🛡️ C Sentinel — Autonomous AI Contract Sentinel

An enterprise-grade, MCP-powered AI agent system for automated contract ingestion, clause extraction, continuous risk monitoring, and real-time LLM integration.

🚀 Live Demos

Frontend Dashboard (Vercel): https://contract-sentinel-seven.vercel.app
MCP Backend Endpoint (NitroCloud): https://c-sentinel-6a6ca7d2-dcoders-srmist.app.nitrocloud.ai

📌 Overview

C Sentinel is an autonomous risk-analysis agent built to solve enterprise legal bottlenecks. Powered by the Model Context Protocol (MCP), C Sentinel continuously monitors, ingests, and analyzes legal agreements (MSAs, NDAs, SLAs) to extract critical risk factors, uncapped liabilities, and dangerous SLA terms.

It provides both a modern, interactive web dashboard for human operators and a standardized MCP server interface that seamlessly integrates with external LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude.

✨ Key Features

📄 Automated Contract Ingestion: Ingest vendor agreements and instantly calculate overall risk scores (0–100%).
🧠 Continuous Sentinel Analysis Cycle: Autonomous background cycle that audits all stored agreements for non-compliant clauses.
⚡ Model Context Protocol (MCP) Native: Exposed as a streamable MCP server, allowing LLMs (like ChatGPT or Claude Desktop) to invoke tool actions (ingest, fetch_contracts, run_analysis) natively.
📊 Real-Time Operations Dashboard: Built with React, Vite, and Tailwind CSS to display contract velocity, risk breakdown charts, and active alerts.

🏗️ Architecture & Deployment

   ┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
   │                  ChatGPT / LLM Connectors               │
   └────────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                                │ (MCP Protocol)
                                ▼
 ┌──────────────────────┐   ┌───────────────────────────────┐
 │   Vercel Frontend    │──▶│      NitroCloud Backend       │
 │    (React / Vite)    │   │     (NitroStack MCP Server)   │
 └──────────────────────┘   └───────────────────────────────┘

Component	Tech Stack	Hosting Platform
Frontend UI	React, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS	Vercel
Agent Backend	Node.js, TypeScript, NitroStack MCP SDK	NitroCloud
Repository	Monorepo Structure (`/ui` & `/server`)	GitHub

⚙️ Environment Variables

Frontend (`/ui`)

Configure the backend connection URL in your .env file or deployment settings:

VITE_API_BASE_URL=https://c-sentinel-6a6ca7d2-dcoders-srmist.app.nitrocloud.ai

🛠️ Local Development Quickstart

Prerequisites

Node.js (v18+)
npm / pnpm

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/sachin0610-srm/contract-sentinel.git
cd contract-sentinel

2. Run Backend (MCP Server)

cd server
npm install
npm run dev

3. Run Frontend UI

cd ../ui
npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:5173 to access the local dashboard.

🔌 Connecting to ChatGPT / External MCP Clients

Open ChatGPT $\rightarrow$ Settings $\rightarrow$ Developer Mode / Apps.
Add a new MCP Connector / Server.

Set Server URL to:

https://c-sentinel-6a6ca7d2-dcoders-srmist.app.nitrocloud.ai/mcp

Set Authentication to No Auth and save!

👥 Authors & Credits

Developed with ❤️ for the Hackathon by Sachin K (@sachin0610-srm).