# ClauseKeeper Compliance Scanner [Health: Active]

**Category:** ⚖️ Legal  
**Repository:** https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper  
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**Directory Page:** https://allmcps.com/mcp/clausekeeper-compliance-scanner

## Description
Scan website legal docs for missing or stale compliance clauses. Rule-based, no LLM.

## Claude Desktop Quick Installation
Remote MCP endpoint (confidence: high). Install path detected from listing signals. Add as a URL/SSE server in your client:

```json
"mcpServers": {
  "clausekeeper-compliance-scanner": {
    "url": "https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL_v3-navy.svg)](LICENSE"
  }
}
```

## Documentation & README

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<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/HEAD/static/logo-icon.svg" alt="ClauseKeeper" width="88" />

# ClauseKeeper

### The open-source way to keep your website's legal documents current.

**Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Cookie Policy · AI-Disclosure** — generated in minutes, and kept up to date as the law changes.

[![License: AGPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-AGPL_v3-navy.svg)](LICENSE)
[![Self-host](https://img.shields.io/badge/self--host-Docker-0b7285.svg)](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)
![Python 3.11](https://img.shields.io/badge/python-3.11-3776ab.svg)
![Tests](https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-31%20passing-2f9e44.svg)

[**🔎 Try the free scanner**](https://clausekeeper.app/scan) · [**🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes**](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/docs/SELF_HOSTING.md) · [**🤝 Contribute**](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md)

⭐ **If this saves you a lawyer's invoice, drop a star — it genuinely helps.**

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## What is ClauseKeeper?

Every website needs a Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Cookie banner, and — as of 2026 — an **AI-disclosure** statement. The problem isn't *writing* them once. It's that **the law keeps moving**: the EU AI Act phases in, US states pass new privacy laws, and your "compliant" policy from last year is quietly stale.

ClauseKeeper does two things:

1. **🔎 Free compliance scanner** — paste your policy text or a URL, get a **0–100 score** and a checklist of missing or stale clauses (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, cookies, retention, **AI disclosure**, COPPA, and more). 100% rule-based, **no LLM, $0 to run.**
2. **📄 Document generator** — answer a short form, get a Privacy Policy, ToS, Cookie Policy, and a 2026 AI-Disclosure addendum with conditional clauses for your jurisdictions.

> **It's a starting point, not legal advice.** ClauseKeeper gets you 90% of the way and keeps you current — for the edge cases, talk to a lawyer.

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## 🆚 Open-source alternative to expensive compliance suites

The enterprise compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata, Delve, etc.) are built for funded startups closing SOC 2 / HIPAA enterprise deals — and priced accordingly (thousands per year, sales demos, audit-firm relationships).

**ClauseKeeper is the opposite end of the market:** self-serve, dirt-cheap, and open source. It's for the indie founder, freelancer, and small SaaS who just need their website's legal documents *correct and current* — without a sales call or an enterprise invoice.

| | Self-host (free) | Cloud (clausekeeper.app) |
|---|---|---|
| Free compliance scanner | ✅ | ✅ |
| Document generator | ✅ | ✅ |
| Hosted, versioned policy URLs | ✅ (your server) | ✅ |
| **Always-current** auto-updates when laws change | ⚙️ you maintain the clause rules | ✅ we maintain them for you |
| Billing / Stripe | n/a | ✅ |
| Maintenance | you | us |

If you self-host, **you own everything** — the scanner and generator run with zero external keys. The paid cloud tier exists for people who'd rather we keep the clause library current for them.

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## 🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes

```bash
git clone https://github.com/<your-org>/ClauseKeeper.git
cd ClauseKeeper
cp .env.example .env          # defaults work out of the box; no paid keys needed
docker compose up
# open http://localhost:8000
```

The scanner and generator work immediately — **no Stripe, no API keys, nothing to sign up for.** Full guide: [docs/SELF_HOSTING.md](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/docs/SELF_HOSTING.md).

Prefer running it without Docker? See the [contributing guide](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md) for the `uv` / `venv` dev setup.

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## 🛠 Tech stack

- **FastAPI** + Uvicorn (Python 3.11)
- **SQLite** for persistence (zero-config; swap-friendly)
- **Jinja2** templates, no JS framework — fast and simple
- Rule-based clause engine (`app/clause_rules.py`) — **no LLM dependency** for the core product
- Optional **Stripe** for the hosted billing tier

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## 🤖 Use with AI agents

ClauseKeeper is **agent-native** — built to be worked on (and used) by AI coding agents.

**Work on the repo with an agent:**
- **GitHub Copilot:** assign any [open issue](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/../../issues) to the Copilot coding agent — it reads [`AGENTS.md`](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/AGENTS.md) and `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, makes the change, runs the tests, and opens a PR.
- **Cursor:** open the repo in Cursor and point a Cloud Agent at an issue — the same `AGENTS.md` context applies.
- Agent context, architecture, and exact build/test commands all live in [`AGENTS.md`](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/AGENTS.md).

**Use ClauseKeeper *from* an agent (MCP):**
We ship an [MCP server](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/mcp/) that exposes the compliance scanner as agent tools — so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP host can scan a privacy policy and get a score + missing-clause checklist. No API keys, runs locally.

```jsonc
// add to your MCP host config (e.g. Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clausekeeper": { "command": "clausekeeper-mcp" }
  }
}
```

Tools: `scan_policy_text`, `scan_policy_url`, `list_clause_rules`. See [mcp/README.md](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/mcp/README.md).

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## 🤝 Contributing

PRs welcome — this is a community project. Good first contributions:

- **Add / improve clause rules** for a jurisdiction you know (`app/clause_rules.py`)
- **New document templates** or template improvements (`templates/`)
- **Scanner heuristics** — catch more stale/missing clauses
- **Translations** of generated documents

See [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/CONTRIBUTING.md) and check the [open issues](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/../../issues) for tasks tagged `good first issue`. Claim one by commenting and we'll assign it to you.

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## 📜 License

[AGPL-3.0](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/LICENSE) — free to use, modify, and self-host. If you run a modified version as a network service, you must share your changes. (We chose AGPL so the project stays open and improvements flow back to the community.)

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**Built for the indie web. Keep your documents current — without the lawyer's retainer.**

⭐ Star the repo · 🔎 [Scan your policy free](https://clausekeeper.app/scan) · 🐳 [Self-host it](https://github.com/mityda/ClauseKeeper/blob/HEAD/docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)

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