If you're shipping AI features and need to stay on the right side of the EU AI Act, this server gives you deterministic risk classification and ready-to-ship Article 50 transparency notices. It exposes two MCP tools: acttrace_classify runs your feature description through the risk engine and tells you whether it's minimal, limited, high, or out of scope, while acttrace_generate_transparency_notice drafts the legally required disclosure text for chatbots or other user-facing AI. The whole thing runs locally via uvx with no API key for the MCP path, or you can hit the REST endpoints if you want metered access. Scoped to non-financial SaaS, so banking and credit scoring are explicitly out. Not legal advice, but a solid starting point for compliance documentation.
A developer-facing EU AI Act compliance API for non-financial SaaS and technology companies. ActTrace gives an engineering team three things, self-serve, over an API or via MCP:
Not legal advice. ActTrace provides operational compliance workflow support and documentation drafts. It does not provide legal advice, does not certify compliance, and does not replace review by qualified counsel. Every response carries this disclaimer.
ActTrace is scoped for non-financial companies. Financial-services use
cases (banking, trading, portfolio/investment advice, credit scoring, …) are
deliberately classified out_of_scope_financial_services.
ActTrace ships as a Claude Code plugin: an acttrace skill plus a local MCP
server. The MCP server runs via uvx — a deterministic rules engine, offline,
no API key.
/plugin marketplace add goww7/acttrace
/plugin install acttrace@acttrace
Then ask Claude "Is my chatbot EU AI Act compliant?" or "Write an Article 50
notice for our support assistant." The MCP server also runs standalone with
any MCP client: uvx acttrace-mcp.
python3 -m venv .venv && .venv/bin/pip install -r requirements.txt
.venv/bin/uvicorn acttrace.app:app --reload --port 8080
# 1. Free diagnostic — no key needed
curl -s localhost:8080/api/acttrace/diagnostics/free -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
"feature_name": "AI reply assistant",
"description": "Drafts suggested customer support replies for agents.",
"user_facing": true, "model_provider": "OpenAI", "use_case": "support_assist"
}'
# 2. Mint an API key
KEY=$(curl -s -XPOST localhost:8080/api/keys/generate | python3 -c 'import sys,json;print(json.load(sys.stdin)["api_key"])')
# 3. Classify (15 tokens)
curl -s localhost:8080/api/acttrace/classify -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
"feature_name": "AI reply assistant",
"description": "Drafts customer support replies shown to agents.",
"use_case": "support_assist", "user_facing": true, "model_provider": "OpenAI"
}'
# 4. Generate an Article 50 notice (10 tokens)
curl -s localhost:8080/api/acttrace/notices -H "X-API-Key: $KEY" -H 'content-type: application/json' -d '{
"ai_system_name": "Support Copilot", "notice_type": "chatbot", "tone": "plain"
}'
| Method & path | Auth | Tokens | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
POST /api/acttrace/diagnostics/free | none | 0 | Public risk diagnostic |
POST /api/acttrace/classify | key | 15 | Documented risk classification |
POST /api/acttrace/notices | key | 10 | Article 50 transparency notice |
POST /api/keys/generate | none | 0 | Issue a free-plan key |
GET /api/health | none | 0 | Liveness |
Auth is X-API-Key. Responses carry X-Request-ID, X-Plan,
X-Tokens-Charged, X-Tokens-Remaining, X-RateLimit-*. Errors are
structured {"code","message","detail"} (401/403/429).
python -m acttrace.mcp_server --sse --port 8002 exposes two tools —
acttrace_classify and acttrace_generate_transparency_notice — authenticated
with the same X-API-Key. A Claude Code skill is in skill/acttrace/.
.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q
54 tests: classification engine (7 acceptance fixtures), conflict guard, notice generator, and HTTP API contract.
docker-compose.yml builds a standalone two-container stack (API + MCP) on
ports 8080 / 8002 with its own volume — isolated from FinanceData2. To go live,
append caddy-acttrace.snippet to the shared Caddyfile (replace the
placeholder domain). See BLUEPRINT.md for the full build contract.
acttrace/
app.py config.py dependencies.py
middleware/ api_key_auth.py
routers/ acttrace.py keys.py
services/ acttrace_service.py acttrace_classification_service.py
acttrace_notice_service.py acttrace_constants.py
api_key_service.py
repositories/ acttrace_repository.py api_key_repository.py
schemas/ acttrace.py
mcp_server/ server.py __main__.py context.py tools/acttrace.py
skill/acttrace/ SKILL.md README.md
tests/