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Model Context Protocol server for the Guard ecosystem: config validation, docs search, and corpus tooling for agents and developers.

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Ecosystem

Guard Core is the Python engine. Framework adapters are thin wrappers that translate native request/response types into Guard Core's protocols. The telemetry agents ship security events and metrics to the monitoring backend. Parallel engine implementations exist for Go, PHP, TypeScript (on npm), and Rust (on crates.io) - all ports of the same reference semantics, conformance-tested against the shared adversarial corpus.

Python

Package Role PyPI
guard-core Framework-agnostic security engine PyPI
guard-agent Telemetry agent PyPI
fastapi-guard FastAPI / Starlette adapter PyPI
flaskapi-guard Flask adapter PyPI
djapi-guard Django adapter PyPI
tornadoapi-guard Tornado adapter PyPI

Go

Go modules published via GitHub releases. Production-ready.

Package Role Release
guard-core-go Go engine release
nethttp-guard net/http adapter release
gin-guard Gin adapter release
echo-guard Echo (v4) adapter release
fiber-guard Fiber (v3) adapter release
guard-agent-go Telemetry agent release

PHP

Published on Packagist under the rennf93 vendor. Production-ready.

Package Role Packagist
guard-core-php PHP engine Packagist
laravel-guard Laravel adapter Packagist
symfony-guard Symfony adapter Packagist
psr15-guard PSR-15 adapter Packagist
slim-guard Slim 4 adapter Packagist
guard-agent-php Telemetry agent Packagist

TypeScript / JavaScript

Published under the @guardcore npm scope; source in the guard-core-ts monorepo. Production-ready.

Package Role npm
@guardcore/core Core engine
@guardcore/express Express adapter npm
@guardcore/nestjs NestJS adapter npm
@guardcore/fastify Fastify adapter npm
@guardcore/hono Hono (edge) adapter npm
guardagent Telemetry agent npm

Rust

Published on crates.io. Production-ready.

Package Role crates.io
guard-core-engine Core engine crate crates.io
guard-core-rs Facade crate (consumer entry point) crates.io
actix-guard-rs Actix Web adapter crates.io
axum-guard-rs Axum adapter crates.io
tower-guard-rs Tower adapter crates.io
rocket-guard-rs Rocket adapter crates.io
guard-agent-rs Telemetry agent crates.io

AI Coding Agents

Package Role PyPI
guard-core-mcp MCP server: config validation, docs search, detection sandbox PyPI

Documentation

📚 Documentation - full technical documentation for this package.

🛡️ Guard Core - the engine's reference documentation.

🤖 Monitoring Agent Integration - monitor your Guard instance with a monitoring agent.


Why

Your agent can already read the docs. What it cannot do is tell you that the redis_failopen in your config is silently doing nothing because the real field is redis_fail_open, or that the flag you are reaching for did not exist until guard-core 3.5.0, or whether a given request would actually be blocked and by which pattern.

This server answers those from the installed package: real pydantic validation, real field metadata, and the real detection engine. It also answers the cross-language questions the libraries cannot answer: which package guards a Gin, Fastify, Laravel or Rocket app, whether it is tagged or still path-dependent, how to wire its telemetry agent, and what response codes the SaaS ingest endpoint returns.

Install

Install it into your project's environment, not as an isolated tool:

uv add --dev guard-core-mcp
claude mcp add guard-core -- uv run guard-core-mcp

uvx guard-core-mcp will start, but an isolated environment contains no guard-core or fastapi-guard for it to introspect, so it can only answer from bundled documentation. Running it inside your own environment is what makes the answers match the versions you actually ship.

Tools

Tool Answers
versions Which Guard libraries are installed here, and at what version
validate_config Is this config valid, including typo'd keys pydantic silently ignores
config_fields What is this setting, what does it default to, does a setting for X exist
search_docs Where do the docs cover this
get_doc The full text of one documentation page
check_payload Would this request be blocked, and by which pattern
ecosystem The full registry matrix: 5 languages, engines, adapters, agents, conformance, SaaS contract
adapter_setup Install plus a verified minimal integration for one adapter (e.g. go + gin)
wire_agent How to set up the telemetry agent for a language, including the ingestion contract

The ecosystem tools are pure data, so they work everywhere, with or without the Python libraries installed. Every quick-start snippet is copied verbatim from the sibling repo READMEs, and release_status tells you honestly whether a package is published, tagged, or still untagged (source, main, or path dependency only).

ChatGPT plugin

The same tools are also served remotely at https://mcp.guard-core.com/mcp and packaged as a ChatGPT plugin: sign in with a guard-core account, and ChatGPT can validate configs, search the docs and run payloads through the hosted detection engine (the latest published releases, not your local versions). The packaging lives in plugin/, the hosted server in guard_core_mcp.hosting, and the full story (env vars, Docker image, developer-mode test loop, submission checklist) in the ChatGPT plugin guide.

Licence

MIT

mcp-name: io.github.Guard-Core/guard-core-mcp

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