mmc-mcp — Model My Context MCP Server

mmc-mcp is the open-source runtime that lets AI agents execute structured business processes without going off-script. It exposes process steps to AI agents (Claude, Gemini, GPT, …) as Model Context Protocol tools, gates each step on a sequenced event bus so the agent can't skip or reorder work, and routes external calls through typed connectors.

Think of it as the execution half of the Model My Context platform. The other half — authoring those processes — happens in MMC Workbench.

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Table of Contents

• Install in Claude Desktop
• How it works
• MMC Workbench: the authoring half
• Quick start (build from source)
• Configuration
• Architecture
• Testing
• Project structure
• Contributing
• License

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Install in Claude Desktop

The easiest way to run mmc-mcp is as a Claude Desktop extension. No terminal, no Bun, no Node.js install — Claude Desktop's bundled runtime executes the server.

1. Download mmc-mcp.mcpb from the latest release.
2. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Extensions and drag the .mcpb file into the panel.
3. When prompted, fill in:
   • OpenRouter API key — get one here
   • OpenRouter model — leave the default (google/gemini-2.5-flash) unless you have a reason
   • GitHub Personal Access Token — needs read access to the GitHub repo holding your SKILL.md files (create a fine-grained PAT)
4. Toggle the extension on. That's it.

To verify, ask Claude "What MCP tools do you have from mmc-mcp?" — it should list log-event-to-bus, get-next-event, handle-latest-event, plus any registered connectors and interface slices.

Want to see the full list of prompted fields, defaults, and what each one does? They're declared in manifest.json under user_config.

If you want to build the bundle yourself or develop on the server, see Quick start (build from source) below.

How it works

A business process is modelled as an ordered list of slices (steps). Each slice is one SKILL.md file with YAML frontmatter and a Markdown body. Slices come in two flavours:

• Interface slices — executed by an AI agent. The agent polls get-next-event, receives exactly the slice it should run next, collects user input, and calls complete-slice to advance the process.
• Automated slices — executed server-side by createAutomatedSliceHandler. They fire when their declared trigger event arrives on the bus, run any query/command jobs, evaluate scenarios, and publish outcome events.

Process state lives entirely in the event bus. Every step's outputs are published as events; the next step only fires when its given events are present. This is what makes the agent unable to skip work — there is literally no "next step" until the event sequence allows it.

External services (Slack, Xero, GitHub, Jira, …) are reached through typed connectors — either built-in (json-read, json-write) or proxied via ExternalMcpManager to child MCP servers.

MMC Workbench: the authoring half

mmc-mcp is the executor. The authoring story lives in MMC Workbench, a separate human-in-the-loop governance tool that:

1. Imports messy SOPs (rough text, transcripts, existing process docs) and turns them into structured outcome models.
2. Models the events of a process visually so non-developers can reason about flow, conditions, and dependencies.
3. Generates SKILL.md files from the modelled outcome model. These are the files this server consumes.
4. Publishes to GitHub as the single source of truth — mmc-mcp syncs from there at startup.
5. Pushes test sessions directly to a running mmc-mcp instance via the register-skills MCP tool, letting authors validate a process end-to-end before publishing.

Without the workbench the server has nothing to dispatch — the two halves are designed together. If you're standing up mmc-mcp alone for development you can skip the workbench by hand-writing SKILL.md files, but for any real workflow the workbench is the upstream.

The licensing split mirrors this:

Component	License	Where
mmc-mcp (this repo)	GPL-3.0-or-later AND Apache-2.0	LICENSE + LICENSE-APACHE
SKILL.md format	Open standard	This repo's parsers + workbench's generator both consume the same shape
MMC Workbench	Proprietary / SaaS	https://modelmycontext.com

Quick start (build from source)

This path is for developers who want to build the .mcpb bundle, run the server outside Claude Desktop, or hack on mmc-mcp itself.

