Keep governance data close to the team without giving up the same decision and export model.

This is not the main story. It is the right story for teams that run local agents or local models and still need MCP control, packet export and review posture they can defend later.

Why it matters

Policy and review posture stay local to the operator environment

Some teams care less about hosted orchestration and more about keeping mandates, configs and local-tool review paths close to their own machines.

What stays the same

The packet model does not change

Intent, policy decision, approval state, receipt trail and audit export should read the same whether the origin was local or hosted.

Where NORNR fits

MCP is the local execution surface that matters most first

Put NORNR above consequential MCP tool execution and only then talk about broader local-first posture.