mcp-815

815 North-Central Illinois (outside Chicago) — WellSpr.ing Civic MCP Portal

Civic AI portal for Joliet, Rockford area, and North-Central Illinois — Route 66 history, I&M Canal, and Prairie State civic life.

Quick Start

Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to the Joliet / Rockford (south) civic portal:

# Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, or any MCP client:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/cli connect https://mcp.815.today/mcp

Or in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "815-civic": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@modelcontextprotocol/cli", "connect", "https://mcp.815.today/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

About Joliet / Rockford (south)

This repository is the sovereign source configuration for the 815.today civic MCP portal — a Model Context Protocol endpoint exposing community-scoped civic AI tools for 815 North-Central Illinois (outside Chicago).

Property	Value
Area code	815
Primary city	Joliet / Rockford (south)
State	IL
Live portal	815.today
MCP endpoint	mcp.815.today/mcp
Sovereign repo	git.wellspr.ing/WellBuilder/mcp-815
Federation	wellspr.ing/mcp/federation.json

Civic Tools

Tool	Description
`get_local_news`	Latest civic news for Joliet / Rockford (south)
`get_free_items`	Community free-item exchange — hyperlocal mutual aid
`get_businesses`	Local business directory for Joliet / Rockford (south)
`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, 630, 779, 563, 309, 847

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-815	Source of truth
Community mirror	codeberg.org/wellspring/mcp-815	Discovery
GitHub mirror	github.com/WellBuilder/mcp-815	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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