What is US_Compliance_MCP CLAUDE.md?

Development instructions for building and maintaining a local MCP server that searches United States compliance laws. The project uses TypeScript and a SQLite database with full-text search.

It helps developers install, configure, and extend a regulation-search server covering federal and state cybersecurity and privacy laws.

It gives contributors a shared description of the project's features, technology, data sources, and setup process.

How hhannis/US_Compliance_MCP configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to hhannis/US_Compliance_MCP. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hhannis/US_Compliance_MCP/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hhannis/US_Compliance_MCP

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 1,322 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 1,322 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.01322	$0.01322
Opus 5	$0.00661	$0.00661
Sonnet 5	$0.00264	$0.00264
Haiku 4.5	$0.00132	$0.00132

Measured 8d ago against content hash 96e03f6d57ce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

US_Compliance_MCP CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 8d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 204 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 204 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

US Regulations MCP - Development Guide

Part of the Ansvar MCP Suite → See central architecture docs for complete suite documentation

Project Overview

MCP server providing searchable access to US federal and state compliance laws. Local-first architecture using TypeScript, SQLite + FTS5.

Key Features

15 US Regulations: HIPAA, CCPA, SOX, GLBA, FERPA, COPPA, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, and 8 more
Federal & State Laws: Complete text with cross-references
Breach Notification: Timeline mapping for all states
Full-Text Search: SQLite FTS5 across all regulations
Cross-Regulation Comparison: Compare requirements across laws

Tech Stack

Language: TypeScript
Database: SQLite with FTS5 full-text search
Package Manager: npm
Distribution: npm (npm install @ansvar/us-regulations-mcp)
Data Sources: GPO, state government sites (official public sources)

Quick Start

# Install globally
npm install -g @ansvar/us-regulations-mcp

# Or use with npx
npx @ansvar/us-regulations-mcp

# Claude Desktop config
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "us-regulations": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@ansvar/us-regulations-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Project Structure

US_Compliance_MCP/
├── src/
│   ├── index.ts               # MCP server entry point
│   ├── database/              # SQLite database layer
│   ├── tools/                 # MCP tool implementations
│   └── data/
│       └── regulations.db     # Pre-built database (~10MB)
├── data/seed/                 # Source JSON files
│   ├── hipaa.json
│   ├── ccpa.json
│   └── ... (13 more)
├── scripts/                   # Ingestion scripts
└── tests/                     # Test suite

Regulations Included

Healthcare

HIPAA - Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
HITECH - Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act

Read the full file on GitHub · 204 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

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US_Compliance_MCP CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository hhannis/US_Compliance_MCP (0 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 1,322 tokens to every session, about $0.0066 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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