openinsurance-wiki

A brain for a country's insurance market. A self-sufficient, open-source, country-agnostic framework that turns a nation's public insurance documents into a rich, interconnected, source-cited knowledge base that any AI agent can read.

Read it live: sluyasu.github.io/OpenInsurance - every page in this repo, browsable and searchable, no install.

Not a chatbot. Not a RAG black box. A transparent, reproducible knowledge graph: the repo contains the whole chain - it finds insurers' public general-conditions PDFs, downloads them, and turns each one into a faithful Markdown page that preserves the maximum of what the PDF actually says, with a citation back to the source - all cross-linked into a navigable graph of products, insurers, branches, regulations and concepts.

As far as we know, this is the only open-source, machine-readable, source-cited database of insurance products (the closest equivalents are commercial and closed). Point it at any country: the taxonomy is data, not code, and adding a country is a documented recipe (_meta/BOOTSTRAP-COUNTRY.md).

The dataset covers four countries - Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Switzerland - for a total of 39 insurers and 1,189 product pages (auto, home, health, liability, travel, legal protection, ...), each page cited to its source document:

The recipe was proven on Belgium first and has since been run three more times, which is what turned "country-agnostic" from a design claim into a tested one. Live counts are the generated coverage table in AGENTS.md, rebuilt from the data on every index run.

Use it in 2 minutes - no API key needed

The dataset ships in the repo, already built: 1,189 product pages across four countries, insurer pages, glossary, plus the structured JSON behind them. You only need an LLM key to re-extract from scratch, never to use it.

1. Read it. Online at sluyasu.github.io/OpenInsurance, or open the cloned repo as an Obsidian vault and the [[wikilinks]] become a navigable graph. (github.com itself does not render [[wikilinks]] as links - the site or the vault is the comfortable way.)

2. Plug it into an agent (MCP). The MCP server is keyless and read-only:

git clone https://github.com/sluyasu/OpenInsurance.git
cd OpenInsurance
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install "mcp[cli]" pyyaml

Then register it with any MCP client, e.g. Claude Code:

claude mcp add insurance-wiki -- "$(pwd)/.venv/bin/python" "$(pwd)/mcp/insurance_wiki_mcp.py"

(Or take the released server from PyPI - uvx openinsurance-wiki-mcp with INSURANCE_WIKI_REPO pointing at the clone; the in-repo server above is always the one matching the committed dataset.)

You get search, get_product, get_coverage (only what's relevant to one question, with verbatim quotes), compare_products, find_overlap (candidate duplicate cover when combining two policies), verify_claim (verbatim evidence for a fact-check), get_branch_overview, ... See mcp/README.md.

3. Take the raw data. data/<cc>/extracted/ holds one structured JSON per source document, validated against schema/; data/<cc>/index.json is the flat index (cc = be, fr, lu, ch). AGENTS.md is a generated manifest (note types, counts, per-page path / source_url / freshness) so a file-reading agent can navigate without guessing.

Related MCP server: PDF MCP Server

Why an MCP server (and not a chatbot, a RAG stack or a REST API)

The goal is that any AI agent can answer insurance questions from documents it can cite. That constraint picks the architecture:

Why MCP. The Model Context Protocol is the standard socket between AI assistants and data: one server, and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or your own agent plugs in with three lines of config instead of a custom integration. This server is keyless (no account, no API key, no quota), read-only, and needs zero hosting: the dataset is the repo itself, so the data travels with a git clone and works offline. When the wiki is re-extracted, git pull is the upgrade path.

Why not a RAG chatbot. A chatbot is a single interface; a knowledge base should serve many (a broker's comparison tool, a compliance check, a market-mapping agent). RAG adds an embedding index that is a black box: you cannot diff it, review it in a PR, or reproduce it, and its retrieval errors are invisible. Here the retrieval layer is deterministic matching over reviewed, committed files: the same query returns the same documents every time, and every answer carries the source PDF and page numbers. The LLM stays where it belongs, on the client side, reasoning over exact excerpts.

Why not a REST API. An API means a server running 24/7, uptime, keys, versioning, and one bespoke integration per consumer, for a dataset that changes a few times a year. MCP gives the same programmatic access at the cost of a local process.

How it works, in four stages:

1. Sources (sources/): committed YAML saying where each insurer's public PDFs live.

2. Frozen extraction (data/): each PDF turned once into structured JSON and cited Markdown, by a prompt that is itself committed. Nothing is generated at query time.

3. Deterministic MCP server (mcp/): 10 read-only tools over those files. No LLM inside, no network, no state. Same input, same output.

4. A reasoning client: the agent on top (Claude, a broker chatbot, a script) does the semantic work, quoting what the tools return.

The trust boundary is explicit: everything below stage 4 is reproducible and auditable. Hallucination risk is confined to the client, and the tool responses are shaped to keep that client honest: a grounding contract and a front-loaded citation line in every single-product response, refusal of ambiguous product names (with the candidates listed) instead of silent guessing, and a verify_claim tool so an agent can fact-check its own draft against the document before answering. See the response discipline notes in the server docs.

How fast. The server reads every file once and serves from memory: warm latencies run 0.01 to about 3 ms per tool on this dataset (measured, reproducible: mcp/README.md). In a real chatbot the time a user feels is the LLM's own inference, not these tools.

