NarcoScope — illicit-economy evidence atlas
Read bounded illicit-economy evidence with provenance, privacy, availability, and federation intact.
What it can do
What data it sees
Do you need an account
No: the server works without sign-in
Read bounded illicit-economy evidence with provenance, privacy, availability, and federation intact.
How to connect
How to connect NarcoScope — illicit-economy evidence atlas to Claude
The server address to paste into Claude settings:
https://www.narcoscope.com/mcp
- Open Claude (claude.ai or the desktop app).
- Go to Settings → Connectors.
- Click Add custom connector.
- Paste the server address copied below into Remote MCP server URL and click Add.
- In a chat, click + → Connectors and switch the new connector on.
Custom connectors are available on Free, Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans (Free is limited to one). On Team and Enterprise an organization Owner adds the connector first under Organization settings → Connectors.
Authorization
After you click Add, a sign-in window for the service opens. Sign in with your own account and approve access. Claude never sees your password.
How to connect NarcoScope — illicit-economy evidence atlas to ChatGPT
The server address to paste into ChatGPT settings:
https://www.narcoscope.com/mcp
- Open ChatGPT in a browser (chatgpt.com). A Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu plan is required.
- Turn on developer mode once: Settings → Apps → Advanced settings → Developer mode.
- Open Settings → Connectors and click Create.
- Fill in the form: Name (anything), Description (one line about what the service does), MCP server URL (copy it below).
- Under Authentication choose OAuth if the service requires sign-in, otherwise None. Click Create.
- In a new chat open + → Apps/Connectors and enable the connector.
OpenAI has renamed this section before (Connectors → Apps/Plugins). If the label differs, search settings for "developer mode". On Business/Enterprise workspaces an admin must allow custom connectors first.
Authorization
On first use ChatGPT opens the service's sign-in window. Sign in and approve access.
How to connect NarcoScope — illicit-economy evidence atlas to Cursor
The server address to paste into Cursor settings:
https://www.narcoscope.com/mcp
Fastest: click Open in Cursor below and confirm the prompt.
Manually:
- In Cursor open Settings → Cursor Settings → MCP and click Add new global MCP server.
- Paste the JSON copied below into
~/.cursor/mcp.json(per project:.cursor/mcp.jsonin the repo root). - Save the file. The server appears in the MCP list; authorize it there if asked.
Authorization
If the service needs sign-in, an authorize button appears next to the server in the MCP list.
Server tool list (14)
Raw names from tools/list. Only developers need these.
| research_network | Read Palimpsest’s complete source catalog by topic alongside Seiche funding context, with next steps into LiquiLens filings and Undertow liquidity. Source dates, rights and missingness stay attached; no actor, route, criminal or causal inference is implied. |
| list_capabilities | List the evidence explorer, newsroom, API, feeds, MCP tools, audiences, and safety boundaries. |
| get_overview | Return bounded headline aggregates across official prices, seizures, overdose mortality, wastewater, and public designations. |
| get_atlas | Return country-year organized-crime and firearms-tracing observations with source metadata, native caveats, explicit null fields, and stable cursor pagination. No records identify people or operational locations. |
| get_entities | Return approved public designation identity fields only. A designation is an administrative action, not an adjudication or proof of guilt; aliases, addresses, dates of birth, identity documents, and allegation text are withheld. |
| get_federation | Return bounded public money-market, capital-market, BRI, or publication-rights context without cross-lane scoring, composites, causal inference, or culpability inference. Upstream unavailability stays typed. |
| get_newsroom | List current deterministic analyses with citations, correction metadata, publication gates, and explicit evidence limits. |
| get_story | Fetch one story as metadata, a machine brief, or the cited dossier. Use the machine brief first for agent workflows. |
| get_palimpsest_bridge | Return the official-only China aggregate shared with the Intelligence Commons, including disclosure and causal boundaries. |
| get_palimpsest_corridors | Return official country-level China, Pakistan, and Myanmar aggregates with missing-data, provenance, disclosure, and geography-and-time-only join rules. |
| get_palimpsest_bri_context | Return pinned source readiness and national WDI coverage for CPEC, Gwadar, CMEC, Kyaukpyu, and Balochistan as a parallel context lane. Cross-lane drug, actor, route, guilt, political, project, causal, tactical, and navigable inference or use is prohibited. |
| get_connected_research | Return source-linked China economic findings, CPEC, Balochistan, BRI and Myanmar research questions, reporting metadata, and dated national indicators. Optional hash-bound observatory summaries add economic histories, EU-reported trade and official methodology cases. SAFE quantities remain private. Country and theme context only; gaps do not establish concealment, actor relationships or causality. |
| get_market_catalog | List drugs, arms and informal-economy datasets, native indicator units, exact country/category/subgroup dimensions, numeric and unavailable coverage, source hashes and source-specific reuse restrictions. Legacy atlas and price histories remain distinct resources. |
| query_market_observations | Filter published observations by dataset, indicator, geography, category, subgroup and inclusive reference period with bounded stable pagination (default 200, maximum 500). Retain dataset hashes across pages. Units, source locators, estimates and unavailable values remain explicit. No market-size aggregation, unit conversion or causal inference. |