OFAC Screening SDK
A software development kit that embeds sanctions screening capability directly into applications, reducing integration complexity.
TL;DR
TL;DR: An OFAC screening SDK packages the screening API into a language-native library so developers can call it in a few lines of code. It handles authentication, retries, and response parsing so the application can focus on the outcome.
What an SDK gives you
Calling a screening API directly means managing HTTP requests, authentication, error handling, and response parsing by hand. An SDK wraps those details into typed functions, so a check becomes a single method call that returns a clean or blocked result. This reduces integration mistakes, which is exactly the kind of bug that causes a false negative and an undetected violation.
What to look for
- Coverage of the languages your agents and services use.
- Built-in retries and a fail-closed default on errors.
- Support for both name and wallet checks.
- Documentation that shows the ALLOW and BLOCK paths clearly.
In the agent payment stack
An SDK is especially useful where agents run across frameworks. sanctionsai.dev integrates with x402, MCP, Base/USDC, Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, LangChain, CrewAI, Eliza, the OpenAI Agents SDK, and Coinbase AgentKit, and its MCP server installs with pip install sanctions-mcp. That breadth lets a single screening capability sit behind many different agents without a bespoke integration for each one.