# Provenance Edge Audit - Provenanc

> Provenance Edge Audit - Provenanc is a paid API for AI agents from www.mahastrategies.com, paid per call via x402, $0.045307/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-16).

Binds a declared provenance edge to pinned endpoints and owner/subject frames, returning typed audit results for caller-supplied artifact and dataset provenance manifests.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://www.mahastrategies.com/api/v1/verify/provenance-manifests/provenance-edge-audit?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.045307/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/provenance-edge-audit-provenanc-ca4fc967
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_20Xp-3ZoX26Vd5eVcSCLF

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability provenance-edge-audit-provenanc-ca4fc967 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Audit my provenance manifest edges — I have up to 10 edges and 10 nodes, all public data and strictly nonpersonal metadata — and tell me if any edges fail to bind to their pinned endpoints or if there are cycles or digest mismatches.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to audit the structural integrity of provenance edge declarations in a manifest — specifically to confirm that edges bind correctly to pinned endpoints and owner/subject frames, and to detect unresolved targets, digest mismatches, or cycles. It is appropriate for offline, typed, nonpersonal metadata only and does not perform signature verification, build reproduction, or origin proofs. Best suited for data governance pipelines, research data auditing, and artifact lineage checking where lightweight structural validation of provenance graphs is required.

## Known failure modes

- Unresolved target nodes flagged as negative evidence rather than error
- Wrong digest on a pinned endpoint returns negative binding result
- Cyclic edge declarations produce cycle-detection negative evidence
- Exceeding 32 edges or 32 nodes returns validation error
- Providing nonpersonalMetadata as false rejected by schema (const:true)
- Invalid dataClass value outside public/synthetic enum returns schema error

## How this service works

Bind a declared edge to both pinned endpoints and the exact owner/subject frame. Unresolved targets, wrong digests and cycles remain negative evidence, not independent provenance verification for caller-supplied artifact and dataset provenance manifests. No source download, build reproduction, signature verification, proof of origin, causality or scientific validity. Offline typed nonpersonal metadata only. Result retention: 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata: 90 days.

## Output

Returns typed audit results indicating whether each declared provenance edge successfully binds to both pinned endpoints and the exact owner/subject frame. Unresolved targets, wrong digests, and cycles are flagged as negative evidence. Result data is retained for 24 hours; minimal receipt metadata is retained for 90 days. No source download, build reproduction, signature verification, or proof of origin is performed.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "edges": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 32,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "nodes": {
   "type": "array",
   "maxItems": 32,
   "minItems": 1
  },
  "dataClass": {
   "enum": [
    "public",
    "synthetic"
   ],
   "type": "string"
  },
  "nonpersonalMetadata": {
   "type": "boolean",
   "const": true
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/provenance-edge-audit-provenanc-ca4fc967/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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