MCP Event Intelligence

Durable temporal event intelligence for sleeping agents.

MCP Event Intelligence is an experimental event runtime for agents that need to react to future conditions over multiple event sources without keeping an LLM or agent loop alive.

The primary integration model is embedded and host-owned: the agent host keeps its existing MCP clients, transports, OAuth sessions and provider credentials. Event Intelligence receives a reference to the host's MCP registry, discovers the already-connected clients automatically, and uses only the Events-capable ones.

An agent can express an intent such as:

When this PR is merged, the production deploy succeeds, and no error is observed for 10 minutes, wake this task and review the release.

Event Intelligence persists that continuation independently of the model, waits for the world to satisfy it, and wakes the host only when necessary.

Embed it in an existing agent host

Install from npm:

npm install mcp-event-intelligence

Published package: npm · Official MCP Registry

Pass the harness-level MCP registry once — not every MCP one by one:

import {
  createEventIntelligenceHost,
  createMcpRegistryAdapter,
} from 'mcp-event-intelligence/host';

const ei = await createEventIntelligenceHost({
  dataDir: './data',
  mcpRegistry: createMcpRegistryAdapter({
    listConnections: () => host.mcp.listConnections(),
    subscribe: (refresh) => host.mcp.onConnectionsChanged(refresh),
  }),
  wake: async (packet) => {
    const receipt = await host.resume(packet.target, packet);
    return { runtimeReceiptId: receipt.id };
  },
});

Event Intelligence enumerates the host registry automatically. GitHub, Gmail, private/company MCPs and future connections do not need to be configured again inside EI. Tools-only MCPs remain available to the agent and are ignored by the Events layer; Events-capable MCPs are attached automatically.

Related MCP server: datasieve-mcp

What v0.1 implements

Host-owned event sources

• automatic discovery from the host's existing MCP registry;

• reuse of already-connected MCP clients without duplicate credentials;

• experimental MCP Events capability discovery;

• events/list and events/poll;

• persistent opaque cursors;

• automatic event-source registration;

• dynamic attach/detach of host MCP clients;

• provider-native compatibility adapters such as GitHub webhooks.

Composite and temporal triggers

• allOf, anyOf, sequence, count;

• deterministic same-value correlation;

• optional semantic correlation;

• absence, not, unless, after, until;

• debounce, threshold, rate, distinct;

• calendar-aware conditions with IANA timezones;

• durable deadlines that continue even when no new provider event arrives.

Agent-authored continuations

• event-source discovery;

• agent-authored structured trigger definitions;

• deterministic validation against real source schemas and advertised fields;

• approval-gated persistent mutations;

• one-shot, cooldown, max-firings, expiry, leases, update and delete.

Derived events and composition

Triggers can emit immutable higher-level events instead of waking an agent:

pr.merged + deploy.succeeded
              ↓
        release.ready@1
              +
       manager.approved
              ↓
       rollout.allowed@1
              ↓
          runtime wake

Derived events preserve refs-only lineage to their direct parents and flattened root evidence.

Versioned contracts

Derived event names are versioned contracts such as release.ready@1.

• first producer establishes the canonical schema;

• compatible producers may join the same contract version;

• incompatible schemas fail before trigger persistence;

• multiple versions may coexist;

• ambiguous unversioned consumers fail closed;

• every occurrence carries a schema fingerprint.

Host or callback wake

An embedded harness can provide one in-process wake dispatcher that routes by target.runtime, target.kind and target.id; runtime-specific handlers remain available as a lower-level option. A standalone deployment can instead use signed HMAC callbacks. Both paths return a stable runtimeReceiptId.

Why this exists

MCP Events is concerned with the event transport/subscription boundary. Event Intelligence explores the layer above transport:

• how an agent declares a future condition;

• how multi-event state survives while the agent sleeps;

• how absence/time becomes an event;

• how higher-level facts are derived without invoking a model;

• how those facts can be safely composed;

• how a host resumes an agent effectively once in the validated scenarios.

This project does not propose a replacement for MCP Events and does not claim to be an official MCP extension.

AI and API keys

Event Intelligence has one optional AI boundary: semantic correlation.

• TYPESAFE_API_KEY enables the bundled TypeSafe Jev evaluator when a trigger explicitly requests semantic correlation.

• embedded hosts may inject a compatible semanticEvaluator instead.

• there is no bundled OpenAI planner and no OpenAI API dependency.

