Product concepts

Systems and Flows

A System is the product boundary that owns validation workflows. A Flow is a versioned workflow definition that belongs to a System.

Runs, Reports, and Evidence

A Run is an execution of an existing Flow. A Report is the output of a Run. An Evidence Bundle contains the evidence that supports the Report.

Runs are separate entities from Reports. A Run review is not a Release review.

MCP boundaries

FidesLayer has two intentionally separate MCP services:

Service	Endpoint	Responsibility
Global/customer MCP	https://mcp.fideslayer.com/mcp	Authenticated customer-agent access to approved product capabilities.
Docs-only MCP	https://docs.fideslayer.com/mcp	Documentation search and retrieval only.

The global/customer MCP is backed by fideslayer/mcp-gateway. The docs-only MCP is a separate service. Neither endpoint is an alias for the other.

The static docs site is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. Hosting the docs does not host or implement either MCP.