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Provenance

verifyProvenance

Verify Provenance

verifyProvenance: checks one money receipt end to end.

read

Ask Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI connected to The Cloud "verify this receipt", and it calls verifyProvenance.

Example call

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

{
  "arguments": {},
  "name": "verifyProvenance"
}

Arguments

• attestationIdstringoptionalA specific attestation id from readProvenance.
• thingobjectoptionalNo description is declared in the tool schema.

Returns

Returns verified true or false and the reason: verified, not_found, no_attestation, not_signed (the platform key is not set yet), hash_mismatch (a permanent field changed after signing),…

Declared limits

• attestationId: minimum length 1

Ask for it

The Cloud routes these requests to this verb.

• verify this receipt
• has this payment been tampered with
• prove this refund
• verifyProvenance

Pair it with

The verbs that finish the job.

• readProvenance

Questions

• What does verifyProvenance do?

  verifyProvenance: checks one money receipt end to end. It is one of the tools The Cloud MCP server gives every connected AI.

• How do I use verifyProvenance 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 "verify this receipt", and it calls verifyProvenance.

• Is verifyProvenance safe to let an AI call?

  verifyProvenance 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.