SentiSift MCP Server

Official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for SentiSift. Lets MCP-compatible AI hosts (Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Continue, and others) call the SentiSift comment-moderation and intelligence API as a native tool.

What this unlocks

Once installed, your AI assistant can:

• Analyze comments directly in conversation: "Run these 50 comments through SentiSift and show me the bots and the sentiment distribution."
• Check your account state: "What's my SentiSift balance and when does my subscription renew?"
• Retrieve historical results: "Show me the sentiment history for yesterday's article on example.com/breaking-news."
• Self-diagnose service status: "Is the SentiSift API ready, or are models still loading?"

No code required. The assistant calls the tools through MCP and reports back.

Tools exposed

Install

You need Python 3.10+ and a SentiSift API key. Free keys (1,000 comments, no credit card) at sentisift.com/pricing.

Recommended: uvx (zero install, always latest)

uv runs published Python apps without persistent install. This is the install-free path.

# One-time: install uv (mac/linux)
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh

# Verify it works (Ctrl-C after a few seconds; the server is meant to be
# launched by your AI host, not run in a terminal).
SENTISIFT_API_KEY=sk_sentisift_... uvx sentisift-mcp

Alternative: pip install

pip install sentisift-mcp
sentisift-mcp   # run manually to verify

Host configuration

Each AI host has its own config file. Pick yours:

Claude Desktop

Edit the config file:

• macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
• Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Add the SentiSift entry to mcpServers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sentisift": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["sentisift-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SENTISIFT_API_KEY": "sk_sentisift_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. You should see a new tool indicator in the bottom-left corner of a new chat. Try: "Use SentiSift to check my balance."

Cursor

Cursor supports MCP via the Settings → MCP Servers panel. Add:

• Name: sentisift
• Command: uvx
• Arguments: sentisift-mcp
• Environment variables: SENTISIFT_API_KEY=sk_sentisift_your_key_here

Or edit ~/.cursor/mcp.json directly with the same structure as the Claude Desktop example above.

VS Code (with the MCP extension)

Edit your user or workspace settings.json:

{
  "mcp.servers": {
    "sentisift": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["sentisift-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SENTISIFT_API_KEY": "sk_sentisift_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

Continue.dev

In ~/.continue/config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": [
    {
      "name": "sentisift",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["sentisift-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "SENTISIFT_API_KEY": "sk_sentisift_your_key_here"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Any other MCP-compatible host

The server speaks MCP over stdio. Point your host at uvx sentisift-mcp (or sentisift-mcp if installed via pip) and set SENTISIFT_API_KEY in its environment.

How to talk to the assistant

Once configured, natural-language prompts work. Some examples:

"Check my SentiSift balance."

"Run these 20 comments through SentiSift for the article at https://example.com/breaking-story. Here are the comments:" (paste them)

"Is the SentiSift API ready right now, or is it still loading?"

"Fetch the processed comments for https://example.com/article-42 from SentiSift."

The assistant chooses the right tool, passes the right arguments, and summarizes the results. If a call fails, the error response includes a deep link to the relevant docs section so the assistant can self-correct.

Privacy

• The server sends a User-Agent header identifying it as sentisift-mcp/<version> so we can distinguish MCP traffic from direct SDK traffic in our usage logs. No other telemetry.
• The server runs locally on your machine. It only calls out to api.sentisift.com.
• Your API key stays on your machine (in the host's env config). It is never logged to disk by this server.

Source

Source and issue tracker: gitlab.com/pickel-fintech/sentisift-sdks.

Links

• SentiSift API docs
• OpenAPI spec
• Python SDK (this MCP server wraps it)
• Node SDK
• Changelog
• Support

License

MIT — see LICENSE. The SentiSift API service that this client calls is governed separately by sentisift.com/terms.html; use of the API requires an API key from sentisift.com/pricing.