Building a Local-First, Sovereign Data Pipeline for AI Agents using Python & MCP
How etl-pipeline-mcp handles high-velocity webhooks, PII scrubbing, and data warehouse loading without third-party dependencies.

As AI agents gain the ability to call external tools, data pipelines must adapt to ensure that the data fed into these models is clean, privacy-compliant, and well-structured.
Connecting an AI agent directly to an unmonitored production database or raw API stream opens up risks ranging from PII leaks (violating GDPR or HIPAA) to system lockups under high-velocity webhooks.
To solve this, the SEOSiri Open-Source Research Initiative built etl-pipeline-mcp—a local-first Model Context Protocol (MCP) server engineered in Python.
Core Architectural Features
Dual-Tier Ingestion (Hot/Cold Memory Architecture):
High-speed events from webhooks (Stripe, GitHub, Shopify, HubSpot) are instantly written to an in-memory Hot Tier (:memory:) with built-in backpressure controls.Automated PII Anonymization:
Before data is logged or moved to persistent storage, sensitive identifiers like email addresses and IP addresses undergo 256-bit SHA-256 hashing.Multi-Source Identity Resolution (ID Stitching):
Disparate identifiers across different platforms are automatically stitched together into a single, permanent mcp_root_id in the database registry.Warehouse & Data Lake Exports:
The server exposes tools for streaming clean records to Snowflake, ClickHouse, and BigQuery, as well as generating columnar Parquet buffers for DuckDB and S3.
Installation & Quickstart
You can install the package directly via PyPI:
pip install etl-pipeline-mcp
Or connect it to Claude Desktop or Cursor using uv:
{
"mcpServers": {
"seosiri-etl-pipeline": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"run",
"--github",
"SEOSiri-Official/etl-pipeline-mcp",
"src/main_server.py"
]
}
}
}
- Full Technical Guide: etl-pipeline-mcp by seosiri



