CHAP Coordinator

Auditable records of human decisions over AI agent work. Approvals, edits, overrides, escalations.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

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Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chap-coordinator": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chap-coordinator"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP)

The open protocol for humans and agents doing accountable work together.

CHAP gives approvals, overrides, handoffs and escalations a shared, auditable shape across MCP and A2A.

Install · 90-second tour · Scenarios · Implementations · Wiki · Discussions · Paper

You have agents doing real work. Drafting code reviews, triaging tickets, suggesting settlements, reviewing contracts. A human approves, edits, or rejects each one. Right now, that decision lives in your application code, your chat threads, your ticket comments, and your head. When something goes wrong six weeks later, reconstructing what happened costs you forty-five minutes and is half guesswork.

CHAP gives you one place to put those decisions and one shape to put them in. The agent's draft is an artefact. The human's edit is a structured override with a diff, a rationale, and tags you control. The whole thing chains together by content hash. You query the chain instead of grepping logs across four UIs.

The chain survives key rotation, log expiry, and people leaving; one audit.read call returns the whole thing. The overrides your reviewers were already making accumulate into supervision data you'd otherwise have to commission. When approvals must be non-repudiable, security-signed/1.0 adds OIDC-bound signatures with a signature_meaning you define, and audit-scitt/1.0 anchors the chain in an external transparency log, verifiable without trusting your servers. And CHAP sits beside MCP and A2A rather than replacing them: MCP for tools, A2A for other agents, CHAP for the shared work with humans.

That's the whole pitch.

The 90-second tour

A solo developer using Cursor to review pull requests. The bot flags a "warning" the developer disagrees with. Here's the whole exchange, end to end. The clip below runs in about 23 seconds across six labelled steps; the matching code is right underneath.

And here's the code, every line of it. One continuous story in two languages; pick whichever stack you actually use.

1. Spin up a workspace. An embedded coordinator with SQLite persistence, two participants, a workspace:

TypeScript Python

server.ts

import { Coordinator } from "@brightbeamai/chap-coordinator";
import { SqliteStore } from
  "@brightbeamai/chap-coordinator/storage/sqlite";

const coord = new Coordinator({
  store: new SqliteStore("./chap.db"),
});

coord.api.workspace.create({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  profiles:  ["core/1.0", "review/1.0"],
});

coord.api.participant.join({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "human:me@local",
  type:      "human",
});

coord.api.participant.join({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  type:      "agent",
});

server.ts

from chap_coordinator import Coordinator
from chap_coordinator.storage.sqlite \
    import SqliteStore

coord = Coordinator(store=SqliteStore("./chap.db"))

def send(method, params):
    return coord.dispatch({
        "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": method,
        "method": method, "params": params,
    })

send("workspace.create", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "profiles":  ["core/1.0", "review/1.0"],
})

send("participant.join", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "human:me@local",
    "type":      "human",
})

send("participant.join", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "type":      "agent",
})

2. The bot drafts, you override. Wire your existing Cursor integration to emit envelopes:

TypeScript Python

server.ts

// The bot's review is the output of a task.
const { task_id } = coord.api.task.create({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  assignee:  "agent:cursor#v1",
  kind:      "code_review",
  input:     { pr_id: "PR-482" },
});

coord.api.task.complete({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  task_id,
  output:    cursorReview,
});

coord.api.review.request({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  task_id,
  artefact:  cursorReview,
  to:        "human:me@local",
});

// You disagree with one comment. Override it.
coord.api.decide.override({
  workspace:        "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:             "human:me@local",
  task_id,
  intent_preserved: true,
  diff: [{ op: "replace",
           path: "/comments/0/severity",
           value: "info" }],
  rationale: "False positive. Framework " +
             "convention, not a bug.",
  tags: ["false-positive",
         "framework-pattern-misread"],
});

python

# The bot's review is the output of a task.
r = send("task.create", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "assignee":  "agent:cursor#v1",
    "kind":      "code_review",
    "input":     {"pr_id": "PR-482"},
})
task_id = r["result"]["task_id"]

send("task.complete", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "task_id":   task_id,
    "output":    cursor_review,
})

send("review.request", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "task_id":   task_id,
    "artefact":  cursor_review,
    "to":        "human:me@local",
})

# You disagree with one comment. Override it.
send("decide.override", {
    "workspace":        "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":             "human:me@local",
    "task_id":          task_id,
    "intent_preserved": True,
    "diff": [{"op":    "replace",
              "path":  "/comments/0/severity",
              "value": "info"}],
    "rationale": "False positive. Framework "
                 "convention, not a bug.",
    "tags": ["false-positive",
             "framework-pattern-misread"],
})

About the surfaces. TypeScript ships a typed facade (coord.api.*) so every method gets full autocomplete and compile-time checks. Python keeps the JSON-RPC envelope shape on the surface (coord.dispatch({...})) and consumers wrap it however suits the call site; a send() helper is the idiom the Python tests use. Both paths emit identical wire bytes; the audit chain is byte-for-byte the same regardless of which client made the call.

3. Two months in, analyse what you've been doing. The reference repo ships an analytics script in both languages that reads the audit chain (over HTTP or straight from your SQLite file) and groups overrides:

bash

# TypeScript reference, against the SqliteStore from step 1:
$ npm --prefix reference/core-plus-review run analyze -- --db ./chap.db wsp_pr_reviews

# Python reference, same idea:
$ python3 reference/python/analyze_overrides.py --db ./chap.db wsp_pr_reviews

Override Learning Report
========================
Total overrides: 47

Read the full README on GitHub →

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Add the following block to your claude_desktop_config.json under mcpServers: "mcpServers": { "chap-coordinator": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "CHAP Coordinator"] } }

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CHAP Coordinator

Auditable records of human decisions over AI agent work. Approvals, edits, overrides, escalations.

