MCP Compliance

A project for compliance that provides CLI tools and an MCP server for agents to interact with compliance data.

Overview

The FedRAMP Compliance MCP Server is designed to support users throughout their compliance journey, which consists of three main phases:

Understanding - Learning about security controls, their requirements, and how they apply to your system
Implementing - Designing and implementing controls in your system to meet compliance requirements
Evidencing - Collecting and documenting evidence to demonstrate compliance with controls

This project provides tools for working with FedRAMP compliance data, including:

CLI tools for processing and querying FedRAMP baseline data
An MCP server that exposes compliance data to LLM agents

Roadmap

This project is missing the automation of evidence collection. There needs to be a way to securely store what may be sensitive data in a shared location that provides the proper ACLs and data protection. This is intended to be added in a future hackathon or additional roadmap time.

Easy Button Quick Start

For the quickest setup:

# Create the directory for the MCP compliance binary
mkdir -p ~/.mcp-compliance/bin

# Add to your PATH (add this to your .bashrc or .zshrc for persistence)
export PATH=$PATH:~/.mcp-compliance/bin

# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/grafana/hackathon-12-mcp-compliance.git
cd hackathon-12-mcp-compliance

# Build and deploy locally
make deploy-local

Now you can configure your agent (Cursor or Claude Desktop) to use the MCP compliance server. See the Getting Started Guide for configuration details.

Documentation

Getting Started Guide - Instructions for setting up and using the project
Concept of Operations - Detailed explanation of system architecture and data flow

MCP Server

The MCP server provides the following tools for LLM agents:

get_control: Get detailed information about a specific control
get_control_family: Get all controls in a specific family
list_control_families: List all control families in a program
search_controls: Search for controls by keyword
get_control_evidence_guidance: Get detailed guidance for evidence about a specific control

Data Sources

The FedRAMP baseline files are sourced from the official GSA FedRAMP Automation GitHub repository: