Cartographer MCP Server

Governance MCP server for agent-maintained knowledge bases (OKF): git-backed writes, search, lint.

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What is the Cartographer MCP Server?

Governance MCP server for agent-maintained knowledge bases (OKF): git-backed writes, search, lint.

What the server does

LLM agents forget everything between sessions, and stateless RAG only bolts retrieval onto that amnesia. The alternative is a knowledge base the agent itself builds and maintains over time — but letting an agent loose on a folder of files ends in broken links, lost history, and silent corruption. Cartographer is the governance layer that makes the pattern safe: the agent works the wiki exclusively through MCP tools, and the server enforces every invariant — validation, linking, immutability gates, one git commit per write.

The wiki is grounded in Karpathy's "LLM Wiki" pattern (operating model: knowledge accretes over time, it is not stateless RAG) on top of the OKF substrate (Open Knowledge Format v0.1 by Google Cloud) — each KB is a folder of .md files with YAML frontmatter, self-contained and version-controlled with git. Zero lock-in: the wiki is readable by any tool, including Obsidian and any text editor.

  • 🔧 Full MCP tool suite — complete list in docs/control-plane.md
  • 📖 Read & navigation — atlas_overview, index_get, concept_read, map_list,
  • 🔍 Search — keyword (pure-Go inverted index) plus optional hybrid semantic search via Ollama
  • ✍️ Validated writes with optimistic concurrency (if_match / content-hash), including concept_new from KB-owned templates discovered through template_list
  • 📎 Concept assets — read, write, list, and delete binary or text dossier files inside expanded concepts
  • 🛡️ Governance — deterministic lint (broken link, stale claim, orphan, map contracts), commit_gate,

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Maintainer setup documentation.

Configuration

VariableDescriptionRequired
CARTOGRAPHER_AUDIT_KEYCredential the server authenticates with.Yes

Example prompts to try

  • “Use Cartographer to Server.”
  • “Use Cartographer to CARTOGRAPHER KB.”
  • “Use Cartographer to CARTOGRAPHER DATA.”

Frequently asked questions

Governance MCP server for agent-maintained knowledge bases (OKF): git-backed writes, search, lint. Confirm the tools offered by your installed version in the connected client. Tool availability and permissions depend on the server and account configuration.