Actuary Assistant
Ask Claude your actuarial questions, with several thousand French actuarial dissertations behind it.
On actuarial topics, Claude reads the dissertations to find how the work was actually done — on real portfolios, under real regulation, with the data available — and cites what it uses. You can also ask it to find the dissertations covering a subject.
Set up once, in two minutes
A Claude account is enough, including a free one. Nothing to install, no API key.
- Open claude.ai and sign in.
- In the left sidebar: Customize, then Connectors.
- Click +, then Add custom connector.
- Paste this URL:
https://actuaryassistant.com/mcp/mcp - Click Add again on the next screen. Claude shows options for authentication, OAuth client and transport — leave all of them as they are, they are detected from the server. Nothing to fill in.
- Sign in with Google or by e-mail (you get a sign-in link, no password to create), then enter the access code you were given.
- When Claude asks how to handle the tools, Always allow is the comfortable choice: both tools only read — they search and return text, and cannot change anything. Picking Ask every time also works; you will simply confirm each search.
After that, turn the connector on in a conversation using the + button below the message box.
What Claude can do with it
- Answer your actuarial questions better. This is the main use. Ask anything about actuarial practice — how to calibrate a lapse model, what to watch for in a Solvency II health SCR — and Claude combines what it already knows with how French actuaries actually did it in the dissertations: methods applied on real portfolios, data constraints, calibration choices, pitfalls. Behind the scenes it reads the relevant passages, so allow up to a minute.
- Find dissertations on a topic. "Which dissertations cover…" returns titles and summaries, instantly.
- Read what a dissertation did. Claude pulls the actual text of the dissertations that best answer a question, and quotes it. Up to a minute, as above.
Ask your questions as you normally would. Claude decides on its own when to read the dissertations, and there is no need to name the connector: doing so does not make the answer better. You can tell it used the corpus when the answer shows a tool block such as Searched actuarial theses above the text. If it answered from memory and you wanted the dissertations — above all when you want to know how this was actually done in practice, in real companies — just say so: "Use Actuary Assistant", and it will go through them.
Questions to try
What to expect
- Allow up to a minute when Claude reads the full text of the dissertations. Searching by topic is instant.
- These are student dissertations. Their value is in the method: how a problem was framed, which techniques were tried, what went wrong. Their conclusions are one practitioner's work at one point in time — Claude says so when a dissertation looks dated or contradicts current practice.
- Both tools are read-only. They search the corpus and return text — they cannot write, change or delete anything, on your side or ours. That is declared to Claude, which is why granting them "Always allow" costs you nothing.
- Your questions are not shared. The service counts calls per account for quotas, nothing more.
Access is by invitation. Codes are personal and single-use — once a code is linked to an account it will not work for anyone else. Ask for access.