mcp-219

219 Northwest Indiana — WellSpr.ing Civic MCP Portal

Civic AI portal for Gary and Northwest Indiana — steel heritage, Chicago's shadow, and working-class community.

Quick Start

Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to the Gary civic portal:

# Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, or any MCP client:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/cli connect https://mcp.219.today/mcp

Or in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "219-civic": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@modelcontextprotocol/cli", "connect", "https://mcp.219.today/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

About Gary

This repository is the sovereign source configuration for the 219.today civic MCP portal — a Model Context Protocol endpoint exposing community-scoped civic AI tools for 219 Northwest Indiana.

Property	Value
Area code	219
Primary city	Gary
State	IN
Live portal	219.today
MCP portal	mcp.219.today
MCP protocol endpoint	`https://mcp.219.today/mcp` (POST for agents)
Sovereign repo	git.wellspr.ing/WellBuilder/mcp-219
Federation	wellspr.ing/mcp/federation.json

Civic Tools

Tool	Description
`get_local_news`	Latest civic news for Gary
`get_free_items`	Community free-item exchange — hyperlocal mutual aid
`get_businesses`	Local business directory for Gary
`submit_civic_idea`	Submit a civic idea or community proposal
`get_civic_services`	Local government services and contact information
`ody_chat`	Conversational civic AI (Ody) — covenant-governed

Network Traversal

Adjacent area-code portals (connected via get_adjacent_nodes): 312, 708, 574, 260

Any MCP-capable agent connected to this portal can traverse the WellSpr.ing network hop-by-hop using get_adjacent_nodes — no central directory required.

Governance

This portal operates under the WellSpr.ing Eight Principles — a covenant governance model that all portals, tools, and AI agents in the network attest to.

Freely given, so freely given.

Infrastructure

This repository is the primary source of truth. GitHub and Codeberg are push-mirrors only.

Layer	URL	Role
Sovereign primary	git.wellspr.ing/WellBuilder/mcp-219	Source of truth
Community mirror	codeberg.org/wellspring/mcp-219	Discovery
GitHub mirror	github.com/WellBuilder/mcp-219	Discovery (if restored)

See NotGit.org/formula for the three-mirror architecture.

Contributing

WellSpr.ing covenanted developers are welcome to contribute to this portal's configuration. Open an issue or pull request on the sovereign git.

All contributions are reviewed against the Eight Principles.

Part of the WellSpr.ing NNN.today civic AI network — 191 area-code portals, covenant governed, architecturally sovereign.

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