A side-by-side look at the AnchorRegistry and Elucora Evidence API MCP servers: transport, auth, tools, quality signals, and the config to install either one in Claude, Cursor, Windsurf or VS Code.
Verdict: choose AnchorRegistry for cryptography work over a hosted endpoint; choose Elucora Evidence API for cryptography over a hosted endpoint. You can also run both side by side in one mcpServers block.
ar_verify_arid, ar_verify_by_hash, ar_resolve_tree.elucora_verify, elucora_get_receipt, elucora_capture.Rows where the two servers differ are marked.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Category | Cryptography | Cryptography |
| Quality signal | 47/100 · Fair | 48/100 · Fair |
| Install command | Confirmed | Confirmed |
| Transport | Remote HTTP/SSE | Remote HTTP/SSE |
| Auth | Not declared | Not declared |
| Pricing | Not declared | Not declared |
| Required env vars | None listed | None listed |
| Verified owner | Community listing | Community listing |
| GitHub stars | 0 | 0 |
| Directory activity | 1 views 0 installs 0 upvotes | 2 views 0 installs 0 upvotes |
| Tools | 3 | 4 |
| Full listing | View AnchorRegistry | View Elucora Evidence API |
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 has been sealed, retracted, voided, or affirmed. Free, public, no auth required.ar_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.ar_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 anchored as the root with its training dataset and model weights as children.elucora_verifyChecks whether a receipt is genuine and unaltered, and what source bytes it covers.elucora_get_receiptReads a receipt: source, sealed passage, signature status, Bitcoin anchor state.elucora_captureFetches a public HTTP(S) source, preserves the original bytes, optionally pins an exact quote or JSON Pointer, and returns a signed receipt. Consumes quota and contacts the source.elucora_attestSeals a SHA-256 hash the caller already holds, for content with no URL. Proves the content existed then and has not changed since — not where it came from. Consumes quota.Paste either block (or both) into your client config, e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json. We only show a config when the install command is confirmed.
{
"mcpServers": {
"anchorregistry": {
"url": "https://mcp.anchorregistry.ai/mcp"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"elucora-evidence-api-2": {
"url": "https://elucora.com/mcp"
}
}
}