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mcp_harness-0.1.0/CHANGELOG.md

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+# Changelog
+
+All notable changes to `mcp-harness` are documented here. The format follows
+[Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/) and the project adheres to
+[Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).
+
+## [Unreleased]
+
+## [0.1.0] - 2026-06-27
+
+Initial public release. v0.1 MVP plus the surrounding governance core.
+
+### Added
+- **Core** — `Harness` with an onion middleware pipeline that is fully decoupled from the MCP
+  SDK. `@harness.tool()` registration, `harness.dispatch()` for direct/testing invocation, and
+  `harness.run()` which integrates with the official `mcp` SDK (FastMCP) when installed.
+- **`Harness.from_fastmcp(server, ...)`** — wrap an existing `FastMCP` server, routing its
+  already-registered tools through the governance pipeline while preserving their input schemas.
+  The one-line "add governance to the server I already have" path.
+- **CLI scaffolding** — `mcp-harness wrap <server.py>` generates a governed companion file for an
+  existing FastMCP server (original untouched), and `mcp-harness init [name]` scaffolds a new
+  governed server.
+- **Auth** — `AnonymousAuth` (default), `APIKeyAuth` (with rotation hook + principal resolver),
+  `ChainedAuth`, and an experimental `AzureADAuth` (JWT validation, requires the `auth` extra).
+- **Governance** — `CostTracking` (token counting, pluggable pricing, cost-center resolution,
+  pluggable sinks), `Quotas` (per-principal token bucket, per-team caps, per-tool concurrency),
+  and `AuditLog` (async, non-blocking, shape-only records).
+- **Observability** — `StructuredLogging` (JSON + correlation ids), `OTELTracing` (optional,
+  `otel` extra), `Metrics` (Prometheus when available, else in-memory).
+- **Policy** — `AllowList` / `DenyList` (YAML-loadable, optional argument constraints) and a
+  basic `PIIRedactor`.
+- **Resilience** — `CircuitBreaker` and `Retry` decorators for individual tools.
+- **Testing** — `HarnessTestClient`, `MockPrincipal`, and pytest fixtures (auto-registered as a
+  pytest plugin).
+- **CLI** — `mcp-harness daily-rollup` to produce per-cost-center spend reports from cost JSONL.
+- Examples: `quickstart_server.py`, `local_governed_server.py`, `azure_governed_server.py`.
+
+[Unreleased]: https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/compare/v0.1.0...HEAD
+[0.1.0]: https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/releases/tag/v0.1.0

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: mcp-harness
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Enterprise governance middleware for MCP servers: cost attribution, auth, observability, quotas, audit, and policy — composable around the official MCP Python SDK.
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/issues
+Project-URL: Changelog, https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
+Author: Nagendra Shukla
+License-Expression: Apache-2.0
+License-File: LICENSE
+Keywords: cost-attribution,enterprise,governance,mcp,middleware,model-context-protocol,observability
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: System Administrators
+Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.10
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.13
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Application Frameworks
+Classifier: Topic :: System :: Monitoring
+Classifier: Typing :: Typed
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Requires-Dist: pyyaml>=6.0
+Provides-Extra: all
+Requires-Dist: cryptography>=41; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.2.0; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-api>=1.20; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.20; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-sdk>=1.20; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: prometheus-client>=0.19; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: pyjwt>=2.8; extra == 'all'
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.5; extra == 'all'
+Provides-Extra: auth
+Requires-Dist: cryptography>=41; extra == 'auth'
+Requires-Dist: pyjwt>=2.8; extra == 'auth'
+Provides-Extra: azure
+Requires-Dist: azure-eventhub>=5.11; extra == 'azure'
+Requires-Dist: azure-monitor-opentelemetry>=1.2; extra == 'azure'
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: build>=1.2; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.2.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: mypy>=1.10; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio>=0.23; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=8.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: ruff>=0.5; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: twine>=5.0; extra == 'dev'
+Requires-Dist: types-pyyaml>=6.0; extra == 'dev'
+Provides-Extra: metrics
+Requires-Dist: prometheus-client>=0.19; extra == 'metrics'
+Provides-Extra: otel
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-api>=1.20; extra == 'otel'
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-exporter-otlp>=1.20; extra == 'otel'
+Requires-Dist: opentelemetry-sdk>=1.20; extra == 'otel'
+Provides-Extra: redis
+Requires-Dist: redis>=5.0; extra == 'redis'
+Provides-Extra: server
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=1.2.0; extra == 'server'
+Provides-Extra: tokens
+Requires-Dist: tiktoken>=0.5; extra == 'tokens'
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+
+# mcp-harness
+
+**Enterprise governance middleware for MCP servers.** Cost attribution, auth, observability,
+quotas, audit, and policy — composable around the official [MCP Python SDK](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk).
