42Crunch MCP Governance is a continuous compliance and security enforcement capability for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers. It discovers MCP servers across the enterprise, audits and scores them against a machine-readable MCP Contract, scans running servers for drift and OWASP MCP Top 10 vulnerabilities, and enforces Security Quality Gates in CI/CD — mapping every finding to the specific regulatory control it breaches (NIST AI RMF, OWASP MCP Top 10, EU AI Act, ISO/IEC 42001, CSA AICM).

An MCP server exposes tools, resources and prompts that AI agents can invoke autonomously. Unlike a REST API called deterministically, an MCP server is invoked by an LLM-driven agent — so a mis-scoped tool or an unpinned instruction set can produce untraceable agent actions with no audit trail. Governance closes that gap.

NIST AI RMF (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage), the OWASP MCP Top 10, the EU AI Act's technical documentation, logging and human-oversight obligations, ISO/IEC 42001 AI management-system controls, and the CSA AI Controls Matrix (AICM), including its CCC and GRC control families.

Deterministic. The same MCP server evaluated twice returns the same score, the same findings and the same verdict, because scoring runs against a common enterprise policy schema rather than subjective LLM judgment. That reproducibility is what makes the record usable as audit evidence.

No. Point 42Crunch at a live MCP server URL and it discovers every tool, resource and prompt automatically and generates an initial contract, including best-effort inferences for risk level and data classification.

Security Quality Gates (SQGs) block non-compliant MCP servers in CI/CD before they reach production, so a failing server cannot ship rather than merely appearing on a dashboard as a known issue.

Yes. Every audit, scan and gate decision produces a versioned, scored, framework-mapped record that exports as a report for auditors, regulators and customer security reviews, without manual assembly.

Under 60 seconds. Point a scan at any MCP server URL to get a scored report against the OWASP MCP Top 10 and your configured regulatory frameworks — no agent install, no deployment, no commitment required.

A gateway or WAF inspects traffic at the network layer against generic rule sets — it doesn't know what an MCP tool is permitted to do, what data it touches, or which regulatory control a violation maps to. 42Crunch works from the MCP Contract, an explicit tool-level specification, so every finding is contract-aware and traceable to root cause rather than a generic traffic anomaly.

Most AI-SPM/CSPM tools inventory and score cloud or AI assets against general best-practice checklists at a point in time. 42Crunch is protocol-specific to MCP, generates a machine-readable contract per server, continuously re-tests for drift against that contract, and enforces the result in CI/CD — posture management without an enforceable gate leaves a finding open instead of blocking it.

No. A pentest is a point-in-time snapshot that goes stale the moment a tool definition changes. 42Crunch continuously discovers and re-tests MCP servers, so drift — an unauthorized change to a tool, permission or auth scheme — is caught between review cycles rather than at the next annual audit.

A GRC platform is where evidence is stored and reported to leadership and auditors. 42Crunch is where that evidence is generated, at the point every audit and scan actually runs, instead of being assembled manually afterward from documents and screenshots. The exportable report is built to feed directly into existing GRC workflows, not replace them.

No — it's the same governance model (Contract → Audit → Scan → Protect) 42Crunch has applied to REST and GraphQL APIs for a decade, now extended to MCP. Existing OpenAPI-based governance keeps running unchanged; MCP governance is additive coverage for the agent-to-tool surface those APIs didn't previously cover.