid": 306,
        "name": "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA",
        "type": "entity",
        "score": 1,
        "confidence": "exact",
        "matchedOn": "BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA",
        "matchedVia": "primary",
        "isWeakAlias": false,
        "programs": [
          "CUBA"
        ],
        "title": null,
        "aka": [
          {
            "name": "BNC",
            "type": "aka",
            "strength": "weak"
          },
          {
            "name": "NATIONAL BANK OF CUBA",
            "type": "aka",
            "strength": "strong"
          }
        ],
        "dateOfBirth": [],
        "placeOfBirth": [],
        "nationalities": [],
        "citizenships": [],
        "addresses": [
          {
            "address1": "Zweierstrasse 35",
            "city": "Zurich",
            "postalCode": "CH-8022",
            "country": "Switzerland"
          },
          {
            "address1": "Avenida de Concha Espina 8",
            "city": "Madrid",
            "postalCode": "E-28036",
            "country": "Spain"
          },
          {
            "address1": "Dai-Ichi Bldg. 6th Floor, 10-2 Nihombashi, 2-chome, Chuo-ku",
            "city": "Tokyo",
            "postalCode": "103",
            "country": "Japan"
          },
          {
            "address1": "Federico Boyd Avenue & 51 Street",

Fields

Field	Type	Example	Description
`query`	string	`Banco Nacional de Cuba`	The name that was screened
`matched`	boolean	`true`	Whether any entry on the list matched the query
`matchCount`	number	`1`	Number of matching entries returned
`verdict`	string	`exact`	Highest confidence across all matches: exact, high, possible, or none
`topScore`	number	`1`	Match score of the strongest match, from 0 to 1
`results`	array[1]	`list of rows`	Matching SDN entries, strongest first
`results.0.uid`	number	`306`
`results.0.name`	string	`BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA`
`results.0.type`	string	`entity`
`results.0.score`	number	`1`
`results.0.confidence`	string	`exact`
`results.0.matchedOn`	string	`BANCO NACIONAL DE CUBA`
`results.0.matchedVia`	string	`primary`
`results.0.isWeakAlias`	boolean	`false`
`results.0.programs`	array	`["CUBA"]`
`results.0.title`	object	`null`
`results.0.aka`	array[2]	`list of rows`
`results.0.aka.0.name`	string	`BNC`
`results.0.aka.0.type`	string	`aka`
`results.0.aka.0.strength`	string	`weak`
`results.0.dateOfBirth`	array	`[]`
`results.0.placeOfBirth`	array	`[]`
`results.0.nationalities`	array	`[]`
`results.0.citizenships`	array	`[]`
`results.0.addresses`	array[4]	`list of rows`
`results.0.addresses.0.address1`	string	`Zweierstrasse 35`
`results.0.addresses.0.city`	string	`Zurich`
`results.0.addresses.0.postalCode`	string	`CH-8022`
`results.0.addresses.0.country`	string	`Switzerland`
`results.0.ids`	array	`[]`
`results.0.remarks`	object	`null`
`list`	object	`{…}`
`list.source`	string	`OFAC SDN`	Name of the sanctions list screened
`list.authority`	string	`US Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control`	Publishing authority for the list
`list.publishDate`	string	`07/15/2026`	Date OFAC published the list version screened against
`list.recordCount`	number	`19217`	Number of entries on the list version screened against
`list.lastUpdated`	string	`2026-07-16T05:00:12.431Z`	ISO 8601 timestamp of the last successful list sync

Failure modes

Errors come back as tool errors with a sentence the model can act on, not a bare status code.

Status	What it means
`400 / 422`	The arguments didn't validate. The message names the offending one.
`401`	The OAuth session is invalid or expired — reconnect the server.
`403`	Out of credits. Not a bad key — the month's allowance is spent.
`404`	This skill isn't part of VerveKit. Check the catalog.
`429`	Brief rate limit. Retrying after a moment succeeds.

Other ways to use Sanctions Screening Skill

Set up Sanctions Screening Skill on VerveKit, or reach the same source a different way. Your VerveKit account and credits work on all of them — one key, one balance.

Call it as a REST APIOne HTTPS endpoint and an X-API-Key header, with SDKs for Node, Python and .NET.APIVerve →Reference →

Use it in Google Sheets or ExcelA =VERVE() formula fills a column — no script, no export, recalculates in place.VerveSheets →Reference →

Ground an agent on itA cited, machine-checkable fact your model can't produce on its own.VerveContext →Reference →

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to tell the agent to use SanctionsScreeningSkill?

No. The tool's name and description are in the model's context once the server is connected, so it selects the tool when the question calls for it. Naming it explicitly works too and is useful when you want to force the call.

Does connecting the server expose every tool at once?

Yes — one connection lists the whole VerveKit catalog. Clients with a tool budget can usually filter the list; the credit cost is per call, so an unused tool costs nothing.

What does a call cost?

1 credit each time the tool actually runs. A model that reasons about the tool without calling it costs nothing.

Is there a REST version of this?

Yes — the same source is available as a plain HTTPS endpoint on APIVerve, linked above. Same data, same credits, same account.

What's Next?

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