The agent/harness is already responsible for reasoning and can author a structured trigger directly from event_sources_list / the discovered schemas. Deterministic correlation, temporal logic, persistence, derived events and wake delivery require no model API.

Full-system acceptance

The v0.1 acceptance suite verifies:

• host-owned MCP client → event discovery/poll → composite match → in-process wake;

• provider-neutral events → composite match → derived event → derived composition → signed runtime wake;

• contract schema evolution and ambiguity rejection;

• refs-only root provenance;

• replay without duplicate derived events or wakes;

• process shutdown while a temporal deadline is pending;

• restart on the same datastore after the deadline;

• wake recovery without a new provider event;

• hash-linked audit verification.

A separate live regression also verified real GitHub webhook ingress into the MCP EventOccurrence / composite fan-in path.

Standalone reference service

Requirements

• Node.js 22+

• no external database for the reference setup

git clone https://github.com/sarooo17/event-intelligence.git
cd event-intelligence
npm ci
npm run check

export SERVICE_AUTH_TOKEN="$(openssl rand -hex 32)"
npm start

Then:

curl http://127.0.0.1:3000/readyz

The standalone service supports manual/provider-native event ingress. It does not own arbitrary MCP connections; host-owned MCP reuse belongs to the package integration above.

Docker

docker build -t mcp-event-intelligence:0.1.0 .

docker run --rm \
  -p 3000:3000 \
  -v mcp-event-intelligence-data:/data \
  -e SERVICE_AUTH_TOKEN="$(openssl rand -hex 32)" \
  mcp-event-intelligence:0.1.0

Optional MCP control plane

The package also exposes a standard MCP stdio control plane through the official TypeScript SDK v2:

npx mcp-event-intelligence mcp

Read/non-mutating tools are exposed by default, including event_sources_list, inspection, simulation, contracts and runtime status. An agent uses those discovered source schemas to author the structured definition passed to trigger_create.

Persistent trigger mutations are only registered when the operator explicitly enables MCP_WRITE_ENABLED=true, and each mutation still requires a confirmationId. The MCP server is a control-plane adapter; it is not a gateway through which the host's other MCP servers must be reconnected.

See docs/QUICKSTART.md and docs/MCP-REGISTRY.md.

Configuration

Standalone/core environment variables:

Embedded hosts pass one MCP registry adapter. Event Intelligence discovers already-connected clients from that registry; provider MCP connection settings are not duplicated inside EI.

Architecture

The detailed execution model, clocks, lifecycle, persistence and trust boundaries are documented in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md.

Important semantics

Event-time vs processing-time

Normal event windows use event occurredAt.

Absence/deadline progression uses Event Intelligence processing time. This separation is explicit and tested.

Effectively-once runtime activation

The implementation does not claim theoretical distributed exactly-once delivery.

It uses stable wake IDs, persistence, deduplication, runtime receipts and replay handling to provide effectively-once runtime activation in the validated reference scenarios.

Derived event vs current state

A derived event says what became true at a point in history.

v0.1 intentionally does not implement a mutable current-state/facts database.

Security

Read SECURITY.md and docs/SECURITY-MODEL.md.

In embedded mode, the host retains MCP authorization and credentials; Event Intelligence discovers only the client objects exposed through the host-provided MCP registry. The v0.1 reference store is JSONL and single-writer.

MCP compatibility status

There are two separate MCP boundaries:

• event ingress: host-owned, already-connected MCP clients exposing experimental Events, plus provider-native adapters;

• control plane: optional standard MCP stdio server built on the official TypeScript SDK v2 and targeting protocol revision 2026-07-28.

Registry identity:

io.github.sarooo17/event-intelligence

server.json is validated with the official mcp-publisher validate command in CI. MCP Events itself remains experimental and may change as the Triggers & Events work evolves.

Project status

v0.1 reference implementation / experimental.

The architecture is implemented and exercised end-to-end. Remaining work is primarily production storage/HA, broader host/provider evidence, scale benchmarks and upstream feedback.

Example

See the release-gate example for a composed future-condition flow using durable time, derived events and targeted wake.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Contributions are especially useful around host adapters, MCP Events compatibility, temporal semantics, production persistence, security review and reproducible provider integrations.

License

Apache License 2.0. See LICENSE.

Disclaimer

This is an independent open-source project. It is not an official Model Context Protocol specification and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the MCP maintainers.