# pasr-mcp
> Provenance-aware span recall: a zero-setup context-broker MCP for coding and document agents.
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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet
## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/pasr-mcp/claim
## Declared
- publisher: Apheironn
- homepage: https://github.com/Apheironn/pasr
- repository: https://github.com/Apheironn/pasr
- version: 0.2.1
- protocols: mcp
- tags: ai-agent, claude, code-search, coding-agent, context, context-engineering, cursor, llm, mcp, mcp-server, model-context-protocol, provenance, rag, repo-map, retrieval, token-budget, tree-sitter
- endpoints:
- package_pypi: pypi:pasr-mcp
### Description (declared)
# PASR
**Provenance-Aware Span Recall** — a zero-setup context broker your coding agent calls
as an MCP tool. It hands the model the *few* lines that answer the question, each with a
`file:line` and the reason it was picked — and tells the agent when it asked the wrong
tool.
[](https://pypi.org/project/pasr-mcp/)
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## The problem
An agent working in a real repo has two bad options: read whole files and burn its
context window on code that never mattered, or grep-and-guess and miss the file that
held the answer. Either way, **you cannot see what it looked at** — no record, no line
numbers, no reason.
## What PASR does
### Budgeted
You set a token ceiling; PASR never returns more, and it packs whole spans — never a
truncated function. If the full file set already fits, you get it back unchanged.
### Traceable
Every span carries `file:line`, a token count, its retrieval score, and *why* it was
kept (`bm25`, `symbol`, `active_window`, …). A byte-stable receipt — of what was kept
*and* what was dropped — lands on disk for every call.