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Contribution Ledger

getLineage

Get Lineage

Walk a contribution's lineage: its full ancestry (what it derived from) and descendants (what derived from it).

read

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "trace the lineage", and it calls getLineage.

Example call

The MCP tools/call params, with the required arguments only.

{
  "arguments": {
    "contributionId": "<contributionId>"
  },
  "name": "getLineage"
}

Arguments

• contributionIdstringrequiredThe contribution id to walk from.

Returns

The registry does not declare a return shape.

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• trace the lineage
• where did this come from
• what built on this

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• registerContribution
• getContribution

Questions

• What does getLineage do?

  Walk a contribution's lineage: its full ancestry (what it derived from) and descendants (what derived from it). It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use getLineage from Claude or ChatGPT?

  Connect your AI to The Cloud at https://mcp.thecloud.so/mcp and sign in once. Then ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "trace the lineage", and it calls getLineage.

• Is getLineage safe to let an AI call?

  getLineage is read-only: it changes nothing.

Connect

One endpoint gives your AI this tool and every other one: connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Gemini, read what The Cloud is, or see pricing.