> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.symmetry.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # STE MCP sample prompts > Prompts by role — for compliance analysts, customer support, implementation teams, payroll operations, and product managers — ready to copy into your AI assistant. Copy these directly into your AI assistant once connected. They are grouped by the role asking, since the same engine answers a compliance question and a support ticket quite differently. ## Tax and compliance analysts ### Validating a rate change > For pay date 2026-05-15, what taxes apply to location 42-003-1213644 (Pittsburgh, Allegheny)? I'm specifically looking for the Local Services Tax and EIT rate so I can verify our internal table. ### Tracking one rate over time > How has the federal Social Security rate moved over time? ### Previewing what changes on January 1 > What's changing for Ohio city taxes on January 1st next year? ### Comparing two engine releases > What changed in Ohio city tax rates between release 2026.8.2 and 2026.9.1? ### Comparing a release before you upgrade > Run this payroll against 2026.8.2 and 2026.9.1 and tell me which taxes moved. ### Checking a bracket schedule > Show me Ohio's full progressive withholding bracket schedule for 2026. ### Pinning a calculation to a version > Run the payroll tax calculation using version 2026.7.2. If no version is specified, the calculation uses the default version. ### Checking available engine versions > Show me the list of available STE versions. ## Customer support reps ### Debugging a wrong-number ticket > A client is reporting that the Ohio SUTA 2025 wage base isn't capping at \$9,000. Here's the payload from their ticket. Please replay it through STE and walk me through where the cap should have applied. ### Checking whether a benefit is pre-tax > Is an HSA contribution pre-tax for Pennsylvania state withholding? ## Implementation and onboarding teams ### Running a first calculation > Calculate semi-monthly payroll taxes for a \$3,000 regular wage in Pittsburgh, PA. Single, no dependents. ### Sanity-checking onboarding > Look up location codes for these three addresses \[paste]. For each, list the local taxes a new employee would face and tell me which ones the employee can opt out of versus which are mandatory. ### Finding a jurisdiction by name > List every school-district tax in Montgomery County, Ohio. ### Working back from a code on a client file > PSD code 450106 came in on a client file. What place is that, and which taxes sit behind it? ### Comparing jurisdictions side by side > Compare the state income tax rates for Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York as of today. ## Payroll operations leads ### End-of-quarter parity check > For this employee with \$87,500 YTD in PA and a \$5,000 bonus paid 2026-06-30, calculate Supplemental flat method and compare to combined-aggregation. I want to see the FICA + PA SIT + local difference. ### Comparing wage bases across states > Rank every state's unemployment wage base for 2026, highest first. ### Confirming a supplemental method > For a bonus paid 2026-11-15 in Georgia, what supplemental withholding method does the state allow, and at what rate? ### Confirming a state's rounding mandate > Does Michigan require whole-dollar rounding on state withholding? ## Product managers ### Prototyping a feature > Run the same \$3,000 regular wage in PA, NY, and CA semi-monthly, single, 1 exemption. Show me the federal + state + local totals side by side so I can design the UI for our multi-state preview. ### Sizing jurisdiction coverage > How many local jurisdictions does STE support in Pennsylvania, and is that every tax on the books or only the ones in force today? ## Next steps The full catalogue of what the STE MCP server can reach. Add and connect the STE MCP server in Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or Cursor.