SudnoKontrol MCP

Model Context Protocol server for the Ukrainian national vessel registry — search vessels by registration number, name or owner, look up full registry records, and query aggregate statistics. Exposes the public data of the Державний судновий реєстр України (State Ship Registry) and the Суднова книга України (Ship Book).

Data is read-only and public — no API key required.

• Hosted endpoint (recommended): https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/mcp (Streamable HTTP)
• Project docs: https://sk.ukrfish.org/api-docs and https://sk.ukrfish.org/info/ai-agents
• Discovery: https://sk.ukrfish.org/llms.txt

Tools

Tool	Description
search_vessel_registries	Free-text + structured search across both national registries. Deterministic ordering: exact registration-number matches first. Supports Cyrillic/Latin and separator-insensitive numbers (УПС-0129 ≡ УПС 0129 ≡ UPS-0129).
lookup_vessel	Exact vessel lookup by normalized registration number. Returns full registry record.
get_registry_stats	Aggregate public vessel counts ("how many vessels...").
get_dataset_metadata	Dataset context: sources, import dates, record counts, fields.

Every search/lookup result includes a web_url → https://sk.ukrfish.org/registry?vessel=<reg> pointing to the public vessel information page.

Quick start — hosted server

Claude Code / Claude Desktop

claude mcp add --transport http sudnokontrol https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/mcp

Cursor

Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server → Name sudnokontrol, Type HTTP, URL https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/mcp.

Windsurf

Windsurf → MCP → Add server → https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/mcp.

Any MCP client (streamable HTTP)

URL:  https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/mcp
Auth: none (public, IP rate-limited)

Run it yourself

The server proxies the public API and needs no credentials.

# stdio (for Claude Desktop "command" servers)
npx sudnokontrol-mcp

# HTTP (streamable)
npx sudnokontrol-mcp http
# or: PORT=9000 HOST=127.0.0.1 npx sudnokontrol-mcp http

Install from this repo directly:

npm install -g github:ailubes/sudnokontrol-mcp

To point at a different base (e.g. your own deployment):

SUDNOKONTROL_API=https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai npx sudnokontrol-mcp

From source:

npm install
npm run build
node dist/index.js        # stdio
node dist/index.js http   # HTTP on :8958/mcp

Connect to your local instance

claude mcp add --transport http local-sudnokontrol http://127.0.0.1:8958/mcp

API (underlying REST, no MCP needed)

Endpoint	Purpose
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/openapi.json	OpenAPI 3.1 spec
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/tools	Function-calling tool definitions (JSON Schema)
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/meta	Dataset context
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/registry/search?q=	Search
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/registry/lookup/{reg}	Lookup
GET https://api.sk.ukrfish.org/api/ai/stats	Aggregates

Rate limit: 300 requests / 15 min / IP on /api/ai/*. Search/meta/stats responses cached 60s.

Example

User: Is the vessel УПС-4249 registered?

Agent calls: lookup_vessel {"registration_number": "УПС-4249"}
Response: { registration_number: "УПС-4249", name: "ua 5614 KV", owner_name: "ТОВ Соціальні ініціативи Запоріжжя", source: "registry", web_url: "https://sk.ukrfish.org/registry?vessel=УПС-4249", ... }

License

MIT

Disclaimer

This is an open-source MCP adapter for the public data of the Ukrainian vessel registries operated by SudnoKontrol. It is not an official government service.