Odgs MCP Server

Open Data Governance Standard (ODGS) — MCP Server

Deterministic governance enforcement at the AI agent boundary.

For engineers: See Quick Start below, or the guided walkthrough at metricprovenance.com/start.

For compliance and risk officers: The ODGS engine generates cryptographic audit trails (S-Certs).

For architectural clearance and certified packs: metricprovenance.com/#suite

See it in action

Eight ISO/IEC 38505-1 & ISO/IEC 25012 pillars scored in about ten minutes — real MCP server, real maturity engine, click to watch on GitHub.

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ODGS MCP Server v0.3.4 — Maturity Diagnostics + Certified Pack Access

governance_score now delegates to the `odgs-maturity` 8-pillar ISO/IEC 38505-1 & ISO/IEC 25012 engine.

Regulatory compilation, drift detection, and catalog synchronisation require a Certified Pack licence.

The community tier — validation, scoring, conformance checking — remains open with no registration.

Core Capabilities

The European Data Governance Maturity Benchmark 2026 recorded an average maturity of 37.6% across 99 enterprises — a 62.4% gap against current regulatory expectation. governance_score applies the same assessment methodology to your project.

What This Is

The ODGS MCP Server connects any MCP-compatible AI agent to the ODGS Sovereign Validation Engine. The engine evaluates data operations against governance rules at runtime and produces S-Certs (Sovereign Certificates) — cryptographically signed, machine-verifiable records that a governance rule was applied.

This is the bridge between probabilistic AI inference and deterministic governance enforcement.

EU AI Act & High-Risk AI Systems

Organisations operating High-Risk AI Systems under EU AI Act Articles 10 and 12 require demonstrable, auditable data governance at the pipeline level. S-Certs provide that audit trail in a format suitable for regulatory submission.

Certified Sovereign Packs and the S-Cert Registry are available through Metric Provenance certified implementation partners. For architectural assessment: metricprovenance.com/#suite.

Capabilities

• Runtime validation: Data payloads are evaluated against sovereign governance rules at call time; each evaluation produces a signed S-Cert.
• Governance maturity scoring: 8-pillar ISO/IEC 38505-1 & ISO/IEC 25012 assessment (0–100) with per-pillar gap analysis, aligned to the European Governance Maturity Benchmark methodology.
• Regulatory compilation *(licensed)*: Converts legislative text — EU AI Act, DORA, GDPR — into validated ODGS rule JSON.
• Semantic drift detection *(licensed)*: Identifies definitional drift between governance artefacts across versions.
• Enterprise catalog integration *(licensed)*: Harvests and mints sovereign rules from Databricks, Snowflake, and Collibra via the Flint Bridge.

Quick Start

# Core validation capabilities (free, no account needed)

pip install odgs-mcp-server

With maturity scoring

pip install odgs-mcp-server odgs-maturity

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.

Claude Desktop

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" } } } }

</details>

Cursor

Add to .cursor/mcp.json:

{

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

</details>

Licensed Tool Access

Regulatory compilation, certified packs, and catalog synchronisation require a Certified Pack licence. Provide the issued API key in your client configuration:

"env": {

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

**Enterprise Rollout & Certified Packs** — see [metricprovenance.com/#suite](https://metricprovenance.com/#suite) or read the [Executive Brief](https://metricprovenance.com/executive-brief):

Tools Reference

Community (Free — no API key required)

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] Maturity[odgs-maturity\n8-pillar ISO 38505/25012] LLM[OdgsLlmBridge] Flint[Flint Bridge] end

Reg[(S-Cert Registry\nregistry.metricprovenance.com)] Project[(Local ODGS Project)]

Agent -- "JSON-RPC (stdio)" --> Auth Auth -- "Validate Key (HTTPS, cached 24h)" --> Reg Auth --> Val Auth --> Maturity Auth --> LLM Auth --> Flint

Val -- "Reads Rules" --> Project Val -- "Generates" --> SCert[S-Cert] Maturity -- "Scores pillars" --> Project LLM -- "Compiles Regulations" --> Project Flint -- "Harvests Sovereign Rules" --> Project

Certified Regulation Packs

Cryptographically signed rule bundles, each mapped to a specific regulatory instrument. Packs are compiled from authoritative legislative text and certified by Metric Provenance.

*Full catalogue of 15+ packs. Licensing and deployment via metricprovenance.com/#suite.*

Environment Variables

About ODGS

The Open Data Governance Standard (ODGS) is an open protocol for deterministic data governance enforcement. ODGS is on a path toward formal standardization.

• Protocol specification — pip install odgs
• PyPI package
• Research paper (SSRN 6205478)
• Metric Provenance

Licence

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE.

The protocol engine and MCP server are open source. Certified Regulation Packs are issued under a commercial licence.