# keystone-mcp

> Keystone Harness Manager — the end-to-end harness manager for any project. MCP server that owns the full lifecycle: scaffold, sensors, actions, playbooks, skills, cascade verify, and forward-only shipped-template patches.

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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/keystone-mcp/claim

## Declared
- homepage: https://github.com/tacoda/keystone-mcp
- repository: https://github.com/tacoda/keystone-mcp
- version: 0.2.0
- license: MIT
- protocols: mcp
- tags: agent, broker, claude, claude-code, context, fastmcp, harness, mcp, rules
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:keystone-mcp

### Description (declared)

# keystone-mcp — Keystone Harness Manager

The **Keystone Harness Manager** is the end-to-end harness manager for any
project. It's a single MCP server (`keystone-mcp` on PyPI) that owns the
full lifecycle of a project harness:

- scaffold + materialize a shipped template tree under
  `.keystone/harness/`
- broker rules, reasoning, skills, and commands from any external source
  (markdown, folder, repo, GitHub, Confluence, Notion, Jira, Linear,
  Slack)
- run computational and inferential sensors as blocking checks
- resolve a cascade across external sources and the project layer
  (canonical locks, required gaps, conflicts, unreachable items)
- apply forward-only shipped-template patches as the manager evolves
- drive Learning + Pruning flywheels via shipped playbooks and skills
- overlay the agent menu file (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, …) without
  clobbering any pre-existing user content

The agent treats each retrieved payload differently:

- **rules** — constraints to obey (`must` / `should` / `may`)
- **reasoning** — background facts and intent
- **skills** — procedural how-to knowledge (multi-step playbooks)
- **commands** — canned invocations (shell commands, scripts, named recipes)

Instead of cramming organizational context into every system prompt, the agent
reads `keystone://context/{topic}` resources or calls `keystone_get_context(topic)` and the
broker fans the request out to the right backing source.

## Status

**0.2.0.** Pre-1.0; the package name on PyPI stays `keystone-mcp`.
Phases 1–28 shipped per [`FEATURE_PARITY_PLAN.md`](./FEATURE_PARITY_PLAN.md)
and [`CHANGELOG.md`](./CHANGELOG.md). 361 tests pass.

## Adapters

Source types (`type:` in `.keystone/context.yaml`):

| Type | Auth | What it emits |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `markdown` | none (repo-local) | one markdown file per query — rules / reasoning / skills / commands |
| `folder` | none (repo-local) | walks a local directory tree of markdown. Globs (`include` / `exclude`) |
| `repo` | (optional, dep…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.terminal (0.836, derived)
- productivity.notes (0.825, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)
- dev.project-management (0.756, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/keystone-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-09T22:23:20.418Z)

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