# Governance Gateway (pypi · governance-gateway)

Deadline-aware governance for AI agents: PII scan always, safety check if it fits the deadline

- Trust score: 51/100 (low)
- Change this week: 0
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- pypi · `governance-gateway`: 51/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `pypi`
- Package: `governance-gateway`
- Version: `0.1.1`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 50/100
  - Malware scan not yet available for this package.
  - No known CVEs affecting this package version or its production dependencies.
  - Runs hatchling.build at install time, a recognised build step with no custom scripting around it.
  - 1 of 28 dependencies flagged as unhealthy.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 32/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - License check failed: the license (MIT AND CC-BY-NC-4.0) isn't a recognized OSI-approved license.
  - Actively maintained (last published 8 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 76/100
  - 100% of prompts and resources have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the item's name).
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (fair).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 551 tokens (~78/item across 7 items; 5 tools + 2 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 0/100
  - Stability not yet verified: not enough scan history yet (needs a 30-day window).
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 5 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

**Unverified: 1 category.** A category scored 0 because we could not verify it: a data source with nothing on this package, evidence we could not reach, or a check we could not run. We only credit what we can confirm.

## Install

### How do I install the Governance Gateway MCP server?

Governance Gateway runs locally as a PyPI package, launched with uvx governance-gateway. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway -- uvx governance-gateway
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "governance-gateway"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "governance-gateway"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway -- uvx governance-gateway
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "uvx",
        "governance-gateway"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway --command uvx --arg governance-gateway
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway:
    command: "uvx"
    args: ["governance-gateway"]
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway": {
      "Transport": "stdio",
      "Command": "uvx",
      "Arguments": [
        "governance-gateway"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway -t stdio -c uvx -a governance-gateway
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "governance-gateway"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 51, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-10-30 (score 66, +15)

- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass

### 2026-10-28 (score 51, −15)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified

### 2026-10-27 (score 66)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (5)

### `check_message` (~95 tokens)

Check a text before acting on it: format, personal data (always) and safety (if time allows).

Returns the verdict ('allow', 'redact' or 'block'), the reasons, the redacted text when
personal data was found, whether the safety classifier ran, and the timing against the
deadline. The original text is never echoed back.

Input parameters:

- `deadline_ms` (number)
- `text` (string, required)

### `governance_status` (~30 tokens)

Requests handled so far: verdicts, lag (mean, p95), share on time, share skipped.

### `decision_matrix` (~140 tokens)

Which checking policy a pipeline needs at a given mean load (the project's decision matrix).

traffic: 'even', 'random' or 'bursty'. peak_factor: busiest-hour ratio q (1 = steady).
recall: the detector's recall with no queue; target: required share caught in time;
cost_share: the detector's share of checking cost; load: mean arrivals ÷ capacity.

Input parameters:

- `cost_share` (number)
- `deadline_ms` (number)
- `load` (number)
- `peak_factor` (number)
- `recall` (number)
- `target` (number)
- `traffic` (string)

### `simulate_load` (~114 tokens)

Race 'check everything' against the deadline-aware guard with measured check costs.

traffic: 'steady', 'rush_hour' or 'real_chatbot' (real WildChat timings). Returns, for
each guard, the final lag, harmful messages caught in time, the share of PII checks on
time and the share of classifier checks skipped.

Input parameters:

- `deadline_ms` (number)
- `load` (number)
- `seconds` (number)
- `seed` (integer)
- `traffic` (string)

### `recent_decisions` (~50 tokens)

The latest governance decisions, newest last: source, verdict, kinds of personal data
found, whether the classifier ran, and timing. The checked text is never included.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)

Output parameters:

- `result` (array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Install scripts, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 51
- 2026-11-04: 66
- 2026-11-03: 66
- 2026-11-02: 66
- 2026-11-01: 66
- 2026-10-31: 66
- 2026-10-30: 66
- 2026-10-29: 51
- 2026-10-28: 51
- 2026-10-27: 66

## Common questions

### What is the Governance Gateway MCP server?

Governance Gateway is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as io.github.tanishq-ctrl/governance-gateway. Deadline-aware governance for AI agents: PII scan always, safety check if it fits the deadline. This page covers its PyPI package (governance-gateway).

### Is the Governance Gateway MCP server safe to use?

Governance Gateway scores 51 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. We found no known CVEs affecting it as of 5 November 2026. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Governance Gateway MCP server expose?

Governance Gateway exposes 5 tools: check_message, governance_status, decision_matrix, simulate_load, recent_decisions. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 429 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Is the Governance Gateway MCP server still maintained?

Governance Gateway is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

### What licence is the Governance Gateway MCP server under?

Governance Gateway declares the MIT AND CC-BY-NC-4.0 licence, which is not on the OSI-approved list. Read the terms before using it at work, and note this covers the source only, not the cost of any service it calls.

## Links

- PyPI project: https://pypi.org/project/governance-gateway/
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/pypi/package/governance-gateway
- Repository: https://github.com/tanishq-ctrl/governance-gateway
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/tanishq-ctrl-governance-gateway/governance-gateway