The full upstream README, mirrored here for reference. Install config, tool schemas, adoption signals, and an original overview live on the Kerne Honesty Index listing page.
Advertised versus realized yield for stablecoin vaults, as a Model Context Protocol server. Remote, no key, no account, nothing to install.
Streamable HTTP. Stateless. Free, and it stays free: the numbers behind it are already served without a key at kerne.fi/api/honesty-index, and putting them behind one would defeat the argument the board is making.
Claude Code:
Anything that reads a config file:
Registry name: io.github.kerne-protocol/honesty-index
The Kerne Honesty Index is an hourly, signed board comparing what synthetic and yield-bearing dollars advertise against what their holders actually realized, computed from ERC-4626 share price growth on chain over a thirty day window. Kerne Protocol publishes it, is measured on it, and lists its own row first by rule.
| Tool | What it returns |
|---|---|
list_rows | The roster: key, protocol, symbol, chain, contract address. Cheap. Call it first. |
get_board | Every row with its advertised figure, its realized figure, the stated gap, the delivery ratio, plus the board summary and the snapshot's provenance. |
get_row | One row with everything behind it: the verbatim advertised quote and the first-party page it was read from, the capture date, both block heights, both share prices, the arithmetic, and the exact eth_call payloads to reproduce it. |
get_methodology | The measurement, the comparability rules that decide when a gap may be stated at all, the ten day capture expiry, and what the board deliberately does not cover. |
get_corrections | The append-only log of every time the board changed something it had stated about a named company, with both values and the rule that stops a repeat. |
get_right_of_reply | The free, permanent, unedited reply slot every measured protocol has on its own row, its terms, and every reply received. |
One resource, kerne://honesty-index/snapshot, is the raw signed snapshot
including the canonical payload, its sha256 attestation hash and the EIP-191
signature over it.
These are in the server's instructions too, because getting them wrong
produces a confident false statement about a named company.
status field beside the figure.The board scores one axis. It is not an audit, not a rating, not a solvency opinion, and it says nothing about the hedge or the reserves of any protocol on it, including Kerne's.
Every figure it serves is re-derivable from public chain data by a program that shares no code with the one that produced it:
That is a second implementation with its own decoder, its own arithmetic, and keccak256 and secp256k1 written from scratch rather than taken from a library. It re-reads every row at the block heights the signed snapshot names and prints PASS or FAIL. Method, tolerances and what happens if you get a different answer: kerne.fi/honesty-index/reproduce.
This file describes a live server, and a live server can quietly stop matching its documentation. So check it:
It runs the real handshake against the real endpoint, lists what is actually offered, makes one real call, and exits non-zero if the live tool list and the table above have drifted apart in either direction. No dependencies, Node 20 or later. It runs in CI here on a schedule for the same reason.
Every protocol this board publishes a number about has a free, permanent, unedited reply slot on its own row. Published verbatim, never edited, never removed, published whether or not it agrees with us, and we never answer inside one. Nothing is charged for it and no commercial conversation is a condition of it. Terms and form: kerne.fi/honesty-index/reproduce#right-of-reply.
server.json is the registry descriptor. probe.mjs is the check above. The
server itself is a route on kerne.fi rather than a package here, because it is a
remote server: there is nothing for you to run, and a copy of the handler in this
repository would be a second thing to keep in step with the first.
MIT licensed.