Prerequisites

• Bun 1.x — production runtime and dev runtime.
• pnpm 10+ — package manager (used for pnpm test, pnpm build).
• Persistent storage access for two directories:
  • data/ — the event log (events.db), workflow data (data.db), and any JSON collections referenced by slices.
  • skills/ — the SKILL.md files. Synced from GitHub at startup if configured.

Node.js is not required for runtime. Vitest tests run under Bun via bun x vitest run (see Testing for the SQLite shim that makes this work).

Install and run

git clone https://github.com/modelmycontext/mmc-mcp.git
cd mmc-mcp
pnpm install
cp .env.example .env
# edit .env: set OPENROUTER_API_KEY and GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN
# edit config/config.json: replace `your-github-org` / `your-skills-repo` with the
#   GitHub repo that holds your `SKILL.md` files (or set `mmcGithubServer: []`
#   if you'll author them locally and want to skip GitHub sync entirely)
pnpm start

Pointing at your skills source

config/config.json controls where mmc-mcp looks for SKILL.md files at startup:

"mmcGithubServer": [
  {
    "owner": "your-github-org",
    "repo": "your-skills-repo",
    "path": "models",
    "branch": "main"
  }
]

• owner / repo — your GitHub org and repository. The PAT in .env (GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN) needs read access to it.
• path — directory inside the repo containing the outcome models. Hardcoded to models in the workbench's publish flow; leave as-is.
• branch — which branch to pull from.

If you don't have a skills repo yet, set mmcGithubServer: [] and drop hand-written SKILL.md files into skills/ directly. The server runs fine with no GitHub sync — it just expects whatever it dispatches to be present locally.

Build the .mcpb bundle

To produce an installable mmc-mcp.mcpb from your local source:

pnpm build:mcpb     # esbuild → dist-mcpb/server/index.js (fully self-contained)
pnpm pack:mcpb      # @anthropic-ai/mcpb pack → dist-mcpb/mmc-mcp.mcpb

The resulting dist-mcpb/mmc-mcp.mcpb is ~256 KB, contains the bundled server + manifest.json + your edited config/config.json, and can be dragged into Claude Desktop's Extensions panel as described in Install in Claude Desktop.

Edit config/config.json before running pnpm pack:mcpb if you want a specific mmcGithubServer baked into the distributed bundle.

Server transports

The server boots with two MCP transports active:

• HTTP (StreamableHTTP) on http://localhost:3001/mcp — for Claude Desktop, MCP Inspector, the workbench test panel, and any HTTP-MCP client.
• stdio — for direct CLI integration.

To force a fresh GitHub sync of SKILL.md files at startup: pnpm start:force-sync.

To skip GitHub sync entirely (e.g. if you've put SKILL.md files in skills/ by hand): pass --no-sync.

Configuration

Two files do all the configuration.

.env

OPENROUTER_API_KEY=sk-or-v1-...           # used by the automated slice runner for rule + instruction evaluation
OPENROUTER_MODEL=google/gemini-2.5-flash  # the model the runner calls
GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN=...          # used by the GitHub skill sync + (optionally) the GitHub external MCP
# Optional, for Slack-using processes:
SLACK_BOT_TOKEN=xoxb-...
SLACK_TEAM_ID=T...

config/config.json

{
  "skillsDir": "./skills",
  "mmcGithubServer": [
    {
      "owner": "your-org",
      "repo": "your-skills-repo",
      "path": "models",
      "branch": "main"
    }
  ],
  "externalServers": [
    {
      "name": "sqlite",
      "command": "bun",
      "args": ["x", "-y", "mcp-server-sqlite", "--db", "data/events.db"]
    },
    {
      "name": "github",
      "command": "bun",
      "args": ["x", "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-github"],
      "env": { "GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN": "{{GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN}}" }
    }
  ]
}

Key	Purpose
skillsDir	Where local SKILL.md files live (default ./skills).
mmcGithubServer	Repos to sync skills from at startup. Requires GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN in .env.
externalServers	Child MCP servers to spawn and merge into the tool list. Use {{ENV_VAR}} to inject secrets.

