Open Data Governance Standard (ODGS) — MCP Server

Runtime governance enforcement for any AI agent.

For engineers: See Quick Start below.
For compliance, legal, or procurement teams: Your organisation may already be running ODGS.
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Why ODGS MCP?

Every AI agent that touches regulated data needs a compliance conscience. ODGS provides the industry's only open standard that produces cryptographic audit certificates (S-Certs) — machine-verifiable proof that governance rules were evaluated at runtime.

This server puts that enforcement capability inside any AI agent's tool context, bridging the deterministic governance engine with probabilistic AI agents.

Features

• Runtime Validation: Validate data payloads against sovereign governance rules in real-time.
• Flint Bridge Integration (Enterprise): Allow your agent to harvest, extract, and auto-mint sovereign rules from enterprise catalogs.
• LLM Bridge (Pro): Compile raw legal text (EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR) into enforceable machine rules.
• Drift & Conflict Detection: Automatically detect semantic drift in governance definitions and resolve regulatory contradictions.
• Audit Narratives: Convert cryptic S-Certs into human-readable compliance reports.

Quick Start

# Core validation capabilities
pip install odgs-mcp-server

# Complete installation with LLM bridge capabilities
pip install "odgs-mcp-server[llm]"

Client Configuration

The server operates over standard stdio transport, making it instantly compatible with any MCP client.

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "odgs-governance": {
      "command": "odgs-mcp-server",
      "args": ["--transport", "stdio"],
      "env": {
        "ODGS_PROJECT_ROOT": "/path/to/your/odgs/project"
      }
    }
  }
}

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "odgs-governance": {
      "command": "odgs-mcp-server",
      "args": ["--transport", "stdio"],
      "env": {
        "ODGS_PROJECT_ROOT": "/path/to/your/odgs/project"
      }
    }
  }
}

Pro & Enterprise Authentication

To unlock regulatory compilation, certified packs, and catalog synchronization, provide your ODGS API key:

"env": {
  "ODGS_API_KEY": "sk-odgs-...",
  "ODGS_PROJECT_ROOT": "/path/to/your/odgs/project"
}

Get your API key at platform.metricprovenance.com.

Tools Reference

Community (Free)

Professional (API Key Required)

Enterprise (API Key Required)

Architecture

The ODGS MCP Server is designed for zero-trust, local-first execution. All data validation happens strictly on your machine. No sensitive data leaves your perimeter.

flowchart TB
    Agent[AI Agent\nClaude/Cursor/Custom]
    
    subgraph "ODGS MCP Server"
        Auth[AuthGate]
        Val[OdgsInterceptor v6]
        LLM[OdgsLlmBridge]
        Flint[Flint Bridge]
    end
    
    Reg[(ODGS S-Cert Registry)]
    Project[(Local ODGS Project)]

    Agent -- "JSON-RPC (stdio)" --> Auth
    Auth -- "Validate Key (HTTPS, cached 24h)" --> Reg
    Auth --> Val
    Auth --> LLM
    Auth --> Flint
    
    Val -- "Reads Rules" --> Project
    Val -- "Generates" --> SCert[S-Cert]
    
    LLM -- "Compiles Regulations" --> Project
    Flint -- "Harvests Sovereign Rules" --> Project

Certified Regulation Packs

Pre-built, cryptographically signed rule bundles for immediate compliance enforcement:

Full catalog of 15+ packs available via platform.metricprovenance.com. For pricing and enterprise licensing, contact partner@metricprovenance.com.

Environment Variables

About ODGS

The Open Data Governance Standard is a sovereign enforcement protocol that validates data operations against governance rules at runtime — not retroactively. It produces cryptographic S-Certs (Sovereign Certificates) that serve as machine-verifiable audit trails.

• ODGS Documentation
• ODGS on PyPI
• Research Paper (SSRN)
• Partner Platform

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

The ODGS engine and MCP server are open source. Certified Regulation Packs are commercially licensed.