Does Govera replace our agenda system?

No. Govera works alongside existing systems by helping staff create, review, and prepare materials before posting.

Do you work with agencies in my state?

Govera serves public agencies in every state, county, parish, and city. Your location never limits what we can do for you. We load your own ordinances, policies, and records, so drafts are grounded in your jurisdiction's rules, not a generic template.

Does Govera replace the city attorney?

No. Govera provides drafting assistance and compliance flags, but final legal review stays with the city.

Can Govera match our current agenda style?

Yes. Govera can learn from prior agendas, memos, resolutions, ordinances, and templates.

Can council members use it?

Yes, if enabled. Council members can review polished materials and submit questions before meetings.

§ 00Developers & AI Agents

Govera for developers
and AI agents

Govera exposes a set of public, read only, machine readable resources so developers and AI agents can discover what Govera is and what it does: static product JSON files, an MCP manifest, and a live system status endpoint. No authentication is required.

Authenticated agency data APIs are not publicly available. Drafting and search, the parts of Govera that touch a real agency's meeting record, are used only through the Govera app.

§ 01Public API

Public API

Every endpoint below is an HTTP GET request that returns application/json on success and RFC 9457 application/problem+json on error. The first four are static JSON files describing the product; the last is the live system status served by the Govera app. No authentication is required. Call any endpoint below with a plain GET request. Authenticated agency data APIs are not publicly available.

Base URLhttps://www.govera.co/api/v1

Every response carries standard rate limit headers: RateLimit-Limit, RateLimit-Remaining, and RateLimit-Reset, so agents can throttle their own request rate. A 429 response includes Retry-After. See the API reference for details.

01GET/api/v1/statusService status and version.

02GET/api/v1/productPublic product metadata.

03GET/api/v1/capabilitiesList of product capabilities.

04GET/api/v1/guidesList of public guides.

05GEThttps://app.govera.co/api/v1/public/statusLive system status and measured uptime.

Read the OpenAPI 3.1 specification →Browse the full API reference →

§ 02MCP Server

Model Context Protocol

Govera publishes govera-mcp-server, an MCP server that exposes the public API as a set of callable tools, so any MCP aware agent or IDE can discover and use Govera's public endpoints natively: no custom HTTP client required, and no authentication needed.

The discovery manifest is served at /.well-known/mcp, the same well known location MCP clients already check first.

Run it locally

npx -y govera-mcp-server

Starts a local MCP server that proxies to the public API described above. Point any MCP compatible client at the resulting stdio or socket endpoint.

§ 03Tooling

Command line

Coming soon

govera-cli is a small CLI for scripting against the public API from a terminal or CI pipeline, without writing HTTP calls by hand. No authentication needed.

npx govera-cli status

Resources for AI assistants

Machine readable files answer engines and agents check first, kept current alongside the site itself.

§ 04Get Started

Building something with Govera?

Talk to the team about what the public API and MCP server can support today, and what an agency specific integration could look like.