Evlek — Northern Cyprus Property MCP Server

Evlek MCP Server

AI-native property discovery for North Cyprus (KKTC). Built on the Model Context Protocol — works in Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible client.

The Evlek MCP server gives AI agents structured, real-time access to North Cyprus property data — search active listings, compare cities and districts, and track the price index. All data is sourced live from evlek.app. Evlek does not offer a rental-yield or investment-return estimate: figures are descriptive asking-price facts only, never a valuation, forecast, or recommendation. Title-deed (koçan) and legal-procedure tools are deliberately not part of the surface: that taxonomy has not passed an independent KKTC legal audit.

License scope

This repository is MIT-licensed for the public manifest, documentation, examples, and reference clients contained here. The hosted Evlek service, evlek.app web app, mobile apps, listing database, AI prompts, business logic, brand assets, name, logo, and trade dress remain proprietary and are not licensed under MIT. See LICENSE for details.

Why Evlek MCP

• AI-first. Built for agentic workflows from day one — not retrofitted on a legacy listing API.
• Multilingual. Answers in TR, EN, RU, DE, AR: pass locale (or write the search query in that language) and the text, amenity names, number formats and links follow it. Place names are resolved in any of the five languages.
• Verification-aware listings. Evlek surfaces listing and account verification context where available, and the MCP omits contact fields to preserve Evlek's reveal/contact funnel.
• Built for the region. Optimized for the 6 cities of North Cyprus (Lefkoşa, Girne, Gazimağusa, İskele, Güzelyurt, Lefke) and 100+ districts.
• Production-grade. OWASP MCP Top 10 aligned — Zod input validation, output sanitization, rate limiting (60/min/IP, 500/min global), Sentry observability.

Quick start

Remote-capable clients (preferred)

Most modern MCP clients (Claude, Cursor, VS Code) connect directly to the Streamable HTTP endpoint — no local bridge needed:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "evlek": {
      "url": "https://evlek.app/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

ChatGPT (connector + Deep Research)

Add https://evlek.app/api/mcp as a custom connector. Evlek exposes OpenAI-compatible search and fetch tools, so it works in ChatGPT connectors and Deep Research in addition to developer mode.

Claude Desktop (legacy stdio bridge)

If your client only supports stdio servers, use the pinned mcp-remote bridge. Add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json (macOS) or %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json (Windows):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "evlek": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-remote@0.1.16", "https://evlek.app/api/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop. The "evlek" server appears in the tools list.

MCP Inspector (test before installing)

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector https://evlek.app/api/mcp

Direct API (cURL)

curl -X POST https://evlek.app/api/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

More configs: examples/

Local stdio server (this repository)

This repo is also a runnable MCP server. It answers initialize / tools/list entirely locally from the embedded tool contract (tools.json) and fetches live data from the Evlek data API when a tool is called. It only implements tools — it does not declare the resources or prompts capability, so resources/list and prompts/list return a normal MCP "method not found" error on this bridge; those primitives (see below) are hosted-endpoint-only, reachable via the Streamable HTTP URL above. It also speaks whatever MCP protocol version the pinned @modelcontextprotocol/sdk supports during initialize (currently 2025-11-25), not necessarily the hosted endpoint's 2026-07-28 — tool schemas are identical either way.

npx github:Evlek/evlek-mcp        # or: npm install && npm start

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "evlek": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "github:Evlek/evlek-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Smoke-test it (spawns the server and speaks real MCP over stdio):

npm test              # live: initialize + tools/list + a real tools/call
OFFLINE=1 npm test    # offline: introspection works with zero network

Available tools

8 tools · protocol 2026-07-28 · Streamable HTTP JSON-RPC 2.0

Every tool declares annotations: { readOnlyHint: true, destructiveHint: false, openWorldHint: false } — the whole surface is read-only.

Interactive widgets (MCP Apps / SEP-1865)

Five tools additionally bind a sandboxed HTML view (_meta.ui.resourceUri) that MCP Apps-capable hosts (Claude web/desktop) render inline in the conversation:

compare_listings, list_locations and convert_currency have no widget. The widget URIs moved from -v2 to -v3 in 3.0.0 so a host never serves a cached v2 template against v3 data.

Views are static, self-contained HTML — no bundler, no third-party JS. Listing data reaches them only at runtime over postMessage and is written with textContent, never innerHTML. CSP is declared per resource (_meta.ui.csp) and limited to the public listing-photo origin.

See TOOLS.md for full input schemas, parameter details, and response examples.

Resources (12) & resource templates (2)

resources/list returns 12 resources on the hosted endpoint — 9 read-only evlek:// data resources plus the 3 ui:// interactive-widget resources described above (pre-declared so a host can pre-cache them). Parameterized templates are separate, via resources/templates/list:

• Templates (2): evlek://price-index/{city} · evlek://district/{city}/{district}
• Data resources (9): per-city price indexes (girne, iskele, lefkosa, gazimagusa, guzelyurt, lefke), a sample district profile (Girne/Alsancak), and 2 orientation guides — evlek://guides/neighborhood-personas, evlek://guides/universities.
• Widget resources (3): ui://evlek/listing-cards-v3.html, ui://evlek/listing-detail-v3.html, ui://evlek/price-index-v3.html — see "Interactive widgets" above.

