Markovian

Bitcoin-anchored, independently verifiable provenance for AI outputs, exposed as MCP tools.

Trust the emitter? No. Prove the emitter. Commit an output to the Markovian chain the moment it is produced, and anyone can later confirm it existed then and has not been altered since, without trusting you, us, or any operator.

A stamp proves provenance, not truth. It proves the data was committed at a time. It does not assert the data is correct.

Two doors, one server

This package is the stdio door. The hosted HTTP door is the same server, with the same tool names, the same parameters and the same returned objects:

https://api.markovianprotocol.com/mcp/

Code written against one works unchanged against the other. Pick a transport, not a semantics. (The trailing slash matters: /mcp returns a redirect that some clients will not follow.)

Tools

• markovian_stamp(data, wallet?, label?, derived_from?) — commit data to the Markovian chain and get back a verifiable, tamper-evident stamp (markovian-provenance/v1). Only the SHA-256 of your data is sent; the raw data is never stored. No wallet or account is needed, the first stamp just works. The returned merkle_root is the handle.
• markovian_verify(merkle_root) — check a stamp against the public verifier. No key, no account. An unknown or edited root returns verified: false. Anyone can run it, including a party who does not trust the stamper.
• markovian_trace(merkle_root) — walk a stamp's derived_from lineage. Returns a map of the graph, not a verdict: every node carries hash_binds and anchored, every edge carries edge_verified, and valid is true only if all of them check out.

Lineage links are bound inside the committed bytes, so an edge cannot be added or removed after the fact without changing the root.

Install

pip install markovian-mcp

Configure (Claude Desktop / Cursor / Claude Code)

Local, over stdio:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markovian": {
      "command": "markovian-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Or point at the hosted server instead, with no install:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markovian": {
      "url": "https://api.markovianprotocol.com/mcp/"
    }
  }
}

Verify without trusting us

Verification is a plain public GET. Nothing in it depends on this package, this server, or our good behaviour:

curl https://api.markovianprotocol.com/verify/<merkle_root>

Change one byte of the stamped data and the root no longer matches. That is the whole guarantee, and it is checkable by someone who thinks we are lying.

More at markovianprotocol.com.

Changelog

0.2.0 — breaking. The tools now speak to the live chain and match the hosted server exactly. Previously this package shipped local-only hash helpers whose names collided with the hosted server's but whose signatures and semantics did not (markovian_stamp(content) returning a locally computed digest, versus markovian_stamp(data) returning a chain commitment). An agent could not move between the two. There is now one set of tools with one meaning. The old canonicalization field also claimed RFC 8785 (JCS) while implementing sorted-key json.dumps, which is not JCS; that claim is gone rather than restated.

Apache-2.0.