A thin HTTP proxy that connects Claude to AnchorRegistry's on-chain provenance API. You get three read-only tools: resolve an AR-ID to its full provenance record, look up artifacts by SHA-256 manifest hash, or pull an entire provenance tree. No auth required, no state held between calls. It's a direct passthrough to api.anchorregistry.ai, so you're querying the live registry without credentials or logging. Future versions will add balance checks and artifact registration once MCP credential handling stabilizes across clients. Deployed on Cloudflare Workers and available via streamable-http or SSE at mcp.anchorregistry.ai.
Public tool metadata for what this MCP can expose to an agent.
ar_verify_aridResolve an AnchorRegistry AR-ID to its full provenance record. Use this when you encounter an SPDX-Anchor or DAPX-Anchor tag (e.g. in a README, paper, model card, or website) and need to confirm what the artifact is, who anchored it, when, what type it is, and whether the tree...1 paramsResolve an AnchorRegistry AR-ID to its full provenance record. Use this when you encounter an SPDX-Anchor or DAPX-Anchor tag (e.g. in a README, paper, model card, or website) and need to confirm what the artifact is, who anchored it, when, what type it is, and whether the tree...
ar_idstringar_verify_by_hashResolve an artifact by its SHA-256 manifest hash. Use this when you have the artifact itself but no AR-ID, and want to check whether it has been anchored. Returns the AR-ID and full provenance record if found, or a clear "not anchored" response otherwise.1 paramsResolve an artifact by its SHA-256 manifest hash. Use this when you have the artifact itself but no AR-ID, and want to check whether it has been anchored. Returns the AR-ID and full provenance record if found, or a clear "not anchored" response otherwise.
manifest_hashstringar_resolve_treeResolve the full provenance tree for an AR-ID. Returns every anchor in the tree (root + all descendants) with their relationships, types, manifest hashes, and timestamps. Use this when you need to understand a multi-artifact provenance chain — for example, a research paper anc...1 paramsResolve the full provenance tree for an AR-ID. Returns every anchor in the tree (root + all descendants) with their relationships, types, manifest hashes, and timestamps. Use this when you need to understand a multi-artifact provenance chain — for example, a research paper anc...
ar_idstringThe AnchorRegistry MCP server. Resolve any AR-ID, manifest hash, or provenance tree from any MCP-compatible AI client.
Endpoint: https://mcp.anchorregistry.ai/mcp
Settings → Integrations → Add server.
URL: https://mcp.anchorregistry.ai/mcp
claude mcp add --transport http anchorregistry https://mcp.anchorregistry.ai/mcp
Settings → MCP → Add new MCP server.
Name: anchorregistry · Type: http · URL: https://mcp.anchorregistry.ai/mcp
ar_verify_aridResolves an AR-ID to its full provenance record.
"What's at AR-2026-qnPOJ1z?"
ar_verify_by_hashResolves an artifact by SHA-256 manifest hash.
ar_resolve_treeReturns the full provenance tree for any AR-ID.
ar-mcp is a thin proxy. Every tool call hits api.anchorregistry.ai
and returns the JSON unchanged. No data is logged, no credentials are
stored, no state is held between requests.
The full surface is documented at:
v0.2 will add ar_check_balance and ar_register_artifact once the MCP
credential-handling pattern stabilizes across clients. ar_seal_tree is
deferred indefinitely (irreversible action; needs robust user-confirmation
primitives the protocol does not yet provide). The deferred tools are
fully implemented and live in src/future-tools.ts —
enabling them is a one-line flip per tool.
npm install
npm test # vitest, hits live api.anchorregistry.ai
npm run type-check
npm run dev # wrangler dev — http://localhost:8787
npm run deploy # wrangler deploy
Verify locally with the MCP inspector:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector http://localhost:8787/mcp
MIT.