ClauseKeeper

The open-source way to keep your website's legal documents current.

Privacy Policy · Terms of Service · Cookie Policy · AI-Disclosure — generated in minutes, and kept up to date as the law changes.

🔎 Try the free scanner · 🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes · 🤝 Contribute

⭐ If this saves you a lawyer's invoice, drop a star — it genuinely helps.

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What is ClauseKeeper?

Every website needs a Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, Cookie banner, and — as of 2026 — an AI-disclosure statement. The problem isn't writing them once. It's that the law keeps moving: the EU AI Act phases in, US states pass new privacy laws, and your "compliant" policy from last year is quietly stale.

ClauseKeeper does two things:

1. 🔎 Free compliance scanner — paste your policy text or a URL, get a 0–100 score and a checklist of missing or stale clauses (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, cookies, retention, AI disclosure, COPPA, and more). 100% rule-based, no LLM, $0 to run.
2. 📄 Document generator — answer a short form, get a Privacy Policy, ToS, Cookie Policy, and a 2026 AI-Disclosure addendum with conditional clauses for your jurisdictions.

It's a starting point, not legal advice. ClauseKeeper gets you 90% of the way and keeps you current — for the edge cases, talk to a lawyer.

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🆚 Open-source alternative to expensive compliance suites

The enterprise compliance platforms (Vanta, Drata, Delve, etc.) are built for funded startups closing SOC 2 / HIPAA enterprise deals — and priced accordingly (thousands per year, sales demos, audit-firm relationships).

ClauseKeeper is the opposite end of the market: self-serve, dirt-cheap, and open source. It's for the indie founder, freelancer, and small SaaS who just need their website's legal documents correct and current — without a sales call or an enterprise invoice.

	Self-host (free)	Cloud (clausekeeper.app)
Free compliance scanner	✅	✅
Document generator	✅	✅
Hosted, versioned policy URLs	✅ (your server)	✅
Always-current auto-updates when laws change	⚙️ you maintain the clause rules	✅ we maintain them for you
Billing / Stripe	n/a	✅
Maintenance	you	us

If you self-host, you own everything — the scanner and generator run with zero external keys. The paid cloud tier exists for people who'd rather we keep the clause library current for them.

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🐳 Self-host in 2 minutes

git clone https://github.com/<your-org>/ClauseKeeper.git
cd ClauseKeeper
cp .env.example .env          # defaults work out of the box; no paid keys needed
docker compose up
# open http://localhost:8000

The scanner and generator work immediately — no Stripe, no API keys, nothing to sign up for. Full guide: docs/SELF_HOSTING.md.

Prefer running it without Docker? See the contributing guide for the uv / venv dev setup.

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🛠 Tech stack

• FastAPI + Uvicorn (Python 3.11)
• SQLite for persistence (zero-config; swap-friendly)
• Jinja2 templates, no JS framework — fast and simple
• Rule-based clause engine (app/clause_rules.py) — no LLM dependency for the core product
• Optional Stripe for the hosted billing tier

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🤖 Use with AI agents

ClauseKeeper is agent-native — built to be worked on (and used) by AI coding agents.

Work on the repo with an agent:

• GitHub Copilot: assign any open issue to the Copilot coding agent — it reads AGENTS.md and .github/copilot-instructions.md, makes the change, runs the tests, and opens a PR.
• Cursor: open the repo in Cursor and point a Cloud Agent at an issue — the same AGENTS.md context applies.
• Agent context, architecture, and exact build/test commands all live in AGENTS.md.

Use ClauseKeeper from an agent (MCP): We ship an MCP server that exposes the compliance scanner as agent tools — so Claude, Cursor, or any MCP host can scan a privacy policy and get a score + missing-clause checklist. No API keys, runs locally.

// add to your MCP host config (e.g. Claude Desktop / Cursor)
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "clausekeeper": { "command": "clausekeeper-mcp" }
  }
}

Tools: scan_policy_text, scan_policy_url, list_clause_rules. See mcp/README.md.

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🤝 Contributing

PRs welcome — this is a community project. Good first contributions:

• Add / improve clause rules for a jurisdiction you know (app/clause_rules.py)
• New document templates or template improvements (templates/)
• Scanner heuristics — catch more stale/missing clauses
• Translations of generated documents

See CONTRIBUTING.md and check the open issues for tasks tagged good first issue. Claim one by commenting and we'll assign it to you.

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📜 License

AGPL-3.0 — free to use, modify, and self-host. If you run a modified version as a network service, you must share your changes. (We chose AGPL so the project stays open and improvements flow back to the community.)

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Built for the indie web. Keep your documents current — without the lawyer's retainer.

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