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Sanctions Check — OFAC SDN Screening

Search the OFAC Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) sanctions list by name, alias, address, or ID. Token-indexed for accurate partial-name matches across 19K entries. Pay-per-event: charged per query plus per match found, no subscription. Built for KYC and supplier screening.

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0.1.5 — 2026-07-24 (publish-prep: store metadata + README revamp, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

Store metadata set via API (actor stays PRIVATE, isPublic: false unchanged): title → "Sanctions Check — OFAC SDN Screening", description (277 chars, value-prop + pay-per-event), seoTitle (50 chars), seoDescription (151 chars), categories → ["BUSINESS", "AUTOMATION", "AGENTS"] (no GOVERNMENT/DATA/FINANCE category exists on the platform), exampleRunInput → {"mode":"query","query":"MADURO","searchType":"all","maxResults":10}. Every field set and GET-verified individually via apify api PUT acts/rydQC6qeiSyc0DdhZ.
README revamped to the store-listing quality bar (matching trustpilot-reviews-scraper/README.md): added a pay-per-event value-prop lead, expanded use cases (KYC/customer onboarding, supplier due diligence, AI-agent MCP tool, LatAm due-diligence pairing with cuit-lookup/licitaciones-feed), a real example output record (the "MADURO MOROS, Nicolas" match from the build 0.1.4 platform validation run), a corrected pricing table and real-world cost examples reflecting that each query is one run (input takes a single string, not a batch array), an "Use with AI agents" / MCP section, and a dedicated Compliance section (OFAC SDN source URL, public-domain status, update cadence caveat). No code changes; npm run build re-run for hygiene (bundle output unchanged in content).
Actor-start pricing derived from defaultMemoryMbytes: 2048 (2 GB) using the platform's documented "1 event per GB, min 1" rule: recommend console eventPriceUsd of $0.0005 for apify-actor-start, giving a $0.001 total actor-start charge per run — sized to roughly cover the measured ~$0.0004-0.0005/query compute cost (see 0.1.4 entry) rather than the much larger ~$0.03 refresh compute cost, since refresh is intended as a scheduled/operational action, not a per-customer-query cost. Full PPE event table (event keys, titles, descriptions, prices) written to handoff/sanctions-check-publish.md for the owner's console session — not yet applied, since PPE pricing/publish requires the owner (agents cannot set pricing or publish per repo guardrails).
Icon still missing (pictureUrl: null): scripts/upload-icons.ts's token-in-URL approach to Apify Console does not authenticate — https://console.apify.com?token=... redirects straight to /sign-in (verified this session with a scoped copy of the script run against sanctions-check + sentinel-monitor only). Apify Console uses a real login session, not the API token, so this needs either an interactive browser session (owner logs in once, script reuses the session/cookie) or manual upload via Console → Actor → Settings → General → icon upload. Icon file is ready at .actor-icons/sanctions-check.png.

0.1.4 — 2026-07-24 (index redesign, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

