# kcp-harness

> kcp-harness — cantara-kcp-harness. Use this tool when you need to enforce compliance and governance in AI agent decision-making, ensuring transparent and auditable interactions. The kcp-harness proxy solves problems related to knowledge governance, budget tracking, and approval management by routing tool calls through a 14-gate planner. It takes in AI agent requests, generating audit logs, budget ledgers, and approval tickets as output, making it ideal for use cases requiring strict regulatory adherence and accountability.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/cantara-kcp-harness  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/cantara-kcp-harness

## Description

An MCP compliance proxy that enforces deterministic knowledge governance for AI agents, routing tool calls through a 14-gate planner and generating audit logs, budget ledgers, and approval tickets.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.67
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-08-29

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** ai-ml
- **Updated:** 2026-08-29

## Source

- **Source listing:** [Glama](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers/o57nce9rt1)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/Cantara/kcp-harness>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "cantara-kcp-harness"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/cantara-kcp-harness` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/cantara-kcp-harness/pull`

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