Why this exists

Insurance products are documented in dense PDFs scattered across dozens of insurer websites. There is no neutral, machine-readable, navigable map of what actually exists in a national market. This project builds one - as a public good, and in a form an AI agent can plug into.

It also plugs into a market that is standardizing around it: EU regulation 2017/1469 gives every non-life product a standardized summary (the IPID), EIOPA actively promotes product comparison and switching, and the open insurance agenda (OPIN, the EU FIDA proposal) pushes for machine-readable access to insurance data. This project is the missing public documents layer of that picture: what the products actually say, in the open.

Four things make it different:

1. Self-sufficient & reproducible. Clone it, add your own LLM key, run make all. It scrapes, downloads and extracts from scratch. No hidden datasets - every input is committed, every output is regenerable.

2. Transparent extraction. The exact prompt sent to the LLM is a file in this repo (extraction-agent/), not buried in code. You can read precisely what the model was asked, and run the identical extraction with your own model (Claude, Gemini, GPT, or a local model).

3. Grounded & cited. Every product page traces back to the source PDF and cites page numbers. Quotes are verified against the raw text. If it isn't in the document, it isn't on the page.

4. Scoped. A page is a contractual or pre-contractual document of a specific insurance product - nothing else. Insurers' download pages mix in company statutes, fund reports and promo riders; those are refused at three gates (a recorded out_of_scope marker in the sources, the extraction agent's own verdict, and a CI-blocking check). See CONTRIBUTING.

What's in the wiki

Per country (wiki/<cc>/, e.g. wiki/be/):

Generated and hand-authored pages live in separate folders and never collide: you fix a fact by editing the extraction data and rebuilding, never by editing a generated page.

The generated layer exists for all four countries; the hand-authored layer is uneven and deliberately not hidden. Belgium has branch, regulation and glossary pages; France and Luxembourg have branch pages and one regulation page each; Switzerland has neither yet. make validate lists every populated branch that still lacks an overview page. Universal concepts that apply to every country live in wiki/universal-glossary/.

Every page is Obsidian-compatible Markdown with YAML frontmatter and [[wikilinks]].

Reproduce it from scratch

This is the only path that needs an LLM key (the extraction step). Scraping and download use a free stack (httpx + Playwright).

git clone https://github.com/sluyasu/OpenInsurance.git
cd OpenInsurance
make setup                      # deps + playwright chromium (no paid scraping dependency)
cp .env.example .env            # set LLM_PROVIDER + your API key (any provider)

# Reproduce a slice end-to-end:
make download COUNTRY=be INSURER=<slug>   # fetch the public PDFs
make extract  COUNTRY=be INSURER=<slug>   # PDFs -> rich Markdown + JSON (uses YOUR model)
make build    COUNTRY=be                  # assemble the wiki
make validate COUNTRY=be                  # citation / wikilink / frontmatter gates

# ...or the whole chain:
make all COUNTRY=be

COUNTRY takes any country present in sources/: be, fr, lu or ch. Extraction is resumable (skip-existing keyed by source checksum + prompt version), so large runs can stop and restart safely.

How the pipeline works

sources/be/<insurer>.yml     (committed: where the public PDFs live)
        │  discover.py   crawl listing pages (httpx, Playwright fallback)
        ▼
data/be/pdfs/…               (downloaded; gitignored - regenerable; manifest.json committed)
        │  extract.py    PyMuPDF text  ──►  LLM (extraction-agent/ prompts)  ──►  MD + JSON
        ▼
data/be/extracted/…          (rich Markdown + structured JSON, page-cited)
        │  build_wiki.py
        ▼
wiki/be/…                    (the browsable, agent-readable knowledge base)

be is shown; the same layout exists under fr/, lu/ and ch/, and the code is the same for all of them.

Details: CONTRIBUTING.md (how to add a country / insurer / product) and extraction-agent/ (the exact prompts).

Every push runs the CI gates: wiki validation (frontmatter, links with --strict-links, citations, the data layer against the schema and the scope rule), the pytest suite, build idempotence (rebuilding the committed wiki must produce a zero diff), and a dead-link check on the built site that gates the deploy. A monthly workflow opens an issue when the dataset's freshness slips.

Add a country

1. sources/<cc>/_country.yml - regulator, languages, branch taxonomy.

2. sources/<cc>/<insurer>.yml - where each insurer's public PDFs live.

3. wiki/<cc>/ - hand-author branch/regulation/glossary overviews (or start them as stubs).

4. make all COUNTRY=<cc>.

Nothing in the schema is country-specific - the taxonomy is data, not structure. Four countries (be, fr, lu, ch) run through the same code with no per-country branch in the pipeline. One known limit: the product-page section titles are still hardcoded French in pipeline/render.py, so a country whose documents are not French-language will need them moved into the country config first.

Licensing & provenance

Dual-licensed: code (pipeline/, mcp/, adapters, schema) under MIT; original content (wiki/, extracted data, prompts, sources) under CC-BY-4.0. Short verbatim excerpts quoted from insurers' public documents remain the property of their publishers and are not relicensed - see LICENSE, LICENSE-CONTENT and NOTICE.

Product pages are a factual extraction from insurers' publicly published documents, attributed to each source PDF. They are not the insurers' official documents and may contain extraction errors - always verify against the cited source_url. This project provides information, not personalized insurance advice.