# safeact-mcp

> Make any MCP tool exactly-once and auditable — one decorator on top of the MCP SDK.

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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/safeact-mcp/claim

## Declared
- publisher: Tarun Agarwal
- homepage: https://safeact.dev
- repository: https://github.com/tarunagarwal1981/safeact
- version: 0.0.1
- license: Apache License
                                   Version 2.0, …
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp, model-context-protocol, ai-agents, idempotency, exactly-once, tools, audit, safeact, tool-use
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:safeact-mcp

### Description (declared)

# safeact-mcp

**Make any MCP tool exactly-once and auditable — one decorator.**

Your MCP tools *do real things*: charge a card, send an email, book a slot. When
the agent crashes and retries — and agents crash and retry a lot — a naive tool
fires the action **twice**. And there's no record of what actually happened, so
you can't prove it or check it.

`safeact-mcp` fixes both, in one line on top of the MCP SDK.

```bash
pip install safeact-mcp
```

## Quickstart

```python
from mcp.server.mcpserver import MCPServer
from safeact_mcp import safe_tool

server = MCPServer("payments")

@server.tool()
@safe_tool(store="agent.db")
def charge_card(idempotency_key: str, customer: str, amount: int) -> dict:
    stripe.charge(customer, amount)          # the real, irreversible action
    return {"charged": amount}
```

That's it. Now `charge_card`:

- **Runs at most once per idempotency key** — even across crashes and retries.
- **Records every attempt** to a durable store — that's your audit trail.
- **Refuses to guess.** If the process dies *after* the charge but *before* it's
  recorded, the key is marked `IN_DOUBT` and the next call raises `InDoubtError`
  instead of blindly charging again. (An honest "we don't know, go check" beats a
  silent double-charge.)

## Reading the audit trail

```python
from safeact_mcp import audit_record, in_doubt

audit_record("agent.db", "order-42")   # the durable record for one call
in_doubt("agent.db")                   # keys stuck in the gap — your review queue
```

## The one honest limitation

MCP has no crash-safe idempotency key of its own. So the **caller supplies one**
via the `idempotency_key` argument — pass a *stable* value (e.g. your agent's
tool-call id) so retries deduplicate. No key → you still get the audit trail, but
not the exactly-once guarantee. We're upfront about that.

## How it works

`safeact-mcp` is a thin adapter over [**safeact**](https://github.com/tarunagarwal1981/safeact),
the correctness core (exactly-on…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- commerce.payments (1, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/safeact-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:27:40.441Z)

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