Architecture

The high-level diagram is at the top of this README. For the runtime details — event bus, slice dispatch, the unified path between production and workbench test sessions, the connector layer — see docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

A short orientation:

• src/server/index.ts — bootstraps both transports, owns the EventBus subscriber that dispatches automated slices, hosts the inline tool dispatch table.
• src/services/automatedSliceRunner.ts — createAutomatedSliceHandler (production AND workbench test sessions both flow through this; see the path-unification doc block at the top of the file).
• src/services/sliceEvaluator.ts — executeSliceQueries + evaluateSlice, the deterministic scenario engine used by complete-slice.
• src/skill-engine/ — SKILL.md and outcome-model JSON loading, with extract* helpers shared between disk and inline sources.
• src/connectors/ — Connector interface, ConnectorExecutor, and connectorOutputKeys.ts (extracts a fact value from a connector's result).
• src/events/ — pub/sub bus with sequenced events, plus SQLite/JSON/in-memory stores. testAwareEventStore.ts routes events for sessions marked testMode: true to the in-memory store so workbench test runs don't pollute production state.

Testing

pnpm test          # runs the full vitest suite under Bun
pnpm test:watch    # vitest in watch mode

The test runner is Vitest under Bun (bun x vitest run). Production uses bun:sqlite; Vitest workers run as Node, so we alias bun:sqlite to a small node:sqlite-backed shim — see tests/_shims/bun-sqlite.ts and vitest.config.ts.

Performance regression suite (run after every build):

pnpm build && bun x vitest run tests/performance.test.ts

This exercises EventBus throughput, SqliteEventStore I/O, and BusinessRuleEvaluator with wall-clock thresholds.

Project structure

src/                    GPL-3.0 — server runtime
├── server/             MCP server bootstrap, request dispatcher, ExternalMcpManager
├── services/           automatedSliceRunner, sliceEvaluator, todoProcessor, llm
├── skill-engine/       SKILL.md parsing, outcome-model loading, GitHub sync
├── connectors/         ConnectorExecutor + connectorOutputKeys (server-side glue)
├── events/             EventBus (pub/sub + sequence numbers), event stores
├── data-sources/       JsonDataSource (data/*.json), SqliteDataSource
└── utils/              logger, businessRuleEvaluator, factValueResolver, strings, logic
sdk/                    Apache-2.0 — public connector API (no @src/ imports allowed)
├── connectorTypes.ts   Connector / ConnectorContext / DataSources / McpTool
├── parsing.ts          parseJobInputs, parseKeyValueBlock, extractField
└── index.ts            Barrel export
connectors/             Apache-2.0 — built-in connectors (json-read, json-write, file-store, …)
tests/                  GPL-3.0 — vitest suite
docs/                   Apache-2.0 — ARCHITECTURE.md
config/                 config.json (per-deployment)
data/                   Local event log + JSON collections (gitignored)
skills/                 SKILL.md files (synced from GitHub or local)
public/                 README assets

Contributing

Contributions welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for dev setup, commit conventions, the test-runner caveat, and how the workbench fits into the SKILL.md authoring loop.

If you're filing a bug, please include:

• The output of pnpm start (server boot log)
• The MCP tool call that failed (request + response)
• Whether the session was a test session (testMode: true) or production

Code of Conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.

License

This repository is dual-licensed by folder, not as a whole — see LICENSING.md for the full breakdown.

The short version:

• src/ and tests/ — GPL-3.0-or-later (server runtime; copyleft).
• sdk/, connectors/, docs/ — Apache-2.0 (the public connector SDK and built-in connector implementations; permissive).

The split lets third-party authors ship proprietary connectors that import from @sdk/... without inheriting GPL obligations from the server runtime. Forks of the server itself stay copyleft.

The SKILL.md format is an open standard — anyone can author or consume it.