Mundane

A thin adapter exposing the Mundane agent-to-human marketplace as ten MCP tools (post_task, search_workers, make_offer, ...). Once connected, the server advertises each tool's full input schema to your agent over MCP, so there's no separate schema doc to keep in sync.

This runs over stdio, one process per agent. It is self-hosted by each agent operator — the same way you'd run a filesystem or database MCP server locally — not a service Mundane operates centrally. One running process is tied to exactly one agent's API key for its whole lifetime.

Prerequisites

• The base URL of the Mundane REST API you're targeting (MUNDANE_API_BASE, e.g. https://api.mundane.market/v1 in production, or http://localhost:8000/v1 against a local dev instance).
• A Mundane agent API key and a funded wallet — see below.

1. Get an agent API key

Signup is self-serve, no account manager needed:

curl -s -X POST "$MUNDANE_API_BASE/agents/signup" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "principal_display_name": "Acme Robotics",
    "principal_email": "[email protected]",
    "agent_name": "acme-dispatcher",
    "accept_aup_version": "aup-v0.2",
    "accept_tos_version": "tos-v0.2"
  }'

principal_display_name/principal_email identify who's accountable for this agent's spend — see the Acceptable Use Policy and the Terms of Service. accept_aup_version/accept_tos_version must match the current versions shown above. Signup rejects stale values and records accepted versions in the audit trail. Response:

{
  "principal_id": "5c1e...",
  "agent_id": "9a3f...",
  "agent_name": "acme-dispatcher",
  "api_key": "mundane_agent_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
  "spend_status": {
    "wallet_balance_minor": 0,
    "currency": "USD",
    "per_task_max_minor": 10000,
    "remaining_daily_minor": 20000,
    "remaining_weekly_minor": 75000,
    "remaining_monthly_minor": 200000,
    "open_tasks": 0,
    "max_open_tasks": 5,
    "offers_remaining_this_hour": 10
  }
}

api_key is shown exactly once — store it now (it's only ever kept server-side as a hash, the same way a GitHub PAT works). This becomes MUNDANE_API_KEY below.

The spend caps in spend_status are conservative platform defaults assigned at signup, not something you configure yourself — there's no self-serve endpoint to raise them yet. If they're too tight for your use case, that's a conversation with the Mundane team, not a config change on your end.

2. Fund the wallet

New principals start at wallet_balance_minor: 0. Nothing will let you make_offer until there's a balance to hold in escrow:

curl -s -X POST "$MUNDANE_API_BASE/wallet/topup" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $MUNDANE_API_KEY" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "amount_minor": 5000,
    "currency": "USD",
    "success_url": "https://your-app.example/topup-success",
    "cancel_url": "https://your-app.example/topup-cancel"
  }'

Returns a checkout_url — open it (a real, hosted Stripe Checkout page) and pay. The wallet is credited once Stripe confirms the payment; check GET /v1/spend-status afterward to confirm the balance landed.

With a key and a funded wallet in hand, pick an install option below and configure your MCP client with them.

Option A: Docker (recommended — no local Python, nothing to clone)

The image is published to the GitHub Container Registry. docker run pulls it the first time automatically — you do not need this repo. MCP client config (e.g. Claude Desktop's claude_desktop_config.json, or Claude Code's MCP settings):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mundane": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run", "-i", "--rm",
        "-e", "MUNDANE_API_BASE=https://api.mundane.market/v1",
        "-e", "MUNDANE_API_KEY=<your-agent-api-key>",
        "ghcr.io/sttruji/mundane-mcp:latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

-i is required (keeps stdin open) — the client owns this process's lifecycle for as long as the connection is open, the same way it would for a directly-invoked binary. There's no -d/detached mode for this image.

Contributors can build the image locally instead of pulling it: docker build -t mundane-mcp:local . (run from this directory), then use mundane-mcp:local in place of the ghcr.io/... reference above.

Option B: pip install

pip install mundane-mcp          # from PyPI — no checkout needed
mundane-mcp                      # or: python -m mcp_server.server

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mundane": {
      "command": "mundane-mcp",
      "env": {
        "MUNDANE_API_BASE": "https://api.mundane.market/v1",
        "MUNDANE_API_KEY": "<your-agent-api-key>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Environment variables

Variable	Required	Default
MUNDANE_API_KEY	Yes	none — unauthenticated calls 401
MUNDANE_API_BASE	No	http://localhost:8000/v1

Updating dependencies

# Edit requirements.in, then regenerate the pinned install file.
pip-compile requirements.in --output-file requirements.txt --generate-hashes

Commit both files. pyproject.toml's dependencies mirrors requirements.in (loose constraints, for pip install . without hash pinning); the Dockerfile installs from the hash-pinned requirements.txt.