GIA MCP Server (knowledgepa3/gia-mcp-server) is an MCP server listed on the M8ven Trust Index. It scores 78 out of 100, grade B. It declares 57 tools. The publisher has proved control of what we score (Verified Publisher).

B
Emerging
78/100
6 days ago

GIA MCP Server

Governance Intelligence Architecture (GIA) is a governance-first MCP server that provides approval gates, auditable decision logs, compliance mapping, and operational safety controls for Claude agents. It connects Claude Desktop and Claude Code to a hosted governance control plane for secure, production-grade AI workflows.

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// key findings
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Secret credentials may flow to a network call
21 flows detected: GIA_INTERNAL_API_KEY. We can’t prove the destination matches the brand the credential belongs to.
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You'll be asked for 3 credentials: GIA_GATE_WEBHOOK_SECRET, GIA_PROOF_JWT_SECRET, JWT_SECRET
These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.
Are you the publisher? Confirm or correct these findings.
// environment variables
To run this server yourself, you supply these values. They go in your own MCP client configuration and stay on your machine. The secret label means the value is sensitive, not that the server mishandles it.
configGIA_API_KEYS
configGIA_BASE_URL
configGIA_CLIENT_REGISTRY
configGIA_ENVIRONMENT
configGIA_EXPECTED_CONFIG_FINGERPRINT
configGIA_FINGERPRINT_ENFORCE
🔐 secretGIA_GATE_WEBHOOK_SECRET
configGIA_GATE_WEBHOOK_URL
configGIA_HTTP_HOST
configGIA_HTTP_PORT
🔐 secretGIA_PROOF_JWT_SECRET
configGIA_PROOF_JWT_SECRET_PREV
configGIA_PUBLIC_BASE_URL
configGIA_SAMPLING_CONTEXT
configGIA_SAMPLING_HOUR_BUDGET
configGIA_SAMPLING_MAX_TOKENS
configGIA_SAMPLING_RATE_LIMIT
configGIA_VERBOSE
configHOSTNAME
🔐 secretJWT_SECRET
configNTFY_TOPIC
configNTFY_URL
configPLATFORM_PRIMARY_TENANT_ID
Deployment configuration, supplied by whoever hosts the server. Users are not asked for these.
deployDATABASE_URL
deployREDIS_URL
// quality suggestions

Tool annotations

45/57 tools have annotations

Add readOnlyHint or destructiveHint annotations to every tool so hosts can warn users before invoking.

All four hints declared on every tool

12/57 tools missing one or more hints — agent_rights (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); approve_gate (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint); branch_authority_status (missing: readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint), +9 more. OpenAI's directory rejects tools where any of the four hints are missing or non-boolean.

For every tool, set all four hints (readOnlyHint, destructiveHint, idempotentHint, openWorldHint) to explicit true/false values that match the handler’s actual behaviour.

openWorldHint matches behaviour

1 tool claims openWorldHint=false but make outbound HTTP — generate_value_report → dynamic (line 42)

Either flip openWorldHint to true (acknowledging external reach) or refactor the handler to avoid outbound HTTP. If the only network calls are to a known fixed endpoint that you consider part of the tool itself, document that and keep openWorldHint=false; otherwise true is honest.

Tool test coverage

30/57 tools referenced in tests (53%)

Write tests that reference each tool by name so every tool has at least one test.

Secrets not logged

1 secret value sent to error

Redact or omit secret values from log output.

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commit: b5c1a0310abd4288c4aa4dc8af69794232a86bb0
code hash: 7097433e26e14ef0cd23a49967f154e61a6707d50fd75e36a34b883ea25ab9dc
verified: 9/4/2026, 1:39:41 AM
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