mcp-401

401 Rhode Island — WellSpr.ing Civic MCP Portal

Civic AI portal for Providence and Rhode Island — the Ocean State, RISD culture, and New England civic life.

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Quick Start

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

# Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, or any MCP client:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/cli connect https://mcp.401.today/mcp

Or in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "401-civic": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@modelcontextprotocol/cli", "connect", "https://mcp.401.today/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

About Providence

This repository is the sovereign source configuration for the 401.today civic MCP portal — a Model Context Protocol endpoint exposing community-scoped civic AI tools for 401 Rhode Island.

Property	Value
Area code	401
Primary city	Providence
State	RI
Live portal	401.today
MCP portal	mcp.401.today
MCP protocol endpoint	https://mcp.401.today/mcp (POST for agents)
Sovereign repo	git.wellspr.ing/WellBuilder/mcp-401
Federation	wellspr.ing/mcp/federation.json

Civic Tools

Tool	Description
get_local_news	Latest civic news for Providence
get_free_items	Community free-item exchange — hyperlocal mutual aid
get_businesses	Local business directory for Providence
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): 617, 860, 508

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.

• Eight Principles
• VCAP Attestation
• Sovereignty Statement

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-401	Source of truth
Community mirror	codeberg.org/wellspring/mcp-401	Discovery
GitHub mirror	github.com/WellBuilder/mcp-401	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.

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