PolicyForge MCP Server

Generate legal policies — privacy policies, terms of service, cookie policies, refund policies, EULAs, disclaimers, and HIPAA Business Associate Agreements — directly from your AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Claude Desktop) via the Model Context Protocol.

Ask your agent "generate a GDPR + CCPA privacy policy for this app" and it fills the details from your codebase, calls PolicyForge, and drops the policy straight into your project.

Try it free: compliance audits (audit_compliance), drift checks (check_policy_freshness), and the scan rubric (get_disclosure_checklist) are unlimited and never touch your quota — start with "audit our compliance — does the privacy policy cover everything this code actually does?". And the first time your account connects through MCP it gets 3 bonus policy generations on top of the free 2/month — enough to generate privacy, terms, and cookie policies for a new project in one conversation.

Connect

Pick the row that matches your client. If you're unsure, start with A.

All three expose the same tools. A and B need nothing installed.

A. Remote with OAuth (easiest)

No key to copy, no config file to edit. You'll need a PolicyForge account first — https://policyforge.co, free, no card.

1. Add the server. The -s user makes it available in every project rather than only the directory you ran this in:

claude mcp add -s user --transport http policyforge https://policyforge.co/api/mcp

Note there is no --header. Omitting it is what makes the client use OAuth.

2. Restart your client. MCP config is read at startup, so a session that was already running won't see the new server.

3. Authenticate. Run /mcp, select policyforge, and press Enter:

policyforge · △ needs authentication

Your browser opens, you sign in and approve, and the client stores the token itself. You should land back at /mcp showing ✔ connected · 15 tools.

To confirm from the other side, a key named MCP · <your client> appears at https://policyforge.co/api-dashboard — that's the grant, and deleting it revokes access.

Other clients differ in step 3: some prompt on first tool use rather than offering an explicit authenticate action.

B. Remote with an API key

For clients that don't do OAuth yet. Create a key at https://policyforge.co/api-dashboard, then:

claude mcp add --transport http policyforge https://policyforge.co/api/mcp \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer pf_your_key_here"

For clients with URL-based MCP config (Cursor, Windsurf, and others):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "policyforge": {
      "url": "https://policyforge.co/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer pf_your_key_here" }
    }
  }
}

C. Local (npx)

Prefer a local process? The server runs via npx — nothing to install globally. Uses an API key from the environment, which is what the MCP spec recommends for stdio transports.

Claude Code

claude mcp add policyforge \
  --env POLICYFORGE_API_KEY=your_key_here \
  -- npx -y @policyforge/mcp@latest

Cursor / Claude Desktop / Windsurf

Add to your MCP config (.cursor/mcp.json, claude_desktop_config.json, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "policyforge": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@policyforge/mcp@latest"],
      "env": {
        "POLICYFORGE_API_KEY": "your_key_here"
      }
    }
  }
}

On Windows, some clients need the command wrapped: set "command": "cmd" and "args": ["/c", "npx", "-y", "@policyforge/mcp@latest"].

See https://policyforge.co/mcp for one-click installs (Cursor/VS Code) and per-client instructions — with your API key pre-filled when signed in.

Related MCP server: mcp-shiplegal

Troubleshooting

• 401 — if you connected with OAuth, the authorization was revoked or expired: reconnect and approve again. If you used an API key, it was deleted, disabled, or mistyped (keys start with pf_) — rotate or create one at https://policyforge.co/api-dashboard and restart the client.

• 402 — generation quota exhausted. Free tier: 2 generations per calendar month, plus a one-time bonus of 3 extra generations on first MCP connect. Only generate_policy/regenerate_policy consume quota — audits and drift checks are free; ask your agent to run get_usage to see what's left.

• 429 — request rate limit (free tier: 10/minute, 100/day); the response includes retry_after.

• Server not listed in /mcp — either the session started before you added it (restart the client; config is read at startup), or it was added to a different project scope. claude mcp add -s user … makes it available everywhere.

• Tools missing — restart the client after config changes; on Windows use the cmd wrapper above.

• "The redirect URI is not registered for this application" — the client is using a callback URL we haven't seen. Loopback callbacks work on any port (per RFC 8252), so this should be rare; report the exact URI and it can be supported.

More detail: https://policyforge.co/mcp#troubleshooting

Tools

The codebase-aware workflow

Your agent can read your project — so policies come from what the code actually does, not what you remember it doing:

1. get_disclosure_checklist → agent scans dependencies, script tags, cookie writes, and outbound hosts against the rubric, and builds a stack manifest of what it found

2. generate_policy with the detected context + stack_manifest (stored server-side for drift detection)

3. get_integration_guide → agent wires the hosted policy into your footer

4. Later, after the stack changes: check_policy_freshness reports the drift, audit_compliance shows the concrete gaps, and regenerate_policy fixes them — same hosted URL, no broken links, previous version restorable

generate_policy inputs

Required: type, business_type, jurisdiction, company_name, contact_email

• type — privacy_policy · terms_of_service · cookie_policy · refund_policy · eula · disclaimer

• business_type — e-commerce · saas · healthcare · education · financial · fintech · real-estate · non-profit · consulting · media · mobile_app · other

• jurisdiction — one or more of gdpr ccpa pipeda lgpd us eu ca uk au br global (comma-separate to combine, e.g. gdpr,ccpa)

Optional context (improves output): website_url, service_description, data_collection[], third_party_integrations[], data_retention, user_accounts, payments, marketing, analytics, cookies, children_data, sells_data, target_audience[], security_measures[], governing_law, physical_address, dpo_email, consent_tracking, hosting_enabled.

generate_baa inputs

A Business Associate Agreement is a contract between two named parties, not a published policy, so it takes its own tool and its own fields. Pro plan.

Required: acknowledge_contract (must be true), baa_direction, company_name, contact_email, both parties' legal names and addresses, baa_effective_date (YYYY-MM-DD), baa_services_description, baa_phi_types[], baa_permitted_uses[], baa_governing_law_state.

• baa_direction — covered_entity_to_vendor (you are the practice issuing the agreement) or business_associate_to_client (you are the vendor offering it to a healthcare client)

• baa_phi_types[] — categories of PHI involved. Including "Substance use treatment records (42 CFR Part 2)" adds a Part 2 addendum

• baa_permitted_uses[] — anything not listed here is not permitted by the agreement (45 CFR 164.504(e)(2)(i))

Optional: baa_electronic_phi (default true), baa_uses_subcontractors (default false), baa_term_type, baa_term_end_date, baa_breach_notification_days (1–60, default 30), baa_return_or_destroy, baa_include_indemnification, baa_include_insurance, baa_insurance_amount.

Every generated agreement is checked against the 15 clauses 45 CFR 164.504(e) requires before it is returned; an incomplete draft is refused rather than handed back. The result is still a draft for counsel to review, and it is never published at a public URL.

Configuration

Only needed for the local (npx) transport. Remote connections authenticate over OAuth or an Authorization header instead.

How it works

This server is a thin wrapper over the PolicyForge public REST API (/api/v1). Every tool maps to one authenticated HTTP request, so quota, rate limiting, and policy generation stay authoritative on the PolicyForge server — the MCP layer holds no secrets beyond your API key and no business logic of its own.

License

MIT