Quick Install

Automated & IDE Setup

Copy the AI prompt to install this server into Claude Code, Cursor, or another agent — or use 1-click editor setup below.

Add to Cursor Add to VS Code

Manual Client & Custom JSON ConfigExpand JSON ▾

Client Config & Setup

Choose your client or environment

Target File:~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chap-coordinator": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "chap-coordinator"
      ]
    }
  }
}

💡 Paste the JSON block into your client's configuration file under mcpServers, then restart the application.

Documentation Overview

Collaborative Human-Agent Protocol (CHAP)

The open protocol for humans and agents doing accountable work together.

CHAP gives approvals, overrides, handoffs and escalations a shared, auditable shape across MCP and A2A.

Install · 90-second tour · Scenarios · Implementations · Wiki · Discussions · Paper

That's the whole pitch.

The 90-second tour

And here's the code, every line of it. One continuous story in two languages; pick whichever stack you actually use.

1. Spin up a workspace. An embedded coordinator with SQLite persistence, two participants, a workspace:

TypeScript Python

server.ts

import { Coordinator } from "@brightbeamai/chap-coordinator";
import { SqliteStore } from
  "@brightbeamai/chap-coordinator/storage/sqlite";

const coord = new Coordinator({
  store: new SqliteStore("./chap.db"),
});

coord.api.workspace.create({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  profiles:  ["core/1.0", "review/1.0"],
});

coord.api.participant.join({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "human:me@local",
  type:      "human",
});

coord.api.participant.join({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  type:      "agent",
});

server.ts

from chap_coordinator import Coordinator
from chap_coordinator.storage.sqlite \
    import SqliteStore

coord = Coordinator(store=SqliteStore("./chap.db"))

def send(method, params):
    return coord.dispatch({
        "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": method,
        "method": method, "params": params,
    })

send("workspace.create", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "profiles":  ["core/1.0", "review/1.0"],
})

send("participant.join", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "human:me@local",
    "type":      "human",
})

send("participant.join", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "type":      "agent",
})

2. The bot drafts, you override. Wire your existing Cursor integration to emit envelopes:

TypeScript Python

server.ts

// The bot's review is the output of a task.
const { task_id } = coord.api.task.create({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  assignee:  "agent:cursor#v1",
  kind:      "code_review",
  input:     { pr_id: "PR-482" },
});

coord.api.task.complete({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  task_id,
  output:    cursorReview,
});

coord.api.review.request({
  workspace: "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:      "agent:cursor#v1",
  task_id,
  artefact:  cursorReview,
  to:        "human:me@local",
});

// You disagree with one comment. Override it.
coord.api.decide.override({
  workspace:        "wsp_pr_reviews",
  from:             "human:me@local",
  task_id,
  intent_preserved: true,
  diff: [{ op: "replace",
           path: "/comments/0/severity",
           value: "info" }],
  rationale: "False positive. Framework " +
             "convention, not a bug.",
  tags: ["false-positive",
         "framework-pattern-misread"],
});

python

# The bot's review is the output of a task.
r = send("task.create", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "assignee":  "agent:cursor#v1",
    "kind":      "code_review",
    "input":     {"pr_id": "PR-482"},
})
task_id = r["result"]["task_id"]

send("task.complete", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "task_id":   task_id,
    "output":    cursor_review,
})

send("review.request", {
    "workspace": "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":      "agent:cursor#v1",
    "task_id":   task_id,
    "artefact":  cursor_review,
    "to":        "human:me@local",
})

# You disagree with one comment. Override it.
send("decide.override", {
    "workspace":        "wsp_pr_reviews",
    "from":             "human:me@local",
    "task_id":          task_id,
    "intent_preserved": True,
    "diff": [{"op":    "replace",
              "path":  "/comments/0/severity",
              "value": "info"}],
    "rationale": "False positive. Framework "
                 "convention, not a bug.",
    "tags": ["false-positive",
             "framework-pattern-misread"],
})

About the surfaces. TypeScript ships a typed facade (coord.api.*) so every method gets full autocomplete and compile-time checks. Python keeps the JSON-RPC envelope shape on the surface (coord.dispatch({...})) and consumers wrap it however suits the call site; a send() helper is the idiom the Python tests use. Both paths emit identical wire bytes; the audit chain is byte-for-byte the same regardless of which client made the call.

bash

# TypeScript reference, against the SqliteStore from step 1:
$ npm --prefix reference/core-plus-review run analyze -- --db ./chap.db wsp_pr_reviews

# Python reference, same idea:
$ python3 reference/python/analyze_overrides.py --db ./chap.db wsp_pr_reviews

Override Learning Report
========================
Total overrides: 47

Read the full README on GitHub →

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Technical Specs & Signals

CategoryDeveloper Tools

27Quality signal: Emerging · 27/100How this signal is calculated ▾

Server availabilityNot measured

Not scored for repo-hosted servers — we can't reach the running server, only its GitHub page. Hosted MCP endpoints are health-checked live.

Verified ownership8/20

Documentation & tools11/30

Adoption & activity1/15

Community engagement0/10

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