mcp-831

831 Central California Coast — WellSpr.ing Civic MCP Portal

Civic AI portal for Monterey and Santa Cruz — Steinbeck country, UCSC, and the Central Coast civic community.

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Quick Start

Connect any MCP-compatible AI assistant to the Monterey / Santa Cruz civic portal:

# Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, or any MCP client:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/cli connect https://mcp.831.today/mcp

Or in claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "831-civic": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["@modelcontextprotocol/cli", "connect", "https://mcp.831.today/mcp"]
    }
  }
}

About Monterey / Santa Cruz

This repository is the sovereign source configuration for the 831.today civic MCP portal — a Model Context Protocol endpoint exposing community-scoped civic AI tools for 831 Central California Coast.

Property	Value
Area code	831
Primary city	Monterey / Santa Cruz
State	CA
Live portal	831.today
MCP portal	mcp.831.today
MCP protocol endpoint	https://mcp.831.today/mcp (POST for agents)
Sovereign repo	git.wellspr.ing/WellBuilder/mcp-831
Federation	wellspr.ing/mcp/federation.json

Civic Tools

Tool	Description
get_local_news	Latest civic news for Monterey / Santa Cruz
get_free_items	Community free-item exchange — hyperlocal mutual aid
get_businesses	Local business directory for Monterey / Santa Cruz
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): 415, 408, 650, 805

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-831	Source of truth
Community mirror	codeberg.org/wellspring/mcp-831	Discovery
GitHub mirror	github.com/WellBuilder/mcp-831	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.