ClauseKeeper Compliance Scanner
Scan website legal docs for missing or stale compliance clauses. Rule-based, no LLM.
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About
Scan website legal docs for missing or stale compliance clauses. Rule-based, no LLM.
Details
- Kind
- MCP servers
- Topic
- Security & identity
- Publisher
- mityda
- Origin
- official
- Category
- ferramentas
- Transport
- local
- Version
- 0.1.1
- Forks
- 5
- Open pull requests
- 2
- Last push
- 2026-06-23T19:45:31Z
- Repository state
- ativo
- Language
- Python
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Added
- 2026-08-29 04:00:50
- Updated
- 2026-08-29 04:00:50
- Origin id
io.github.mityda/clausekeeper
README
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# ClauseKeeper
### The open-source way to keep your website's legal documents current.
**Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Cookie Policy · AI-Disclosure** — generated in minutes, and kept up to date as the law changes.
[](LICENSE)
[](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)
[**🔎 Try the free scanner**](https://clausekeeper.app/scan) · [**🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes**](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md) · [**🤝 Contribute**](CONTRIBUTING.md)
⭐ **If this saves you a lawyer's invoice, drop a star — it genuinely helps.**
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## What is ClauseKeeper?
Every website needs a Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Cookie banner, and — as of 2026 — an **AI-disclosure** statement. The problem isn't *writing* them once. It's that **the law keeps moving**: the EU AI Act phases in, US states pass new privacy laws, and your "compliant" policy from last year is quietly stale.
ClauseKeeper does two things:
1. **🔎 Free compliance scanner** — paste your policy text or a URL, get a **0–100 score** and a checklist of missing or stale clauses (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, cookies, retention, **AI disclosure**, COPPA, and more). 100% rule-based, **no LLM, $0 to run.**
2. **📄 Document generator** — answer a short form, get a Privacy Policy, ToS, Cookie Policy, and a 2026 AI-Disclosure addendum with conditional clauses for your jurisdictions.
> **It's a starting point, not legal advice.** ClauseKeeper gets you 90% of the way and keeps you current — for the edge cases, talk to a lawyer.
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## 🆚 Open-source alternative to expensive compliance suites
The enterprise compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata, Delve, etc.) are built for funded startups closing SOC 2 / HIPAA enterprise deals — and priced accordingly (thousands per year, sales demos, audit-firm relationships).
**ClauseKeeper is the opposite end of the market:** self-serve, dirt-cheap, and open source. It's for the indie founder, freelancer, and small SaaS who just need their website's legal documents *correct and current* — without a sales call or an enterprise invoice.
| | Self-host (free) | Cloud (clausekeeper.app) |
|---|---|---|
| Free compliance scanner | ✅ | ✅ |
| Document generator | ✅ | ✅ |
| Hosted, versioned policy URLs | ✅ (your server) | ✅ |
| **Always-current** auto-updates when laws change | ⚙️ you maintain the clause rules | ✅ we maintain them for you |
| Billing / Stripe | n/a | ✅ |
| Maintenance | you | us |
If you self-host, **you own everything** — the scanner and generator run with zero external keys. The paid cloud tier exists for people who'd rather we keep the clause library current for them.
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## 🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes
```bash
git clone https://github.com/<your-org>/ClauseKeeper.git
cd ClauseKeeper
cp .env.example .env # defaults work out of the box; no paid keys needed
docker compose up
# open http://localhost:8000
```
The scanner and generator work immediately — **no Stripe, no API keys, nothing to sign up for.** Full guide: [docs/SELF_HOSTING.md](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md).
Prefer running it without Docker? See the [contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for the `uv` / `venv` dev setup.
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## 🛠 Tech stack
- **FastAPI** + Uvicorn (Python 3.11)
- **SQLite** for persistence (zero-config; swap-friendly)
- **Jinja2** templates, no JS framework — fast and simple
- Rule-based clause engine (`app/clause_rules.py`) — **no LLM dependency** for the core product
- Optional **Stripe** for the hosted billing tier
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## 🤖 Use with AI agents
ClauseKeeper is **agent-native** — built to be worked on (and used) by AI coding agents.
**Work on the repo with an agent:**
- **GitHub Copilot:** assign any [open issue](../../issues) to the Copilot coding agent — it reads [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md) and `.github/copilot-instructions.md`, makes the change, runs the tests, and opens a PR.
- **Cursor:** open the repo in Cursor and point a Cloud Agent at an issue — the same `AGENTS.md` context applies.
- Agent context, architecture, and exact build/test commands all live in [`AGENTS.md`](AGENTS.md).
**Use ClauseKeeper *from* an agent (MCP):**
We ship an [MCP server](mcp/) that exposes the compliance scanner as agent tools — so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP host can scan a privacy policy and get a score + missing-clause checklist. No API keys, runs locally.
```jsonc
// add to your MCP host config (e.g. Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
"mcpServers": {
"clausekeeper": { "command": "clausekeeper-mcp" }
}
}
```
Tools: `scan_policy_text`, `scan_policy_url`, `list_clause_rules`. See [mcp/README.md](mcp/README.md).
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## 🤝 Contributing
PRs welcome — this is a community project. Good first contributions:
- **Add / improve clause rules** for a jurisdiction you know (`app/clause_rules.py`)
- **New document templates** or template improvements (`templates/`)
- **Scanner heuristics** — catch more stale/missing clauses
- **Translations** of generated documents
See [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and check the [open issues](../../issues) for tasks tagged `good first issue`. Claim one by commenting and we'll assign it to you.
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## 📜 License
[AGPL-3.0](LICENSE) — free to use, modify, and self-host. If you run a modified version as a network service, you must share your changes. (We chose AGPL so the project stays open and improvements flow back to the community.)
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**Built for the indie web. Keep your documents current — without the lawyer's retainer.**
⭐ Star the repo · 🔎 [Scan your policy free](https://clausekeeper.app/scan) · 🐳 [Self-host it](docs/SELF_HOSTING.md)
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