decisionscope

decisionscope

decisionscope gives a tool read-only access to a hosted decision record: a system of record for what was actually decided. Before acting, a tool can ask the record a natural-language question — "Are we still shipping the new onboarding flow?" — and get back the current authoritative answer, or an explicit hold when the record has no confident answer. A polling caller can also drain decisions whose state changed since a cursor. The record only answers; it never takes actions in your systems.

decisionscope is a forwarding client. It runs locally as a CLI and a stdio MCP server, and forwards each call to the hosted endpoint as a JSON-RPC tools/call request. The endpoint is named by RITHMO_MCP_URL and defaults to the hosted service at https://app.rithmo.ai/api/mcp; a self-hosted deployment exposes the same tools and contract at its own address.

Setup

Every request carries a per-organization service token as a Bearer token. The token resolves to exactly one organization, must carry the mcp:read scope, and every result is scoped to that organization. There is no anonymous access.

export RITHMO_MCP_TOKEN="<your service token>"
# Optional; only needed for a self-hosted endpoint:
export RITHMO_MCP_URL="https://app.rithmo.ai/api/mcp"

Keep the token in a secret store, never in code. With no token set, every call fails before any request is sent, with an error naming RITHMO_MCP_TOKEN.

Install

npx @reneturcios/decisionscope whoami

Or run the container image:

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/decisionscope

The container defaults to the MCP server (see below). Pass CLI arguments to use it as a CLI instead, and pass the two environment variables above with -e so the container can reach your record.

CLI

decisionscope query_decision "Are we still shipping the new onboarding flow?"
decisionscope query_decision "What did we decide about GitHub integration?" --type decision
decisionscope query_decision "Who owns the pricing change?" --owner "Priya" --surface jira
decisionscope list_decision_changes
decisionscope list_decision_changes --since "0_" --limit 200
decisionscope whoami

decisionscope --version

Results print as JSON. Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on an operation error (including a missing token), 2 for usage errors. Arguments are validated before the token is checked, so a malformed call is always a usage error.

MCP server

One bin serves both faces. The mcp subcommand starts a stdio MCP server:

npx -y @reneturcios/decisionscope mcp

MCP client configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "decisionscope": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/decisionscope", "mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RITHMO_MCP_TOKEN": "<your service token>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Object results are returned as a JSON text block and as structuredContent, so clients can read res.structuredContent directly.

Tools

Tool	Input	What it returns
query_decision	question (required); optional type (action_item | follow_up | decision), owner, area, surface	A result discriminated on result: found, found_record, or no_record — see below.
list_decision_changes	optional since (opaque cursor), optional limit (integer 1–200, default 50)	{ changes, cursor, has_more } — the changes since the cursor, in (changed_at, decision_id) order.
whoami	(none)	{ org_id, scopes } for the configured token.

Reading a query_decision result

The result field has three variants, and the distinction matters:

• found — a live answer from the commitment ledger. The answer text is at answer, alongside status, lifecycle_state, owner and source (both discriminated states, never bare nulls), decided_at, due_at, rationale, conditions, director, context, a supersedes chain (newest-first, cycle-guarded, capped at 12 hops), an optional spine, and a confidence score. Apart from confidence, a found result for the same decision is byte-identical on every call.
• found_record — a live answer from the subject record. This is an answer, not a refusal. The answer text is at subject.currentAnswer, not answer — and it may be null, meaning the subject is on record but there is no answer text to act on.
• no_record — no confident answer. The bare form is just { "result": "no_record" }; a typed form adds a record explaining why the answer is held (closed, no_record, or not_observed when the asked-about surface is one the record does not observe). A premise_check, when present, always has safe_to_proceed: false. Never proceed on a no_record.

Gate on a usable answer, not on the variant name:

const r = res.structuredContent;
const answer =
  r.result === 'found'        ? r.answer :
  r.result === 'found_record' ? r.subject.currentAnswer :
  null;
if (answer != null && String(answer).trim() !== '') { /* act */ }
else { /* hold — no answer to act on */ }

One special case: a no_record whose record.reason starts with record_unavailable: means the record itself could not be read (a transient failure). That is not "we decided no" — hold and retry.

Draining changes

list_decision_changes is built for a polling trigger:

• First call (no since): returns no changes and the current head cursor. You start from now; history is not replayed. Pass since: "0_" to backfill from the start instead.
• has_more means the page was full (changes.length === limit). It can be true on an exactly-full final page, so the next call may legitimately return zero changes — that is how the drain terminates, not an error.
• When a page returns no rows, the cursor is echoed back unchanged, so re-polling with it is safe and idempotent.
• Each change carries the same record core as a found result, plus changed_at — but never supersedes, spine, or confidence. Its status is wider: reversals appear as dropped or superseded, values a found result never returns.

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # node test runner over test/*.test.ts, no network (fake fetch only)
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source via tsx

License

MIT — see LICENSE.