swisstip-mcp

Last update: 16 September 2026

The Swiss TIP MCP server gives an AI assistant grounded access to authoritative Swiss public information. It serves a curated, versioned knowledge release: facts, each tied to an exact excerpt of an official page with a citation, and an explicit statement of what is not covered. The assistant composes the answer; the server never invents one.

Four read-only tools: get_coverage, search, resolve, get_evidence. Transports: stdio, and Streamable HTTP on /mcp with a /health route. Serving needs no model, no credentials and no network.

Knowledge releases

The package contains no knowledge. A knowledge release is two files, release.json and readiness.json, published with the repository's GitHub releases. Download both into one directory; the server validates every hash and span of release.json before it serves, and --require-ready refuses a release without a matching readiness record.

Use

Python 3.14 or newer. With uv, uvx fetches the server and a matching Python on first use:

uvx swisstip-mcp --release ./kb/release.json --require-ready --health
uvx swisstip-mcp --release ./kb/release.json --require-ready
uvx swisstip-mcp --release ./kb/release.json --transport streamable-http --port 8000

Claude Code:

claude mcp add swisstip -- uvx swisstip-mcp --release /path/to/kb/release.json --require-ready

Other MCP clients (Claude Desktop, Cursor and similar):

{ "mcpServers": { "swisstip": { "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["swisstip-mcp", "--release", "/path/to/kb/release.json", "--require-ready"] } } }

swisstip-mcp --release <file> --print-client-config opencode prints a configuration for OpenCode. swisstip-server is the same command under its earlier name.

Container

FROM python:3.14-slim
RUN pip install --no-cache-dir swisstip-mcp
COPY kb/release.json kb/readiness.json /srv/swiss-tip/
ENTRYPOINT ["swisstip-mcp", "--release", "/srv/swiss-tip/release.json", "--require-ready", "--transport", "streamable-http", "--host", "0.0.0.0"]

Related packages

• swisstip-core: the release format, validator and tool operations.
• swisstip-builder: the workstation tools that build a knowledge release.

Licence: Apache-2.0.