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Provenza MCP Server

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Provenza runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 762 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 31 Oct 2026.

Governed MCP gateway: approved tools only, each call policy-checked and recorded per agent

Installs per day peak 527 · avg 38 · +1338% w/w
a month agotoday
762
Installs / week
pypi · provenza
5
Stars
0 open issues
31 Oct 2026
Last commit
from GitHub
Apache-2.0
License
Python

What the code does

We read the source, 14 h ago · rules 995398eba69f

Evidence

Things with no honest explanation: a promise that contradicts the code, code that runs at install time while hiding what it does, data leaving the machine.

    r = httpx.get("http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/identity",
In the project's build, not in the package

Found in continuous integration, deployment or infrastructure files, or in a neighbouring package of the same monorepo. None of this is installed when you add the server: it describes how the project is built and released. We list it because a leaked key in a build pipeline is still a real problem, but it is not something this server does on your machine.

Installs itself into autostart install.sh:265
   && crontab -u "$SUDO_USER" -l 2>/dev/null | grep -Fq "$DEPLOY && ./scripts/backup.sh"; then

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

We found things in this code

Code changes quietly between releases, and nobody reads the diff of a dependency. We do, on every release — watch Provenza and you get told the day something new turns up.

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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 provenza -e 'PROVENZA_URL=<PROVENZA_URL>' -- uvx provenza
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "provenza": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "provenza"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROVENZA_URL": "<PROVENZA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.provenza]
command = "uvx"
args = ["provenza"]
env = { PROVENZA_URL = "<PROVENZA_URL>" }
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "provenza": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "provenza"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROVENZA_URL": "<PROVENZA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "provenza": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "provenza"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PROVENZA_URL": "<PROVENZA_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Put your own value in place of <PROVENZA_URL> (Your self-hosted Provenza, e.g. https://provenza.example.com). The author’s registry entry marks it as required.

Optional settings from the registry entry, left out of the block above: PROVENZA_TOKEN (One-time enrollment token (Agents -> New agent); needed on the first start only), PROVENZA_AGENT_NAME (Agent name on this machine (default: mcp)).

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Provenza — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Provenza?
Provenza 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 provenza was installed 762 times last week.
How do I connect Provenza?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls provenza straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use Provenza?
The pypi package provenza was installed 762 times in the last week. Week over week that is +1338%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is Provenza open source?
Yes — it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 5 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.