Secure Context Value Model

Why this page exists. SecurityRecipes should not look like a pile of interesting artifacts. It should look like a product that can become a hosted secure context layer. The value model explains the open moat, the hosted-ready proof paths, the reviewer segments, and the conservative operational-impact assumptions in one MCP-readable artifact.

SecurityRecipes is positioned as The Secure Context Layer for Agentic AI. The technical foundation is already in place: secure context packs, MCP authorization and drift controls, run receipts, telemetry contracts, evals, incident response, entitlement review, protocol conformance, and a trust-center export. The next review-ready move is to make the business case explicit.

The Secure Context Value Model does that without pretending the public repo has already proven hosted adoption proof. It names what is proven now, what remains assumption-based, which reviewer segments care, which hosted-ready deployment paths are natural, and what customer telemetry must be attached before the operational-impact story becomes review-grade.

What was added

  • data/assurance/secure-context-value-model-profile.json - source profile for reviewer segments, value drivers, adoption scenarios, hosted-readiness paths, diligence questions, and source references.
  • data/evidence/secure-context-value-model.json - generated value model with scenario economics, evidence hashes, source-pack status, and trust review readiness.
  • recipes_secure_context_value_model - MCP tool for the full model, a value driver, reviewer segment, scenario, hosted-readiness path, or diligence question.

What the model contains

Section Purpose
value_model_summary Source-pack readiness, scenario count, value-driver count, assumption status, and annual net value range from the default scenarios.
value_drivers Open knowledge distribution, production MCP control plane, trust-center evidence, runtime receipts/evals, and standards drift.
buyer_segments Frontier model lab, AI platform vendor, security platform vendor, and regulated enterprise reviewer views.
adoption_scenarios Conservative pilot, platform rollout, and hosted MCP control-plane economics.
hosted_readiness_gates Hosted MCP policy, private secure-context registry, run-receipt vault, trust-center API, and continuous agentic evals.
diligence_questions Answers to why this is not docs-only, what is open, what is hosted-ready, what proves operational impact, and what remains unproven.
acquisition_readiness Current signal, missing proof points, and the conditions needed before a trusted-source outcome is credible.

The Operational-impact model is intentionally conservative and explicit. It uses assumptions such as runs per month, avoided remediation hours, reviewer time, loaded hourly cost, platform cost, and implementation cost. The generated pack labels those numbers as assumptions until customer run receipts and telemetry replace them.

Product implications

This feature pushes the site toward the right shape for a serious enterprise or reviewer review:

  • The open corpus remains the distribution engine.
  • The generated evidence packs become the product proof.
  • The MCP server becomes the inspectable access layer.
  • Hosted MCP policy, private context, drift monitoring, receipts, eval replay, and trust-center APIs become the hosted-ready surface.
  • Customer telemetry becomes the proof point for ROI and renewal.

That is a more credible path than selling prompts. A reviewer can inspect the technical artifacts, understand the economic assumptions, and see exactly what still needs to be built for hosted trust value.

MCP examples

Inspect the full model:

recipes_secure_context_value_model()

Inspect one value driver:

recipes_secure_context_value_model(driver_id="production-mcp-control-plane")

Inspect the hosted MCP scenario:

recipes_secure_context_value_model(scenario_id="hosted-mcp-control-plane")

Answer a diligence question:

recipes_secure_context_value_model(question_id="what-is-acquirable")

Industry alignment

The profile is source-backed by current primary guidance:

See also