neurodock-mcp-guardrail 0.0.4

NeuroDock guardrail MCP server — rumination, hyperfocus, and sycophancy detection.

neurodock-mcp-guardrail

Clinical guardrails MCP server for NeuroDock. Detects three patterns that unmodified LLM interaction tends to amplify for neurodivergent users: rumination loops (OCD), unregulated hyperfocus (ADHD), and sycophancy / over-validation. See ETHICS.md and MANIFESTO.md for the full framework.

Status

• v0.0.2: All three detectors are live.

  • check_rumination — word-overlap Jaccard heuristic.
  • check_hyperfocus — elapsed-threshold-with-end-of-day heuristic.
  • check_sycophancy — four-pattern overlap heuristic.

  Heuristics are public and auditable; thresholds are defaults, not prescriptions. See ADR 0006 for the rationale.

Tools

Tool	Status	Heuristic	Default thresholds
check_rumination	live (v0.0.1)	word_overlap_jaccard	window 90 min, count 3, similarity 0.55
check_hyperfocus	live (v0.0.2)	elapsed_threshold_with_eod	60 / 90 / 120 minutes
check_sycophancy	live (v0.0.2)	pattern overlap (4 patterns)	similarity 0.5

Design invariants

• Stateless. The server persists nothing — no SQLite, no JSONL, no in-memory caches that survive a call. Callers supply all history.
• No telemetry, no network sockets. Per ETHICS.md commitment 4.
• No user content in logs. Only tool_invoked metadata is logged.
• Override-token vocabulary is closed at v0.1.0. New tokens require a minor bump and sign-off per ADR 0006 §3 and §10.
• Heuristics are auditable. Source for each heuristic lives in src/neurodock_mcp_guardrail/heuristics/. Changes there require sign-off per ETHICS.md commitment 3.

Usage

# Run the server over stdio (via the console script):
neurodock-mcp-guardrail

# Or smoke-test the build directly:
python -c "from neurodock_mcp_guardrail import server; print(server.app.name)"

Tests

uv run pytest packages/mcp-guardrail/tests/ -v

Tests cover:

• The Jaccard heuristic (identical, disjoint, stopword-only, paraphrase, case-insensitivity, punctuation handling).
• The check_rumination tool (empty history, in-window detection, out-of-window non-detection, threshold honour, override-token contract, history-ordering rejection, false-positive-feedback path).
• check_hyperfocus (escalation level mapping, end-of-day strictness, idle-signal handling, override-token contract, schema conformance).
• check_sycophancy (each of the four patterns, counter-prompt generation, override-token contract, schema conformance).
• Protocol conformance: every tool response is validated against the schema files in schemas/.

License

AGPL-3.0-or-later.