VS Code Pre-transaction Safety Checks (Tanod) Prompt/sanctions-check
How to: VS Code Pre-transaction Safety Checks (Tanod) sanctions-check
Add Pre-transaction Safety Checks (Tanod) to VS Code
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Open .vscode/mcp.json and merge this in. Keep any servers already there.
{
"servers": {
"security": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://tanod.dev/mcp/security"
}
}
}-
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Save the file and restart VS Code.
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sanctions-check is surfaced in the client's prompt or command menu. Unlike a tool, you invoke it deliberately — VS Code will not call it for you.
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If it does not appear, check that Pre-transaction Safety Checks (Tanod) is connected and that you are looking at its prompts rather than its tools.
Requires agent mode. MCP: Open User Configuration puts the same block in every workspace. VS Code docs
Same prompt, other clients
Read from the server itself, by connecting to it and calling prompts/list on 14 November 2026.
A listing does not declare its prompts, so asking is the only way to know them, and this
is what the server actually offers rather than what its listing claims. Names only are
stored; connect the server for each prompt's arguments.