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcp-harness.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-harness/)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/mcp-harness.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-harness/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+
+---
+
+## Why this exists
+
+Most public MCP servers are toy examples. The gap between *"works on my laptop"* and *"I can ship
+this to 500 engineers under SOC 2, GDPR, and a Finance team that wants per-business-unit cost
+allocation"* is enormous — and almost none of that gap is in the protocol. It's in the boring
+middleware around it.
+
+`mcp-harness` **is** that middleware. It doesn't fork the protocol, doesn't reinvent the SDK, and
+doesn't try to be an agent framework. It's a set of composable decorators and middleware that wrap
+the official SDK so the resulting server can be safely run inside a company.
+
+The headline use case: **your CFO asks who's spending the AI budget, and you can answer by end of
+week one.**
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install mcp-harness            # core pipeline (no MCP SDK required)
+pip install 'mcp-harness[server]'  # + the official MCP SDK, to actually serve tools
+pip install 'mcp-harness[all]'     # + OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, tiktoken, JWT
+```
+
+The core middleware pipeline has **no hard dependency** on `mcp`, so you can unit-test all your
+governance behaviour without a transport. Install the `server` extra to run a live server.
+
+## Hello, governed world
+
+The same MCP server you'd write anyway, with the governance layer declared once at the top:
+
+```python
+from mcp_harness import Harness
+from mcp_harness.auth import APIKeyAuth
+from mcp_harness.governance import CostTracking, Quotas, AuditLog
+from mcp_harness.observability import OTELTracing, StructuredLogging
+from mcp_harness.policy import AllowList
+
+harness = Harness(
+    name="customer-data-mcp",
+    auth=APIKeyAuth(keys={"sk-finance": {"id": "svc-reports", "team": "finance"}}),
+    middleware=[
+        OTELTracing(service_name="customer-data-mcp"),
+        StructuredLogging(),
+        AllowList.from_yaml("policies/tool-access.yaml"),
+        Quotas(per_principal_per_minute=60),
+        CostTracking(
+            cost_center_resolver=lambda p: p.team,
+            sink="jsonl://costs.jsonl",
+        ),
+        AuditLog(sink="jsonl://audit.jsonl"),
+    ],
+)
+
+@harness.tool()
+async def search_customer(customer_id: str) -> dict:
+    """Find a customer record by ID."""
+    return {"id": customer_id, "name": "ACME Corp"}
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    harness.run()  # stdio by default; transport="streamable-http" for HTTP
+```
+
+Then attribute spend:
+
+```console
+$ mcp-harness daily-rollup costs.jsonl
+cost_center     calls      in_tok     out_tok      cost_usd
+----------------------------------------------------------
+finance            42        5\,210       9\,830        0.1284
+platform           18        1\,940       3\,110        0.0451
+----------------------------------------------------------
+TOTAL              60        7\,150      12\,940        0.1735
+```
+
+## How it works
+
+A tiny **onion middleware pipeline**, decoupled from the SDK. `@harness.tool()` registers your
+function; calls flow through each layer and into your tool. The same path runs whether the call
+arrives from a live MCP client or from the in-process test client.
+
+```
+client ─▶ FastMCP ─▶ wrapper ─┐
+                              ├─▶ auth ─▶ policy ─▶ quotas ─▶ tracing ─▶ cost ─▶ audit ─▶ your tool
+test/direct ─▶ dispatch ──────┘
+```
+
+Each layer is independently useful, independently testable, and opt-in. Adopt just `CostTracking`,
+or stack the whole thing.
+
+## Modules
+
+| Module | What you get |
+| --- | --- |
+| `mcp_harness.auth` | `APIKeyAuth` (with rotation), `AnonymousAuth`, `ChainedAuth`, experimental `AzureADAuth` (Entra ID JWT) |
+| `mcp_harness.governance` | **`CostTracking`** (tokens → \$ → cost center), `Quotas` (rate / team cap / concurrency), `AuditLog` (async, shape-only) |
+| `mcp_harness.observability` | `StructuredLogging` (JSON + correlation ids), `OTELTracing`, `Metrics` (Prometheus or in-memory) |
+| `mcp_harness.policy` | `AllowList` / `DenyList` (YAML, argument constraints), `PIIRedactor` |
+| `mcp_harness.resilience` | `CircuitBreaker`, `Retry` decorators for individual tools |
+| `mcp_harness.testing` | `HarnessTestClient`, `MockPrincipal`, pytest fixtures |
+| `mcp-harness` CLI | `daily-rollup` per-cost-center spend reports |
+
+Optional integrations degrade gracefully: `OTELTracing` is a no-op (warned once) without the
+`otel` extra; `Metrics` falls back to an in-memory backend without `prometheus-client`; cost token
+counting uses a heuristic without `tiktoken`.
