Palveron Governance Gateway

@palveron/mcp-server

Official Palveron MCP server — advisory AI-governance checks for MCP hosts and coding agents

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⚡ Early access. Palveron is launching soon and access is currently invite-gated. This server is fully functional — you just need a pv_live_ key, which comes with an Early Access invite. Join the waitlist → palveron.com/early-access

Give your MCP-capable client — Claude Code, Cursor, any other MCP host — governance tools it can call before executing an action: policy verdicts, PII-masking results, and an audit trace for every check, all from the Palveron AI Governance Gateway.

• Drop-in MCP server — one binary, configure your MCP host, you're done
• Advisory governance verdicts — the gateway decides allow / mask / deny / hold; the agent (or your wrapping code) acts on the verdict
• Audit trail per check — trace IDs flow back to the Palveron dashboard
• Built on @palveron/sdk — retry, circuit breaker, typed errors out of the box

Advisory check vs. enforced governance — which one do you need?

This package is the advisory path. It cannot physically stop a tool call: it answers the question "is this allowed?", and the calling agent (or your code via check()/wrap()) is expected to honor the answer. That is by design — it works with any MCP host, needs no network topology change, and gives you verdicts plus audit traces immediately.

Enforced, non-bypassable governance for MCP tool calls is a different product surface: the Palveron remote MCP proxy. There you register the target MCP server in the Palveron dashboard and point your IDE at POST {gateway}/api/v1/mcp/proxy/{server_id} instead of the target — every tools/call then structurally passes through policy checks, approval holds, and drift detection before it can reach the target server. No cooperation from the agent required.

	This package (@palveron/mcp-server)	Remote MCP proxy
Model	Voluntary pre-flight check	In-path enforcement
Can a call bypass it?	Yes — enforcement depends on the caller honoring the verdict	No — the proxy sits between client and target server
Setup	npx, one env var	Register the target server in the dashboard, point the IDE at the proxy URL
Use it when	You want verdicts + audit traces inside any MCP host, or wrap tool calls programmatically	You need governance that agents cannot skip

See the MCP setup guide for the enforced path.

Installation

npm install -g @palveron/mcp-server
# or use directly via npx
npx @palveron/mcp-server

Quick Start

The pv_live_… key in the examples below requires an Early Access invite — request one here. Once you have a key, everything works out of the box.

Claude Code

Add to your claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "palveron": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@palveron/mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "PALVERON_API_KEY": "pv_live_xxx",
        "PALVERON_BASE_URL": "https://gateway.palveron.com"
      }
    }
  }
}

Other MCP hosts

Any MCP-capable host can launch the server via the palveron-mcp binary:

PALVERON_API_KEY=pv_live_xxx palveron-mcp

Tools exposed via MCP

Tool	Purpose
palveron_check	Check a tool call against governance policies before execution. Returns the decision (PASSED, BLOCKED, MODIFIED/REDACTED/ANONYMIZED with the sanitized input, PENDING_APPROVAL, …), whether the call may proceed, findings, and the audit trace ID.
palveron_status	Governance status and diagnostics — gateway connectivity, circuit-breaker state, configured local lists.
palveron_policy_list	List the project's active policies so the host can explain its decisions.

Configuration

The server reads its configuration from environment variables. The MCP host sets them; you never put secrets in code.

Variable	Required	Description
PALVERON_API_KEY	yes	API key (pv_live_…) — comes with an Early Access invite
PALVERON_BASE_URL	no	Override the gateway endpoint (default: https://gateway.palveron.com)
PALVERON_FAIL_OPEN	no	true = allow tool calls when the gateway is unreachable (default: false, fail-closed)
PALVERON_LOG_LEVEL	no	debug / info / warn / error / silent (default: info)
PALVERON_ALWAYS_BLOCK	no	Comma-separated tool names that are always denied locally, without a gateway call
PALVERON_ALWAYS_ALLOW	no	Comma-separated tool names that always pass locally, without a gateway call

Requirements

• Node.js 18 or newer
• An MCP-capable client (Claude Code 0.4+, Cursor, etc.)

Links

• Early Access / Waitlist — palveron.com/early-access
• Documentation — docs.palveron.com/integrations/mcp
• Dashboard — palveron.com
• Support — [email protected]
• GitHub — palveron/mcp-server
• Changelog — CHANGELOG.md

License

MIT — Copyright © 2026 Palveron.