# travis234-evidence-mcp

> Optional local evidence research MCP server for Travis234.

Record `travis234-evidence-mcp` (mcp_server) · JSON: https://wellknown.network/agents/travis234-evidence-mcp/record.json · HTML: https://wellknown.network/agents/travis234-evidence-mcp
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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/travis234-evidence-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.0
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:travis234-evidence-mcp

### Description (declared)

# Travis234 Evidence MCP

`travis234-evidence-mcp` is the optional local evidence research engine for Travis234.
It can find bounded source candidates, capture selected public pages, extract typed facts,
retain disagreements, and answer with durable provenance. Discovery is convenient source
selection; captured and queried page evidence is the factual record.

## What discovery does

When a user asks a research question without links, the `discover` operation sends the
bounded search query to the default hosted Exa MCP search service or an operator-selected
Brave Search/public SearXNG route. It returns at most ten admitted candidates with opaque
candidate IDs, URL, host, title, snippet, source hint, provider name, and deterministic
rank. Every candidate is explicitly marked `verified=false`.

Discovery removes common tracking parameters, checks each candidate URL with the same
public-address policy used by acquisition, deduplicates equivalent results, and prefers a
bounded mix of sources. It does not fetch every search result, crawl a domain, or turn a
snippet into a claim. The model selects candidate IDs and passes them to `start`; only
those selected pages enter the evidence pipeline.

## Discovery is not evidence

Search titles, snippets, ranks, and source hints are unverified source-selection clues.
They can help choose pages, but they cannot support a final factual answer. A qualified
`query` row comes from a captured page and carries the source URL, capture time, SHA-256
content identity, and exact locator.

Use this boundary in every answer:

- candidate metadata explains why a source was selected;
- `status` explains whether capture completed, was partial, failed, or was cancelled;
- `query` supplies the source-qualified facts and conflicts used in chat;
- `export` creates a durable report while returning receipt metadata only to Travis.

This release does not qualify community sentiment or scholarly conclusions. Those need
their own source policies, sampli…

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- data.web-search (0.814, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/travis234-evidence-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T14:23:12.901Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/travis234-evidence-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/travis234-evidence-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:travis234-evidence-mcp