Agent Provenance MCP Server

io.github.jdhart81/agent-provenance

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Agent Provenance is answering right now. Last checked 4 min ago. It exposes 11 tools. Last commit 3 Aug 2026.

Genesis certificates, lineage, and cascading recalls: birth certificates + bloodlines for the agent

Uptime history 40 hours of history

40 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

334 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 3 Aug 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add agent-provenance --transport http https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-provenance": {
      "url": "https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.agent-provenance]
url = "https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-provenance": {
      "url": "https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-provenance": {
      "url": "https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 11

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

register_artifact

Register a content-addressed artifact in a separate provenance DAG. Parent hashes may be registered artifacts or external content roots. Idempotent on artifact_id; does not consume a genesis index.

register_genesis

Register an agent's birth. Issues a content-addressed genesis certificate with a strictly monotone index (epoch 0 = the founding cohort). parent_id records lineage; children of recalled/quarantined parents are quarantined at birth. Idempotent — an agent is born once.

verify

verify_artifact

Recompute an artifact record hash and verify it against the DAG ledger.

verify_certificate

Verify a certificate: recompute its content hash and check the ledger.

artifact

get_artifact

Fetch one registered artifact by artifact_id.

artifacts

list_artifacts

List artifacts, optionally filtered by producer agent.

certificate

get_certificate

Fetch an agent's genesis certificate + recall/quarantine status.

describe

describe_agent

Fleet-standard self-description.

lineage

lineage

Full ancestry and descendants of an agent, plus its generation number.

recall

recall

Recall an agent: flags it and quarantines every transitive descendant. Reports exactly which agents were quarantined.

records

list_records

List genesis records, optionally by epoch (0 = founding cohort).

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.viridisconservation.com/provenance/mcp	streamable-http	answering	370 ms	4 min ago

Agent Provenance — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Agent Provenance do?

It exposes 11 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: describe_agent, get_artifact, get_certificate, lineage, list_artifacts, list_records and 5 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

What is Agent Provenance mostly used for?

Its tools cluster around register and verify. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.

Is Agent Provenance working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 334 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Agent Provenance?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Agent Provenance need an API key?

No. Agent Provenance completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 11 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Agent Provenance?

It answers our handshake in 334 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Agent Provenance open source?

Yes — written in Python, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.