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Provenance

readProvenance

Read Provenance

readProvenance: the signed receipts behind one money record, newest first.

read

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "show the receipt for this payment", and it calls readProvenance.

Example call

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

{
  "arguments": {
    "thing": {}
  },
  "name": "readProvenance"
}

Arguments

• exportbooleanoptionaltrue to include the receipt JSON an owner downloads for offline verification.
• thingobjectrequiredNo description is declared in the tool schema.

Returns

Action: returns each attestation's content hash, signer (platform), key id, recorded and signed times, schema id and status (pending_signature while the platform key is not set, pending once signed,…

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• show the receipt for this payment
• is this refund signed
• export the proof for this gift card
• readProvenance

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• verifyProvenance
• listPayments
• listGiftCards

Questions

• What does readProvenance do?

  readProvenance: the signed receipts behind one money record, newest first. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use readProvenance 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 "show the receipt for this payment", and it calls readProvenance.

• Is readProvenance safe to let an AI call?

  readProvenance 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.