Government: Permit Application Review with Claude Code: MCP Tool Boundary
A production playbook for permit application review in government operations using Claude Code: mcp tool boundary, run-scoped inputs, logs, typed results, and artifacts.
Audience: Public sector and regulated industry operations teams
The problem
Public sector and regulated industry operations teams need permit application review to run repeatedly against application forms, evidence, maps, certificates, and agency guidance. In government operations, the pain is not one good answer; it is repeatability, auditability, exception handling, and evidence that survives handoff.
Implementation path
Expose only the MCP tools needed for permit application review, validate tool arguments, keep credentials in the owning service, and log each call outside the sandbox.
Tradeoffs and failure modes
Narrow tool boundaries reduce agent flexibility, but make the integration reviewable and supportable. For permit application review, the practical test is whether a second run can be debugged, retried, and consumed by a product without reading the raw agent transcript.
Tool policy
tool: government-permit-application-review_lookup
agent: Claude Code
input_scope: /skill/.argo/inputs
credential_owner: broker
log_arguments: true
network_policy: allowlisted
Run this on Argo