+
+## Testing your server
+
+Governance is covered by ordinary unit tests — no transport, no mocks of the SDK:
+
+```python
+from mcp_harness.testing import HarnessTestClient, MockPrincipal
+from myserver import harness
+
+async def test_finance_can_search(harness_client):  # fixture auto-registered
+    client = harness_client(harness, principal=MockPrincipal("svc-a", team="finance"))
+    assert await client.call("search_customer", {"customer_id": "c-1"})
+```
+
+## Examples
+
+- [`examples/quickstart_server.py`](examples/quickstart_server.py) — smallest governed server.
+- [`examples/local_governed_server.py`](examples/local_governed_server.py) — full stack, zero
+  cloud deps. Run `python examples/local_governed_server.py --demo` to watch the governance layers
+  reject calls in real time.
+- [`examples/azure_governed_server.py`](examples/azure_governed_server.py) — the design's
+  Azure-centric reference server.
+
+## Scope
+
+**In scope:** auth, observability, cost attribution, quotas, audit, policy, resilience, testing.
+
+**Out of scope (by design):** agent orchestration, a UI/dashboard, a tool registry, and anything
+that breaks MCP wire-compatibility. A library that does a few things well beats one that does
+fifteen poorly.
+
+## Compatibility & status
+
+- Python **3.10+**. Wraps the official `mcp` SDK (`FastMCP`) without modifying the wire protocol.
+- **Beta (v0.1).** The `Harness`, auth, `CostTracking`, `Quotas`, observability, `AllowList`, and
+  `AuditLog` APIs are real and tested. Cloud sinks (Azure Monitor, Event Hubs, Kinesis, Kafka),
+  Redis-backed quotas, `SchemaGuard`, and `AzureADAuth` hardening are extension points — base
+  interfaces ship, full wiring is on the roadmap. See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE).

mcp_harness-0.1.0/README.md

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+# mcp-harness
+
+**Enterprise governance middleware for MCP servers.** Cost attribution, auth, observability,
+quotas, audit, and policy — composable around the official [MCP Python SDK](https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/python-sdk).
+
+[![CI](https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/actions/workflows/test.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/nagenshukla/mcp-harness/actions/workflows/test.yml)
+[![PyPI](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/mcp-harness.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-harness/)
+[![Python](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/mcp-harness.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/mcp-harness/)
+[![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache--2.0-blue.svg)](LICENSE)
+
+---
+
+## Why this exists
+
+Most public MCP servers are toy examples. The gap between *"works on my laptop"* and *"I can ship
+this to 500 engineers under SOC 2, GDPR, and a Finance team that wants per-business-unit cost
+allocation"* is enormous — and almost none of that gap is in the protocol. It's in the boring
+middleware around it.
+
+`mcp-harness` **is** that middleware. It doesn't fork the protocol, doesn't reinvent the SDK, and
+doesn't try to be an agent framework. It's a set of composable decorators and middleware that wrap
+the official SDK so the resulting server can be safely run inside a company.
+
+The headline use case: **your CFO asks who's spending the AI budget, and you can answer by end of
+week one.**
+
+## Install
+
+```bash
+pip install mcp-harness            # core pipeline (no MCP SDK required)
+pip install 'mcp-harness[server]'  # + the official MCP SDK, to actually serve tools
+pip install 'mcp-harness[all]'     # + OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, tiktoken, JWT
+```
+
+The core middleware pipeline has **no hard dependency** on `mcp`, so you can unit-test all your
+governance behaviour without a transport. Install the `server` extra to run a live server.
+
+## Hello, governed world
+
+The same MCP server you'd write anyway, with the governance layer declared once at the top:
+
+```python
+from mcp_harness import Harness
+from mcp_harness.auth import APIKeyAuth
+from mcp_harness.governance import CostTracking, Quotas, AuditLog
+from mcp_harness.observability import OTELTracing, StructuredLogging
+from mcp_harness.policy import AllowList
+
+harness = Harness(
+    name="customer-data-mcp",
+    auth=APIKeyAuth(keys={"sk-finance": {"id": "svc-reports", "team": "finance"}}),
+    middleware=[
+        OTELTracing(service_name="customer-data-mcp"),
+        StructuredLogging(),
+        AllowList.from_yaml("policies/tool-access.yaml"),
+        Quotas(per_principal_per_minute=60),
+        CostTracking(
+            cost_center_resolver=lambda p: p.team,
+            sink="jsonl://costs.jsonl",
+        ),
+        AuditLog(sink="jsonl://audit.jsonl"),
+    ],
+)
+
+@harness.tool()
+async def search_customer(customer_id: str) -> dict:
+    """Find a customer record by ID."""