Fixed the publish-blocking bug from 0.1.3: query mode's shard selection was structurally incapable of finding partial-name matches (records sharded by sha256(full name), queries sharded by sha256(query text/words) — the two essentially never collide). Redesigned the index as a token-based inverted index: src/index-store.ts now normalizes each record's name, aliases (AKAs), address city/country, and ID numbers into uppercase, diacritic-stripped tokens at ingest, and writes a (token, uid) ref into a token shard (tok-<2 hex>, 256 shards, keyed sha256(token)) for every distinct token. Full record data is written exactly once per record into a separate record shard (rec-<2 hex>, 256 shards, keyed sha256(uid)) — this keeps the index size close to the raw record size instead of duplicating a full record once per token (records average ~6-8 distinct tokens; naive per-token duplication would have inflated KVS bytes written ~6-8x). Query mode tokenizes the query, unions candidate uids across all query-token shard hits (recall-favoring — a screening tool shouldn't silently drop a candidate that only matched one query word), fetches the specific candidate records (grouped by record shard to minimize reads), and reuses the existing scoreMatch/substring-fuzzy logic (extracted into a new scoreRecord function) to rank and filter by minScore.
The old shard-<hex> KVS keys from the v1 format are left in place as harmless orphaned dead weight (not actively purged, to avoid ~256 extra KVS reads on every refresh); shardKeyForName is retained only as legacyShardKeyForName for documentation/history, no longer used by main.ts.
Honest limitation documented: shard retrieval is by whole token, not arbitrary substring — a query for "MADUR" (a sub-word fragment that is never itself a complete word in the index) will not retrieve candidates, even though "MADURO" is indexed. Once a candidate is retrieved via any full-token hit, substring/prefix scoring still applies across the whole query string for ranking. See README "Honest limitations".
Tests: added 41 new tests (tests/sanctions-check.test.ts grew from 47 → 88 tests; combined with the unchanged 5 in tests/download.test.ts, suite total is 93, up from 52) covering: tokenization (normalizeToken, tokenize, diacritics, punctuation, dedup, min-length), tokensForRecord (name/alias/address/ID token extraction), shard-key functions (recordShardKey, tokenShardKey, KVS charset legality), token-shard codecs and findUidsForToken, scoreRecord, and a full end-to-end regression suite (describe('token-index end-to-end query pipeline')) that builds an in-memory index via the exact ingest pipeline and proves: (1) querying "MADURO" now finds the "MADURO MOROS, Nicolas" record (the exact case proven broken live in 0.1.3) with a sensible score, (2) retrieval also works via other name words and alias tokens, (3) multi-word queries union candidates, (4) unrelated records are correctly excluded, (5) a synthetic negative-control name ("ZZQXWV FOOBARIAN") returns zero results cleanly, and (6) the documented sub-word-fragment limitation behaves as specified. All 93/93 tests green, typecheck clean.
Platform validation (build 0.1.4, 3 of 4-run budget used):
- Run 1 — full refresh (uuroUyxKCbxgvm49m): downloaded 27.5 MB, parsed 19,241 entries → 256 record shards (11.05 MB) + 256 token shards (9.70 MB, 308,017 token refs), exit 0/SUCCEEDED. Duration 43.8s / cost $0.0308 — materially worse than the 0.1.3 baseline (22.5s / ~$0.016), roughly 2x, because this refresh now writes 512 KVS shards instead of 256 (record shards + token shards vs. one combined shard). Still cheap in absolute terms (~$0.03/refresh; a daily scheduled refresh costs ~$1/month) and refresh is not currently a billed event.
- Run 2 — query "MADURO" (ZmZvQSUWXes0L1dH8): 4 matches, including "MADURO MOROS, Nicolas" (uid 22790, VENEZUELA + IRAN-CON-ARMS-EO programs) — the exact record proven unreachable in 0.1.3. Also correctly surfaced "MADURO GUERRA, Nicolas Ernesto", "FLORES DE MADURO, Cilia Adela", and "FELIX B. MADURO S.A." — all genuine OFAC records containing the token MADURO. Exit 0/SUCCEEDED, duration 3.3s, cost $0.00048.
- Run 3 — negative control "ZZQXWV FOOBARIAN" (4dMt9h3CY1CXRZZxn): 0 candidate uids, 0 matches, clean exit 0/SUCCEEDED (not an error). Duration 2.2s, cost $0.00031.
- Run 4 held in reserve, unused — no fix-and-retry cycle was needed.
- Measured per-query cost: ~$0.0004-0.0005 in Apify compute-unit terms (excludes the platform's own PPE cut and the apify-actor-start memory-based event). At the previously suggested sanction-screened price of $0.003, that implies a gross margin of roughly 83-87% — consistent with the prior 85-90% estimate; no pricing change recommended based on this data.

0.1.3 — 2026-07-24 (platform validation, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

Fixed: downloadToBuffer only followed a single HTTP redirect hop. The real OFAC SDN download chain redirects TWICE (treasury.gov → sanctionslistservice.ofac.treas.gov → signed S3 URL), so every mode=refresh run failed on the platform with Redirect download failed with status 302 (confirmed via platform run hqffPOqhrtSDShCdp, build 0.1.2). Extracted the download logic into src/download.ts as a loop that follows up to maxRedirects (default 5) hops, with dependency-injected get for testability. Added 5 regression tests (tests/download.test.ts) covering 0/1/2-hop chains, redirect-limit exhaustion, and non-200 terminal status. 52/52 tests green, typecheck clean. Redeployed as build 0.1.3; refresh re-validated on platform (run zh72vTVaQ3kCtIiHz): downloaded 27.5 MB, parsed 19,241 SDN entries into 256 KVS shards in 22.5s, exit 0.
Found, NOT fixed — publish-blocking: query mode's shard-selection is structurally broken for its advertised "substring match" / "fuzzy scoring" behavior. Each record's KVS shard key is sha256(record.name) where record.name is the full "lastName, firstName" string, but a query only searches the shard(s) keyed by sha256(query text) and sha256(each query word). Since a partial query's hash essentially never equals the hash of a matching record's full name, real substring queries silently return zero matches. Reproduced live: querying "MADURO" against the freshly-refreshed index returned 0 matches (platform run LztCEX0y0RrEkbRoA, exit 0/SUCCEEDED — a false negative, not a crash), even though "MADURO MOROS, Nicolas" (OFAC SDN, VENEZUELA program) is indexed — confirmed present via direct KVS read of shard-4e, while the query's computed shard was shard-c1. This is a structural indexing redesign (token/prefix-based sharding or full-scan-and-filter), not a patch, and re-validating a fix would require another refresh + query run beyond this session's 3-run platform budget. Do not publish until this is redesigned and re-validated.

0.1.0 — 2026-07-23

Initial build. Refresh mode downloads + indexes OFAC SDN XML. Query mode provides substring name search with fuzzy scoring. 47 tests.

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0.1.5 — 2026-07-24 (publish-prep: store metadata + README revamp, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

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Changelog

0.1.5 — 2026-07-24 (publish-prep: store metadata + README revamp, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

0.1.4 — 2026-07-24 (index redesign, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

0.1.3 — 2026-07-24 (platform validation, Claude Sonnet worker agent)

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