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Senzing Cookbook · One-time setup

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Welcome to the Senzing Cookbook: build a working Senzing solution, fraud, customer-360, compliance, and more, using an AI coding assistant. No code, just plain-English prompts.

“Getting set up is like hiring your kitchen staff — do it once, and then you can cook any recipe.”

The cookbook runs on one analogy. You’re the chef, picking the recipe and directing the work. Your AI assistant (e.g., Claude Code) is the sous-chef, doing the hands-on cooking. The Senzing MCP is the kitchen staff, specialists who know every Senzing task, so a recipe only needs to say what to do. You bring the ingredients, your data, and the recipe gets cooked.

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Set your expectations
this first-time setup is the part that takes a while — plan for up to an afternoon if these tools are new to you. Once it’s done, running a recipe is quick (often ~30 minutes), and you never repeat setup.

What you’ll need

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Tool

An AI coding assistant that supports MCP

Any MCP-capable assistant works; the recipes were built and demoed with Claude. Two easy paths:

Claude Code (terminal or VS Code)

full power: it builds and runs everything a recipe needs. It asks you to approve each action (it can touch anything on your machine, so you confirm as you go — or turn on auto-accept).

Claude desktop app

gentler: runs in a sandbox and mostly doesn’t prompt, and it’s easy to add the Senzing MCP. Trade-off: it can’t start a local web server, so a recipe’s “web visualizer” step comes back as an HTML report instead — still fully explorable.

Others that work

Kiro (Senzing is built in as a Kiro power), Cursor, ChatGPT (Codex), etc.

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You’ll need a paid plan — e.g. Claude Pro (~$20/mo). The free tier won’t run Claude Code, which is what trips up most first-timers.

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Connect

The Senzing MCP

Add it to your assistant once:

Kiro

already built in — enable the Senzing power in Kiro’s Powers panel.

Claude Code

run the command below.

Claude desktop app

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, URL https://mcp.senzing.com/mcp (full copyable version below).

Any other MCP-capable agent

add a remote/HTTP MCP server at https://mcp.senzing.com/mcp.

Command · Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user senzing https://mcp.senzing.com/mcp

Connector URL · Desktop app / other agents
https://mcp.senzing.com/mcp
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License

A Senzing license

a g2.lic_base64 file. No license yet? Ask the Senzing MCP to request a free evaluation license — a 10-day, 250K-record trial emailed to your work email (or get one at senzing.com).

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Even on the desktop path you’ll still approve a few things — e.g. “OK to use the Senzing MCP tool?” That’s normal.

Ready to cook

With setup done, pick a recipe and get cooking!

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