Run identity verification from any MCP client — Claude Desktop, Cursor, Claude Code, or your own agent. Create verification sessions, hand the person a capture link, screen against sanctions and PEP lists, read results, and work the review queue, all as tools an agent can call.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "verifa": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@verifasolutionsinc/mcp-server"],
      "env": { "VERIFA_API_KEY": "vk_sandbox_...", "VERIFA_ENV": "sandbox" }
    }
  }
}

That is the whole install. Get a sandbox key at app.withverifa.com → Developers → API keys (free, no card, no sales call). Sandbox keys never touch real data and can simulate every verification outcome, so you can see the full lifecycle in a few minutes — examples/id-check does exactly that.

How it works

This package is deliberately small. It opens one authenticated connection to Verifa's hosted MCP endpoint (https://api.withverifa.com/mcp, streamable HTTP) and forwards tools/list, tools/call, prompts/list and prompts/get over stdio. Nothing is reimplemented here: tool schemas, PII scrubbing, rate limits and the audit trail all live server-side, so this wrapper never drifts from the product.

If your client already speaks streamable HTTP with OAuth 2.1, you can skip this package and connect to the hosted endpoint directly — same tools, sign-in instead of an API key.

Tools

The server exposes 45 tools, grouped into toolsets. By default you get everything except destructive.

Toolset	What an agent can do
`sessions`	`create_session`, `get_session`, `list_sessions`, `list_session_events`, `simulate_session` (sandbox), `reprocess_session`
`checks`	`list_checks`, `get_check`, `list_check_hits`, `rerun_check` — sanctions, PEP, adverse media, watchlists
`identities`	`search_identities`, `list_identities`, `get_identity`, tag / untag
`cases`	`list_cases`, `get_case`, `claim_case`, `assign_case`, `add_case_comment`, `approve_case`, `reject_case`, `escalate_case` …
`findings`	`list_findings`, `get_finding`, `acknowledge_finding`, `dismiss_finding`
`lists`	blocklist and custom list reads and writes
`workflows`	`list_workflows`, `get_workflow`, `trigger_workflow`, `list_verification_policies`
`org`	`whoami`, `get_usage_stats`, `list_org_users`, `list_api_keys`
`search`	`search` / `fetch` for ChatGPT-style connectors
`destructive`	`redact_session`, `redact_identity`, `bulk_redact_sessions`, … — off unless you opt in

Every tool is scoped: the API key's scopes cap what the connection can do, whatever toolsets are enabled. Every call — read or write — writes an audit row that records it was made by an agent and by which key or OAuth client, so an agent's decision is never mistaken for a human's.

Narrowing the surface

Fewer tools means less context spent per request and better tool selection. Pick what the job needs:

"env": {
  "VERIFA_API_KEY": "vk_sandbox_...",
  "VERIFA_MCP_TOOLSETS": "sessions,checks",
  "VERIFA_MCP_READ_ONLY": "1"
}

Variable	Effect
`VERIFA_API_KEY`	Required. `vk_sandbox_…` or `vk_live_…`. Publishable keys (`vk_pub_…`) are rejected.
`VERIFA_ENV`	`sandbox` or `live`. Inferred from the key if omitted; must match it if set.
`VERIFA_MCP_TOOLSETS`	Comma-separated toolsets to expose. Default: all except `destructive`.
`VERIFA_MCP_READ_ONLY`	`1` hides every tool that writes.
`VERIFA_MCP_ALLOW_DESTRUCTIVE`	`1` adds the redaction tools. Each call also needs the `redact:write` scope, a written `reason`, and is capped at 5 per hour per key. Redaction is irreversible by design.
`VERIFA_API_URL`	Override the API host (e.g. a staging environment).

Check what a given configuration exposes without opening a client:

VERIFA_API_KEY=vk_sandbox_... npx -y @verifasolutionsinc/mcp-server --check

Try it in five minutes

git clone https://github.com/Verifa-Solutions/verifa-mcp-server
cd verifa-mcp-server/examples/id-check
npm install
cp .env.example .env        # paste your sandbox key
npm start                   # approve
npm run review              # the outcome that matters: a human has to decide

The demo creates a session, generates the one-time capture link and QR code an integrator would show, simulates an outcome (no passport needed — sandbox only), and reads the result. It prints the REST calls in one column and the identical flow driven through this MCP server in the other. Add --webhooks with a public URL (cloudflared tunnel --url http://localhost:8787 works) to receive the signed webhook deliveries and see signature verification — the part most integrations get wrong.

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm test                                     # unit tests
VERIFA_API_KEY=vk_sandbox_... node dist/index.js --check   # live smoke test

Node 20+. Logs go to stderr; stdout is the MCP transport.

Security

Use sandbox keys while evaluating. Live keys should be scoped to the toolsets the agent needs.
The server never stores or logs the API key; it is sent only as a Bearer token to VERIFA_API_URL.
Responses are PII-free by default — the hosted server strips applicant identifiers from tool results unless the key holds the relevant scope and the session's sensitive-data window is open.
Report vulnerabilities via withverifa.com/security/disclosure.