+    return {"id": customer_id, "name": "ACME Corp"}
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    harness.run()  # stdio by default; transport="streamable-http" for HTTP
+```
+
+Then attribute spend:
+
+```console
+$ mcp-harness daily-rollup costs.jsonl
+cost_center     calls      in_tok     out_tok      cost_usd
+----------------------------------------------------------
+finance            42        5\,210       9\,830        0.1284
+platform           18        1\,940       3\,110        0.0451
+----------------------------------------------------------
+TOTAL              60        7\,150      12\,940        0.1735
+```
+
+## How it works
+
+A tiny **onion middleware pipeline**, decoupled from the SDK. `@harness.tool()` registers your
+function; calls flow through each layer and into your tool. The same path runs whether the call
+arrives from a live MCP client or from the in-process test client.
+
+```
+client ─▶ FastMCP ─▶ wrapper ─┐
+                              ├─▶ auth ─▶ policy ─▶ quotas ─▶ tracing ─▶ cost ─▶ audit ─▶ your tool
+test/direct ─▶ dispatch ──────┘
+```
+
+Each layer is independently useful, independently testable, and opt-in. Adopt just `CostTracking`,
+or stack the whole thing.
+
+## Modules
+
+| Module | What you get |
+| --- | --- |
+| `mcp_harness.auth` | `APIKeyAuth` (with rotation), `AnonymousAuth`, `ChainedAuth`, experimental `AzureADAuth` (Entra ID JWT) |
+| `mcp_harness.governance` | **`CostTracking`** (tokens → \$ → cost center), `Quotas` (rate / team cap / concurrency), `AuditLog` (async, shape-only) |
+| `mcp_harness.observability` | `StructuredLogging` (JSON + correlation ids), `OTELTracing`, `Metrics` (Prometheus or in-memory) |
+| `mcp_harness.policy` | `AllowList` / `DenyList` (YAML, argument constraints), `PIIRedactor` |
+| `mcp_harness.resilience` | `CircuitBreaker`, `Retry` decorators for individual tools |
+| `mcp_harness.testing` | `HarnessTestClient`, `MockPrincipal`, pytest fixtures |
+| `mcp-harness` CLI | `daily-rollup` per-cost-center spend reports |
+
+Optional integrations degrade gracefully: `OTELTracing` is a no-op (warned once) without the
+`otel` extra; `Metrics` falls back to an in-memory backend without `prometheus-client`; cost token
+counting uses a heuristic without `tiktoken`.
+
+## Testing your server
+
+Governance is covered by ordinary unit tests — no transport, no mocks of the SDK:
+
+```python
+from mcp_harness.testing import HarnessTestClient, MockPrincipal
+from myserver import harness
+
+async def test_finance_can_search(harness_client):  # fixture auto-registered
+    client = harness_client(harness, principal=MockPrincipal("svc-a", team="finance"))
+    assert await client.call("search_customer", {"customer_id": "c-1"})
+```
+
+## Examples
+
+- [`examples/quickstart_server.py`](examples/quickstart_server.py) — smallest governed server.
+- [`examples/local_governed_server.py`](examples/local_governed_server.py) — full stack, zero
+  cloud deps. Run `python examples/local_governed_server.py --demo` to watch the governance layers
+  reject calls in real time.
+- [`examples/azure_governed_server.py`](examples/azure_governed_server.py) — the design's
+  Azure-centric reference server.
+
+## Scope
+
+**In scope:** auth, observability, cost attribution, quotas, audit, policy, resilience, testing.
+
+**Out of scope (by design):** agent orchestration, a UI/dashboard, a tool registry, and anything
+that breaks MCP wire-compatibility. A library that does a few things well beats one that does
+fifteen poorly.
+
+## Compatibility & status
+
+- Python **3.10+**. Wraps the official `mcp` SDK (`FastMCP`) without modifying the wire protocol.
+- **Beta (v0.1).** The `Harness`, auth, `CostTracking`, `Quotas`, observability, `AllowList`, and
+  `AuditLog` APIs are real and tested. Cloud sinks (Azure Monitor, Event Hubs, Kinesis, Kafka),
+  Redis-backed quotas, `SchemaGuard`, and `AzureADAuth` hardening are extension points — base
+  interfaces ship, full wiring is on the roadmap. See [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md).
+
+## License
+
+[Apache-2.0](LICENSE).