INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

recommend_canton

Personal canton recommendation ("Where should I live in Switzerland?"): weight 5 categories 0–3 (cost = rent/premiums/electricity; tax = income tax/fiscal balance; work = jobs/unemployment/migration; env = sunshine/crime/vacancy; health = hospital capacity) and get all 26 cantons scored by the transparent percentile method of the Swiss Living Quality Index.

swisslivingindex.chnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for recommend_canton and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Inferred read-only · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

No write-capable action terms were found; this is not proof that invocation has no side effects.

Parent server

swisslivingindex.ch

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.swiss-living-index]
url = "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-living-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: swiss-living-index
Remote MCP URL: https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "swiss-living-index": {
      "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "swiss-living-index": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "swiss-living-index",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://swisslivingindex.ch/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

list_metrics — List available metrics for the 26 Swiss cantons (key, label, unit, source, what higher/lower means).
get_canton — Get all metric values for one canton.
rank_by_metric — Rank all cantons by a metric.
compare_cantons — Compare 2–4 cantons across all metrics.
commune_tax — Live income+wealth tax for a specific commune & household (official ESTV, year 2026).
search_commune — Find Swiss communes by name or postcode (official ESTV location register).
estimate_net_move — Estimate the net yearly CHF impact of moving between two Swiss communes for a household: live commune-level tax (official ESTV 2026) plus canton-average rent and health-premium differences.
get_trend — Historical year-series for a metric in one canton (e.g.