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Aegis — AI Agent Governance MCP Server

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Aegis — AI Agent Governance runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 488 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 29 Aug 2026.

Policy-based governance for AI agent tool calls. YAML policy, approval gates, audit logging.

Installs per day peak 460 · avg 79 · +31% w/w
a month agotoday
488
Installs / week
pypi · agent-aegis
15
Stars
4 open issues
29 Aug 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 21 h ago · rules 3dff92dd89df

Capabilities

What this server is able to do. For an MCP server this is often the job itself — a terminal server runs commands because that is what it is for. Listed so you know what you are plugging in, not as an accusation.

            r"(?:/etc/(?:passwd|shadow|hosts)|/proc/|\.ssh/|\.aws/|\.env\b)",
    TELEGRAM_API = "https://api.telegram.org"

Is this your server and something here is wrong? Tell us — corrections are free and do not require a plan.

This code can reach further than it looks

We found places where it runs commands, builds paths or queries from values it is given. None of that is a flaw by itself — it becomes one when the code changes, and code changes quietly between releases. We re-read it on every one.

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Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add aegis -- uvx agent-aegis
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aegis": {
      "args": [
        "agent-aegis"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.aegis]
command = "uvx"
args = ["agent-aegis"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aegis": {
      "args": [
        "agent-aegis"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aegis": {
      "args": [
        "agent-aegis"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: AEGIS_POLICY_PATH (Path to YAML policy file). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Aegis — AI Agent Governance — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Aegis — AI Agent Governance?
Aegis — AI Agent Governance runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package agent-aegis was installed 488 times last week.
How do I connect Aegis — AI Agent Governance?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls agent-aegis straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Aegis — AI Agent Governance?
The pypi package agent-aegis was installed 488 times in the last week. Week over week that is +31%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Aegis — AI Agent Governance open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in Python, 15 stars on GitHub and 4 open issues. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.