Bicameral MCP

bicameral-mcp is the MCP transport client for the local bicameral-bot daemon. It exposes agent-friendly tools, maps them into canonical ToolRequest envelopes, sends those requests to the daemon, and returns daemon ToolResponse payloads.

MCP is not the Bicameral daemon, Decision Ledger, code graph, dashboard, integration runtime, setup wizard, telemetry sink, or governance engine.

Current Contract

The cutover target is the bot-owned ToolRequest protocol:

MCP tool call
  -> ToolRequest(command + AuthorityContext)
  -> bicameral-bot daemon validation and governance policy
  -> ToolResponse(status + result + governance_result)

MCP performs a daemon capability handshake at startup. It refuses to start when the daemon's ToolRequest protocol version is unsupported. After protocol compatibility is established, individual commands may still return daemon capability errors while bot parity is being implemented.

Configuration

Set the bot daemon endpoint with:

export BICAMERAL_DAEMON_URL=http://127.0.0.1:37373

Optional context:

export BICAMERAL_ACTOR_ID="$(whoami)"
export BICAMERAL_WORKSPACE="$PWD"
export BICAMERAL_POLICY_SCOPE=default

Run the MCP server:

bicameral-mcp

Print supported tool names without contacting the daemon:

bicameral-mcp tools

Supported Tools

MCP exposes only ToolRequest-backed tools:

Prompts And Skills

MCP may expose MCP prompts for generic Bicameral workflows over supported tools, such as preflight, binding, ingest, history, and search.

Repo-local skills are outside MCP. Keep repo/team behavior in repo skills: when to run Bicameral, which ADRs to read, contribution policy, factory attestation, and workflows that span beyond Bicameral MCP.

Retired From MCP

The v0.2 direct MCP payload surface is not preserved. Removed or unsupported legacy behavior includes:

• link_commit
• ratify
• resolve_collision
• remove_decision
• remove_source
• validate_symbols
• get_neighbors
• setup wizard, reset, update, diagnose, usage, feedback, and telemetry
• dashboard hosting
• local ledger/event/graph/source/integration runtimes

Missing bot-backed behavior is intentionally unavailable in MCP rather than emulated locally.

Previous implementation history can be inspected at:

0827444c80d45fe3474f68002166e1fc35708eda

Development

Focused cutover checks:

python -m pytest tests/test_toolrequest_thin_client.py -q
python -m build