# `io.github.MarkovianProtocol/provenance` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/io.github.MarkovianProtocol/provenance
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/io.github.MarkovianProtocol/provenance
- Version: 0.2.0 (active)
- Publisher: io.github.MarkovianProtocol (GitHub account)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Repository: https://github.com/MarkovianProtocol/markovian-protocol
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T18:17:47.175Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Stamp or notarize data into a public witnessed transparency log. Proves timing, not truth.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T19:03:55.114Z over streamable-http.

**4 tools: 4 change things.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 4 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 0 | allow |

## Exfil surface

No private-data -> untrusted-input -> outbound path in this server alone: no tool is tagged private-data or outbound.

| Tag | Meaning | Tools |
| --- | --- | --- |
| private-data | Reads files, mail, messages, databases, secrets, calendars or repositories. | none |
| untrusted-input | Brings in text someone else can write: web pages, inbound email, messages, issues and comments. | `mcp__provenance__markovian_notarize` `mcp__provenance__markovian_stamp` `mcp__provenance__markovian_trace` `mcp__provenance__markovian_verify` |
| outbound | Can carry data to people or systems: it sends, posts or publishes, or takes a recipient, channel or URL. | none |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Changes things (4)

Creates or changes something that can be changed back. Claude Code: ask.

### `markovian_notarize`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Notarize any file or hash into a public transparency log cosigned by 7 witnesses from 6 operators and anchored to Bitcoin. Hash-only: pass a sha256 hex string, or with the local stdio server a file path (hashed on your machine; the file never leaves it) — only 32 bytes reach the log. Returns a receipt with the leaf index, inclusion-proof URL, an offline c2sp.org/tlog-proof bundle URL, and the witness trust policy. Proves the hash existed no later than the covering checkpoint, in a single history everyone sees identically; does NOT prove authorship or that the content is true. Rate-limited (10/hour). Typical use: notarize an output the moment it is produced, keep the file, hand anyone the proof URL.
```

### `markovian_stamp`

- The description's first verb is "commit": a word for a change.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Commit any data (an AI output, a decision, a record) into a public, witnessed transparency log and get back a verifiable, tamper-evident provenance stamp (canonical markovian-provenance/v1). It proves the data existed and was committed at this time; it does NOT assert the data is correct (provenance, not truth). No wallet, account, or funding is required, the first stamp just works, and only the SHA-256 hash of your data is sent to the public API, the raw data is never stored. The returned merkle_root is the handle: save it, then call markovian_verify(merkle_root) to prove integrity later, or pass prior stamps in derived_from to build a lineage you can walk with markovian_trace. Typical use: stamp an agent output the moment it is produced, so anyone can later confirm it was not altered.
```

### `markovian_trace`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Walk and verify a stamp's full provenance lineage by merkle_root. Use this when a stamp was created with derived_from links, to map what an output was built from. Returns a MAP of the graph (not a yes/no verdict): each node carries hash_binds and anchored, each edge carries edge_verified, and `valid` is true only if every node and edge checks out. A node whose payload was never published is an unresolved frontier (resolved:false). Read-only. Provenance, not truth.
```

### `markovian_verify`

- Nothing in its name or description says what it does, so it is counted as a write.
- The server marks it read-only (readOnlyHint: true), but an annotation never lowers a class.
- Tag untrusted-input: The server marks it openWorldHint: true: it reaches things outside the server's own data.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Look up a Markovian stamp by its merkle_root against the public verifier, with no key or account. verified:true means the stamp record exists and the response echoes its committed data_hash — recompute your content's SHA-256 and compare it to that data_hash yourself to confirm the content is unaltered. An unknown merkle_root returns verified:false. The trust-nobody path is the stamp's witnessed transparency-log leaf (log_index / inclusion URL from markovian_stamp): its inclusion proof verifies against the witnessed log head with no trust in this endpoint. Read-only; anyone can run it, including a party who does not trust the stamper.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `provenance`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [],
    "ask": [
      "mcp__provenance__markovian_notarize",
      "mcp__provenance__markovian_stamp",
      "mcp__provenance__markovian_verify",
      "mcp__provenance__markovian_trace"
    ],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```

Capability tags behind the rules (a read tagged outbound is asked about):

- `mcp__provenance__markovian_notarize`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__provenance__markovian_stamp`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__provenance__markovian_verify`: untrusted-input
- `mcp__provenance__markovian_trace`: untrusted-input

## Remote posture

What an anonymous client saw at the remote endpoint, last 2026-10-22T14:53:22.822Z, unchanged since 2026-10-22T14:53:22.822Z. No credentials were sent and no tool was called. Values are shown as the endpoint returned them. Method: https://anlyon.dev/methodology#remote-posture

| Fact | Observed |
| --- | --- |
| Reachable | `yes` |
| HTTP status of an anonymous initialize | `200` |
| tools/list served without credentials | `yes` |
| Tools that change things, listed without credentials | `4` |
| Protocol version | `2025-06-18` |
| WWW-Authenticate on 401 | `not observed` |
| resource_metadata in WWW-Authenticate | `none` |
| RFC 9728 protected resource metadata | `none` |
| Authorization servers | `none` |
| Legacy HTTP+SSE transport | `no` |
| Dynamic client registration | `not observed` |
| Client ID metadata documents | `not observed` |

- **warn** Tools that change things, listed to anyone ([unauth-remote-writes](https://anlyon.dev/methodology#unauth-remote-writes))

```untrusted-server-text
The endpoint served tools/list without credentials, and the list has 4 tools that change things (4 write). Whether a call also works without credentials was not tested: tools are never called.

https://api.markovianprotocol.com/mcp/: tools/list returned 4 tools to an anonymous client, including markovian_notarize (write), markovian_stamp (write), markovian_verify (write), markovian_trace (write)
```