deterministic-agent-control-protocol vs filesystem

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	deterministic-agent-control-protocol by elliot35	filesystem by modelcontextprotocol
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deterministic-agent-control-protocol · Summary

A governance gateway for AI agents providing bounded, auditable control via MCP proxy, shell proxy, and HTTP API.

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

deterministic-agent-control-protocol · Use cases

Securing AI agents by preventing access to sensitive files and secrets
Providing audit trails for all agent actions in enterprise environments
Enforcing organizational policies on development and deployment workflows

filesystem · Use cases

Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

deterministic-agent-control-protocol · Install

Installation

npm install @det-acp/core

Quick Start

Initialize governance for your AI agent:

npx det-acp init cursor        # For Cursor
npx det-acp init codex         # For Codex CLI
npx det-acp init claude-code   # For Claude Code

Configure Claude Desktop (if applicable):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "det-acp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@det-acp/core"]
    }
  }
}

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

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