# mcp-sluice

> Passthrough MCP server that materializes tool results into a DuckDB scratch database

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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/mcp-sluice/claim

## Declared
- repository: https://github.com/miles-automation/sluice/issues
- version: 0.2.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: duckdb, mcp, model-context-protocol
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:mcp-sluice

### Description (declared)

# Sluice

A passthrough MCP server. It sits between an MCP client and **exactly one**
downstream MCP server, mounts the downstream tools, and proxies calls through.
Every eligible result is materialized into an in-memory DuckDB scratch database
before being returned, so the agent gets a short preview plus a table handle
instead of the payload, and runs SQL over it with Sluice's own `query` tool.

Two things this buys: aggregation becomes exact rather than a model reading
rows out of a payload, and an eligible payload is replaced by a bounded handle,
so it is not re-sent on later turns of the agent loop. Error, binary, and
over-ceiling results deliberately pass through unchanged.

## Status

The current release, [v0.2.1](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-sluice/0.2.1/),
is available from PyPI. Do not use 0.2.0 with DuckDB 2.0: its query gate can be
bypassed through a CTE (see `CHANGELOG.md`). Proxying, envelope/handle recording, flattening and
type inference, the read-only `query` gate, aggregate-correctness properties,
bounded runtime retention, final adversarial review, and bounded pagination
for approved read-only tools (spec 002) are implemented and covered by the
test suite. The reproducible live-model demo recorded one
baseline miss (71.5) and one Sluice-backed exact answer (72.5); that sampled
run is evidence, not a deterministic guarantee.

CI runs the full test, lint, formatting, strict type-check, and package-build
gates. The end-to-end canary against a real configured GitHub MCP server passed;
its evidence is in `review/canary-v0.1.0.md`. The project is distributed as
`mcp-sluice`; the Python import package and console command remain `sluice`.

Read `spec/001-scratch-db.md` before changing behavior; `intent/` records why
the non-goals are non-goals; `plan/001-notes-m0.md` holds the measured
third-party behavior the design rests on.

**Behavioral baseline verified against:** MCP protocol `2026-07-28`, SDK `mcp`
2.1.1, DuckDB 2.0.0 and 1.5.5, CPython 3.14. Behav…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.database (1, derived)
- dev.package-management (0.768, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/mcp-sluice/ (first seen 2026-09-10T04:23:06.062Z)

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