OpenContext — Anchorage Open Checkbook fork

This fork of OpenContext deploys the Anchorage Open Checkbook MCP (anchorage_checkbook plugin) — read-only tools over the Municipality of Anchorage's unaudited expenditure, payroll, procurement, and revenue tables, with the dataset's traps (duplicate double-loads, snapshot dates, net amounts, unnormalized vendor names) encoded in tool behavior. See docs/CHECKBOOK.md and METHODOLOGY.md — this server's totals deliberately differ from the public MOA dashboard (duplicates are filtered by default).

Quick Start

# 1. Configure (this fork ships its config ready to go)
cp config-anchorage-checkbook.yaml config.yaml

# 2. Test locally
pip install aiohttp
python3 scripts/local_server.py

# 3. Deploy
./scripts/deploy.sh --environment staging

Connect via Claude Connectors (same steps on both Claude.ai and Claude Desktop):

1. Go to Settings → Connectors (or Customize → Connectors on claude.ai)

2. Click Add custom connector

3. Enter a name (e.g. "Boston OpenData") and your API Gateway URL

Get the URL: cd terraform/aws && terraform output -raw api_gateway_url

See Getting Started for full setup.

Related MCP server: USAspending MCP

Documentation

Examples

• Boston OpenData (CKAN): examples/boston-opendata/config.yaml

• Custom plugin: examples/custom-plugin/

Contributing

Pre-commit hooks (optional):

pip install pre-commit
pre-commit install

Hooks: Ruff, yamllint, gofmt. Run manually: pre-commit run --all-files.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

Author: Srihari Raman, City of Boston Department of Innovation and Technology