Liminate Authoring

Help your AI agent author the Agreements that govern it.

Part of the Liminate family — trust infrastructure for autonomous AI, built on a 61-word prose-as-syntax language.

liminate-mcp is a standalone MCP server that lets AI agents validate, explain, draft, and test Liminate Agreements — and translate compliance documents into Agreement drafts via the Liminate platform. It never installs an Agreement. Installation onto an enforcement surface (like ~/.seshat/agreement.limn) is always a human or Seshat-governed action, never this server's.

Built by Liminate

	Repo	What it does
	seshat-app	Local agent harness. Enforces Agreements deny-by-default.
	liminate	The language and interpreter. 61 words, deterministic execution, domain packs.
	liminate-invariant	Semantic verification harness. Deterministic claim-verification correction loop.
← this repo	liminate-mcp	Authoring MCP server. Helps an agent write the Agreements that govern it.

→ liminate.dev

Tools

Five tools run entirely on your machine, against the local liminate interpreter — no network calls, no account required:

Tool	Cost	What it does
validate_agreement	free	Parse and semantically check an Agreement. Errors vs. unbound evidence references, annotated separately.
explain_clause	free	Plain-English explanation per clause: verb, condition, rationale, temporal window, exception.
draft_agreement	free	Assemble an Agreement from structured rules, or return a vendored template. Always validates its own output.
test_agreement	free	Run an Agreement against sample evidence; returns a decision (blocked / incomplete / needs_review / passed).
list_templates	free	The five vendored Agreement templates: EDGAR revenue check, quarterly earnings brief, publication review, student assignment review, vendor invoice review.

One tool calls the platform:

Tool	Cost	What it does
translate	paid	Converts a compliance document (text/markdown/url) into an Agreement draft via the liminate.dev Translate API. Requires LIMINATE_API_KEY (liminate.dev/keys); bills against that account. Always returns a fidelity manifest — review it before installing the draft anywhere.

Install

Requires Python 3.11+.

pip install liminate-mcp

Or from source:

git clone https://github.com/rmichaelthomas/liminate-mcp.git
cd liminate-mcp
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

MCP client config

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "liminate-authoring": {
      "command": "liminate-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Set LIMINATE_API_KEY in your environment (or the MCP client's env block) to use translate. The five local tools work with no key and no network access.

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.

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The interpreter is the trust root. Every draft is validated before it's handed back — never installed, never assumed.