Renamed tools in 3.0.0 (deprecated aliases)

3.0.0 consolidates the 12 v2 tools into 8. The old names below are not in tools/list any more, but the hosted endpoint still answers them for one release: the call is translated to the new tool, runs it, and the result starts with a Deprecated: … Use <new> instead. line (plus structuredContent.deprecated). The aliases are removed in 3.1.0 — switch to the new names now.

Unchanged names: search_listings, search, fetch, list_locations, convert_currency. search_listings, list_locations and convert_currency gained new parameters and canonical names (e.g. transaction, priceMin/priceMax, sort, cursor, amount, locale) — see TOOLS.md. The v2 names type, maxPrice and price are still accepted on the hosted endpoint. Tools removed in 2.0.0 and earlier (get_yield_estimate, suggest_neighborhood, student_housing, get_market_overview, get_legal_info) still return a protocol error naming the replacement, not an alias.

Prompts (2)

• property_scenario — Illustrative Property Scenario with Separate Live Facts
• student_rental_scenario — Illustrative Student-Rental Scenario

Example prompts

• "Find 2-bedroom flats for rent in Girne under £1,500/month."
• "Show me apartments in Girne under £150,000."
• "What's the median sale price per square meter in Lefkoşa?"
• "Compare Kyrenia and Famagusta — which has more active listings and how do median asking prices differ?"
• "What does a district profile for Alsancak look like?"
• "Convert £150,000 to EUR, USD, and TRY."

Coverage

• Cities: 6 (Girne, İskele, Lefkoşa, Gazimağusa, Güzelyurt, Lefke)
• Districts: 100+
• Currency: GBP primary; TRY/USD/EUR normalized to GBP server-side using live daily exchange rates
• Tool descriptions: EN · Answers: TR · EN · RU · DE · AR (locale)

Architecture

The Evlek MCP server runs as a hosted endpoint at https://evlek.app/api/mcp. It speaks the Model Context Protocol over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0), protocolVersion 2026-07-28, and exposes tools, resources, resource templates, and prompts. Discovery metadata is published at /.well-known/mcp.json.

This repository contains:

• server.json — MCP Registry manifest
• tools.json — Live tool contract (what the local stdio server answers tools/list with)
• TOOLS.md — Full tool reference (JSON schemas + examples)
• CHANGELOG.md — Notable changes to the tool surface, including removed/renamed tools
• examples/ — Configuration files for Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code
• CONTRIBUTING.md — How to file issues and propose docs improvements

Sözleşme dosyaları (contract files)

• tools.json and TOOLS.md are a projection of the live server, generated by pnpm mcp:export-public in the source repo and copied here verbatim. Never hand-edit them; the Contract Drift workflow compares tools.json against the live tools/list daily and on every PR.
• server.json is not that projection. It is the MCP Registry publish manifest and must keep the registry shape: name is app.evlek/mcp-server (pattern ^[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+/[a-zA-Z0-9._-]+$) and description is at most 100 characters. A sync only updates its version, the tool count in description, and the _meta tool list. (Copying the export's own server.json here is what failed the v2.1.0 registry publish.)

The full server implementation (database schemas, API routes, AI prompt engineering, listing pipeline) is hosted at evlek.app and remains proprietary.

Security model

Per OWASP MCP Top 10: per-IP rate limit 60/min, global 500/min, 30s hard timeout, Zod input validation, output sanitization (prompt-injection defense), max 10 results per query, Supabase anon key + RLS, no stack traces leaked, Sentry observability.

To report a security issue, email hello@evlek.app.

Status

• MCP version: 3.0.0 (live)
• Protocol: 2026-07-28
• Primitives: 8 tools · 9 data resources + 3 interactive widget resources · 2 resource templates · 2 prompts
• Auth: none (public read-only)
• Endpoint: https://evlek.app/api/mcp
• MCP Registry: app.evlek/mcp-server

License

MIT — see LICENSE. MIT covers the public manifest, documentation, examples, and reference clients in this repository only (see License scope above). The hosted Evlek service (web app, mobile apps, listing data, AI prompts, database schemas, business logic) is proprietary.

Trademark notice: "Evlek" is a trademark of Onur Dokuzoğlu. The MIT license does not grant rights to use the "Evlek" name, logo, or branding except as described in this README. To request brand usage permission, contact hello@evlek.app.

Links

• Web: evlek.app
• iOS: App Store
• Android: Google Play
• MCP endpoint: https://evlek.app/api/mcp
• MCP documentation: evlek.app/mcp
• MCP Registry: app.evlek/mcp-server
• Model Context Protocol: modelcontextprotocol.io
• Contact: hello@evlek.app

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