ForgingStack Mandate Check runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 788 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 5 Nov 2026.
Before your agent acts, check its mandate. One call, one receipt.
Nothing serious here today
Today is the operative word: we check ForgingStack Mandate Check every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.
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.
claude mcp add forgingstack-mandate-check -e 'FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY=<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY>' -- uvx forgingstack-mandate-check{
"mcpServers": {
"forgingstack-mandate-check": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"forgingstack-mandate-check"
],
"env": {
"FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY": "<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}[mcp_servers.forgingstack-mandate-check]
command = "uvx"
args = ["forgingstack-mandate-check"]
env = { FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY = "<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY>" }{
"mcpServers": {
"forgingstack-mandate-check": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"forgingstack-mandate-check"
],
"env": {
"FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY": "<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}{
"servers": {
"forgingstack-mandate-check": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"forgingstack-mandate-check"
],
"env": {
"FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY": "<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY>"
}
}
}
}Put your own value in place of
<FORGINGSTACK_API_KEY> (API key for Mandate Check. Sign up via POST /v1/signup (key shown once)).
The author’s registry entry marks it as required.
Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above:
FORGINGSTACK_API_BASE (Mandate Check API base URL. Live default).
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ForgingStack Mandate Check — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.