Hive Spire

A record a party keeps about itself is not evidence; it is a claim. SPIRE issues an independent, tamper-evident, offline-verifiable attestation of what an AI agent actually did.

SPIRE is the attestation surface of the AFiR Protection Program from Hive Civilization. Every attestation is signed with ML-DSA-65 (NIST FIPS 204) — a post-quantum signature — by the Hive typed signer, and is verifiable offline with the returned envelope. No secret is needed to verify; anyone can check an attestation against the published public key.

Patent Pending. MIT licensed. Build tier (first 1M attestations) free; verify is always free.

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Tools

Tool	What it seals	Pass
sign_mint	Constitutional agent-instance mint (Atom 1) — instance binding, granted authority, custody terms. No-self-attest custody, decaying authority, non-transferable binding.	mint: {instance_id, agent_ref, authority, granted_at, decay, custodian_ref}
sign_trajectory	Agent trajectory (Atom 2) — ordered causal edges, with a trajectory root distinct from the content root. Proves the path the agent took, not just its outputs.	trajectory: {run_id, agent_ref, edges:[{from, to, seq, cause}]}
sign_coherence	Coherence attestation (Atom 3, lead claim) — aggregate trajectory-drift. Attests coherence (stayed within mandate), not correctness; supports verifier-side correctness-refusal.	coherence: {run_id, agent_ref, drift_score, window, mandate_ref}
verify_attestation	Verify any signed SPIRE attestation offline. Returns {valid, reasons[], scheme, ...}. Always free.	attestation: the full object returned by any sign tool (carries envelope + fragments_canon)
get_pubkey	The ML-DSA-65 (FIPS 204) public key + issuer DID + spec, for offline verification. Free.	—

Each sign tool returns a signed afir.attestation object (the ML-DSA-65 envelope plus its canonical fragments_canon). Hand that whole object to verify_attestation (or to any offline ML-DSA-65 verifier with the published key) to independently confirm it.

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Endpoints

Method	Path	Purpose
GET	/health	Liveness
GET	/	Service descriptor + atom map
POST	/mcp	MCP JSON-RPC 2.0 (initialize, tools/list, tools/call, ping)
GET	/.well-known/mcp.json	MCP discovery manifest
GET	/.well-known/agent.json	A2A agent card

Transport: Streamable-HTTP. Protocol: MCP 2024-11-05. Inbound only — the server never holds custody; it relays typed fragments to the Hive signer and returns the signed envelope.

Upstream signer: https://hive-typed-signer.onrender.com (override with HIVE_SIGNER_URL).

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Connect

Hosted (recommended): point your MCP client at

https://hive-mcp-spire.onrender.com/mcp

Smithery: smithery.ai/new?repo=srotzin/hive-mcp-spire

Local:

git clone https://github.com/srotzin/hive-mcp-spire.git
cd hive-mcp-spire
npm install
node server.js     # listens on :3000

Quick check:

curl -s http://localhost:3000/health
curl -s -X POST http://localhost:3000/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

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Environment

Var	Default	Purpose
PORT	3000	Listen port
ENABLE	true	Set false for a dormant health-only instance
HIVE_SIGNER_URL	https://hive-typed-signer.onrender.com	Upstream typed signer

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Why this exists

Self-reported logs are a claim. When an AI agent acts — mints an instance, takes a path, stays within a mandate — the counterparty needs proof that does not depend on trusting the actor's own records. SPIRE binds the exact state into a post-quantum signature that anyone can verify offline, forever, without phoning home.

Part of the Hive Civilization agent economy. © 2026 Steve Rotzin / Hive Civilization. MIT.