etch-record 0.5.0

CLI helper: sign any event into your Etch audit chain from the command line.

etch-record

Small CLI helper. Signs any event into your Etch audit chain from the command line.

Built for the marketing-agent workflow: every research call, draft generation, review decision, and outreach send emits a signed event. Also usable standalone for any local activity you want notarized.

Latest: v0.2.0 — Wave 1 #1 governance flags (--policy-hash, --authority-file, --assumptions-file, --uncertainty, --uncertainty-file, --invalidation-file) attach a signed governance sub-record on the Etch parallel chain. See CHANGELOG.md.

Install

pip install etch-record

Or from a local checkout during development:

cd ~/etch-marketing/etch-record
pip install -e .

Configure

Set three env vars in your shell rc (~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc):

export ETCH_PROJECT_ID="your_project_id"
export ETCH_APP_TOKEN="wm_your_app_token"
export ETCH_BASE_URL="https://etch.systems"   # default; override for local dev

Get project_id + app_token from your Etch signup provisioning page. ETCH_BASE_URL defaults to https://etch.systems if unset.

Use

# Simple event
etch-record "posted X thread about Etch's audit chain"

# With tags + evidence
etch-record "researched contact via Gemini" \
  --tags research,marketing \
  --evidence-json '{"contact":"...","dossier_lines":247}'

# Load evidence from a file
etch-record "drafted 3 message variants" \
  --tags draft,claude \
  --evidence-file drafts_evidence.json

# Group events under a session (default = today's ISO date)
etch-record "approved draft v2" --session-id outreach-2026-07-26 --tags review,approved

# Print what would be sent without hitting the API
etch-record "dry run test" --dry-run

Event shape

Every call becomes a signed record_event MCP tool call on your Etch chain:

• event_type: "tool_call" (only enum value that works for arbitrary marketing events)
• session_id: --session-id OR auto-generated as etch-record-YYYY-MM-DD
• entities: derived from --tags
• description: your quoted string (positional arg)
• evidence: from --evidence-json or --evidence-file
• success: true unless --failed

The Etch server appends to the SHA-256 Merkle chain, closes epochs at threshold (default 1024 events), hybrid-signs (Ed25519 + SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f), and optionally anchors to Sigstore Rekor + Bitcoin OpenTimestamps.

Verify

Every event is verifiable offline forever:

etch-verify \
  --base-url https://etch.systems \
  --project-id your_project_id

Governance metadata (Wave 1 #1, v0.2.0)

Attach a signed governance sub-record to any event. Any of the five flags below triggers a second call to POST /v1/etch-chain/governance-record on your Etch base URL, which hashes the governance object canonically and signs it into the Etch parallel chain.

etch-record "KYC decision on customer ABC" \
  --tags kyc,fintech,decision \
  --policy-hash sha256:9f8c... \
  --authority-file authority.json \
  --uncertainty '0.87:hash-lookup-match-rate' \
  --invalidation-file invalidation_conditions.json

authority.json:

{
  "identity": "[e-mail]",
  "scope": ["fintech-kyc-decisions"],
  "expires_at": "2026-12-31T23:59:59Z"
}

invalidation_conditions.json:

[
  {"if": "SOP hash changes", "then": "re-approve required"}
]

Assumptions file uses the same shape:

[
  {"claim": "SOP v3.2 is current", "source_ref": "doc_hash:xyz"}
]

Output when both calls succeed:

OK  session=etch-record-2026-08-01  event_id=abc-def-123
OK  governance_seq=1  governance_hash=sha256:xyz...

The base event was recorded via the OSS chain; the governance sub-record was signed into the Etch parallel chain and cross-references the event by ID. Both chains verify offline via etch-verify (OSS) and etch-chain-verify (Etch).

Exit codes

• 0 success (including two-call success when governance flags were set)
• 1 config error (missing env vars)
• 2 MCP record_event error
• 3 unexpected exception
• 4 rate limit (client-side sliding window)
• 5 governance sub-record failed — the base event was recorded successfully; use the printed event_id to retry the governance call