One line of config. Paste it into Claude, Copilot, or Cursor. The full FCA Handbook — with citations — is live inside your AI in under two minutes.
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI assistants securely connect to external data sources. The Rulebook implements MCP — so your AI can query the FCA Handbook directly, without you copying and pasting anything.
When you ask Claude a regulatory question, it calls The Rulebook MCP server, retrieves the relevant handbook paragraphs, and cites them in its response. All automatic.
The MCP server runs in our cloud. Your AI client connects to it over HTTPS. No Docker. No local process. No firewall exception.
We receive your query, look up the relevant rules, and return the result. We don't log firm-identifying information on the Free plan.
Sign up, copy your personal config line, and paste it into your AI client's MCP settings. That's it.
Use your work email. We generate a personal API key and a ready-to-paste config snippet.
Claude Desktop: Settings → Developer → Edit Config. GitHub Copilot: VS Code settings → MCP. Cursor: Cursor Settings → MCP.
One JSON block. Save. Restart if prompted. The Rulebook tool appears in your AI's tool list.
Ask anything FCA-related. Watch the citation appear automatically alongside the answer.
Start free. Upgrade when you stop wanting to count queries.
No. The Rulebook runs as a remote MCP server in our cloud. Your AI client connects to it over HTTPS. Nothing runs on your machine. No local process, no Docker, no port forwarding.
We use HTTP with Server-Sent Events (SSE), the standard remote MCP transport. All current MCP-compatible clients support this.
On Free: yes, each user has their own key. On Pro: you can provision keys under a shared team workspace, with centralised billing and usage reporting.
Your query text is sent to our server when the AI calls the MCP tool. We use it to retrieve the relevant handbook paragraphs and return them. On the Free plan we do not log queries. On Pro, queries are stored for 30 days to support change-alert features.
Yes. The MCP server endpoint is a single HTTPS URL. Add it to your allowlist and you're done. We can also provide a static IP range on request for Pro accounts.
50 queries per calendar month. Each conversation turn that calls the MCP tool counts as one query. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited queries.