# custody-mcp

> A governed, auditable agent gateway for oncology data workflows

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/custody-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/unmirihealth/custody
- repository: https://github.com/unmirihealth/custody
- version: 0.2.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agents, audit-log, governance, healthcare, mcp, oncology
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:custody-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Custody

Custody sits between an AI agent and the tools it uses on oncology data,
so the agent can work under controls a privacy or compliance officer can
actually review: data-aware policy, approval gates for anything sensitive,
a tamper-evident audit log, and isolated execution for every command.

```
Agent (Claude Code / Codex / OpenHands / Goose / any MCP client)
   |  MCP (stdio or streamable HTTP)
   v
Custody Gateway
   1. Identify principal + session
   2. Classify request (tool, datasets, data class, egress, model target)
   3. Policy engine  -> allow | deny | require_approval
   4. Approval broker -> wait for human decision (timeout = deny)
   5. Executor       -> sandboxed container
   6. Output guard   -> redact/summarize results by data class
   7. Audit log      -> hash-chained entry at every step
   |
   v
Custody's own tools: catalog.list, sql.query, shell.run, files.write,
files.export, approvals.status, fhir.search
```

Status: v0.1.0 tagged and public (285 tests, 96% coverage on
`src/custody`, `ruff` and `mypy --strict` clean); `main` carries
several items since merged in from ROADMAP.md (signed policy bundles,
an OPA policy backend, a Kubernetes deployment, a FHIR connector, an
S3 Object Lock audit sink, an egress allowlist proxy, OIDC-verified
approver identity) -- see CHANGELOG.md's `[Unreleased]` section for
exactly what, and for what shipped in v0.1.0 itself. One scope note:
the architecture above describes a gateway that can also proxy a
downstream MCP server's tools, that proxying is **not implemented**,
every tool call this release handles goes through one of the
built-ins listed above (see `custody/mcp_server.py`'s module
docstring).

## Quickstart (under 5 minutes to the demo, Docker required)

From a clone of this repository (not yet published to PyPI):

```bash
git clone <this repo>
cd custody
uv sync --extra dev
docker build -f docker/sandbox.Dockerfile -t custody-sandbox:duckdb .
uv run custody demo
```

`custody demo` generates a…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- infra.cloud (1, derived)
- dev.version-control (0.791, derived)
- dev.ci-cd (0.779, derived)
- dev.terminal (0.745, derived)
- data.database (0.733, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/custody-mcp/ (first seen 2026-10-24T17:27:06.624Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/custody-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/custody-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:custody-mcp