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kcp-harness — KCP compliance proxy MCP Server

MCP compliance proxy between agent and tools: deterministic governance, fail-closed, audit trail.

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Published as kcp-harness on npm. Runs locally.

Known issues

10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

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Governance plane — org-scale governance across agent fleets

Problem statement (discussion first)

Everything in kcp-harness today is per-session, per-proxy: one agent, one stdio proxy, one budget ledger, one temporal watcher. The industry is moving to fleets — many agents, long-running, operating for one org under one policy. That needs a governance plane:

  • Shared approval queue — one review surface for tickets from every agent (the file-based ApprovalProvider from #28 is accidentally the first step: it's already cross-process and rest

Read the thread · 2026-07-21 · open · 2 comments

Pending governance decisions — support human-approval gates, not just synchronous approve/block

Problem

Same governance pilot as the companion kcp-agent issue (Cantara/kcp-agent#93 — cross-referencing there for the fuller context). Part of the org's policy model requires that certain task types — not knowledge access, but actions an agent proposes to take — need a specific named human's sign-off before they proceed, not just an automated allow/deny. Example from the pilot: an agent may suggest changes to a customer record freely, but changing its formal status requires a named "a

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · 2 comments

Add Pi as a kcp-harness integration target

TL;DR: kcp-harness supports several MCP-capable coding agents but not Pi. Add a native Pi integration generator so projects can receive the correct MCP configuration and operating guidance without hand-authoring glue.

Acceptance criteria

  • Add kcp-harness integrate pi.
  • Generate the appropriate project-local Pi MCP configuration.
  • Generate concise agent operating guidance/skill content without duplicating governance logic.
  • Support dry-run and idempotent regeneration.
  • Add fixtur

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

Procedural conformance gate — "grounding for actions" (new ConformanceVerdict, into the #34 chain)

Problem

Grounding (ClaimVerdict) adjudicates what the agent asserted — each claim must trace to a loaded knowledge unit, content-hash matched; a hallucinated citation "proposes into a void." There is no analog that adjudicates what the agent did against the procedure it was authorized to follow.

An agent can claim "I followed the approved deployment procedure" and no deterministic layer checks whether its actual tool-call sequence stayed within that procedure's declared scope. Thi

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · closed · 1 comment

Classify skill/procedure invocation as a governed call + emit procedural audit events

Problem

The proxy's five-stage pipeline — RECEIVE → CLASSIFY → GOVERN (13 gates) → EXECUTE → AUDIT — classifies whether an MCP tool call targets governed knowledge (e.g. Read("docs/api.md") where docs/ is governed → planner; Read("package.json") → pass-through), and always governs KCP tool calls. It does not recognize an agent loading a procedure — a SKILL.md, a slash-command, a workflow definition — as a governed event.

So the fifth audit question — *"what playbooks did

Read the thread · 2026-07-22 · closed · 1 comment

Most recent

Harden the Claude Code PreToolUse hook — 5 governance bypasses (red-team)

Follow-up to #23. That fix made the hook fire (it read process.env.TOOL_INPUT which is never set); this issue is about how much the now-firing hook actually covers. I red-teamed the merged hook by executing it the way Claude Code does (payload on stdin) with evasion payloads.

Governed paths in the test: ["docs/", "fragments/"]. Baselines correctly deny (docs/api.md, ./docs/api.md, /abs/…/docs/api.md, docs//api.md, src/../docs/api.md). These slip through:

| Payload | Res

Read the thread · 2026-07-20 · closed · 0 comments

Emit decision traces (kcp_trace gate cascade) for dashboard ingestion

Cross-repo companion to Cantara/kcp-dashboard#2 (agent thought-graph, decision layer). Design doc: docs/thought-graph-phase2.md in kcp-dashboard.

Context

kcp-harness already computes a DecisionTrace (the deterministic 13-gate cascade per unit) on demand via kcp_trace (src/kcp-bridge.ts → traceDecision). But the audit log strips it (src/audit.ts:241 — "Omit full trace from audit (it's large); the trace is available via kcp_trace"), so nothing persists the why behind a gov

Read the thread · 2026-07-14 · closed · 0 comments

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