tylenolthecleric/agentic-aml-investigator

CIPHERA is a server built with the Model Context Protocol, or MCP, an open standard that lets AI assistants like Claude or Cursor connect to outside tools and data instead of only using what they were trained on. This particular server is aimed at anti money laundering work inside financial institutions. The README explains that banks currently rely on large teams of human analysts to manually review flagged transactions, a process that is slow, costly, and prone to mistakes. CIPHERA is meant to act like an automated forensic accountant: when a transaction gets flagged, it queries outside databases, traces corporate ownership structures, and puts together a compliance dossier for a human to review. The project was built and is hosted on a platform called Nitrostack, which is designed to make it easy to build, deploy, and share MCP servers without managing your own infrastructure. A live demo endpoint is provided, and you can point any MCP compatible client at it to try it directly, or connect it by adding a short JSON configuration entry to your client's settings. To run it yourself, the README lists the usual steps: clone the repository, install dependencies with npm, copy an example environment file to set your own configuration values, then start the server with npm run start. It requires Node.js version 18 or newer. Much of the README is generic boilerplate shared across projects built on Nitrostack, including a FAQ about what MCP servers are in general and links to browse other MCP apps on the platform. The project is licensed under MIT.