Stamp

The concierge MCP for agentic workflows: the small, high-frequency tools agents reach for constantly -- NTP time and clock drift, UUIDs, diffs, safe arithmetic, and tamper-evident attestation -- behind one endpoint.

A single NTP query tells you where your clock is right now. Drift history tells you where it is going: a clock that is consistently 200 ms fast and accelerating is a different problem from one that is stable at 200 ms fast. get_time takes the measurement; every call appends to a local log; get_drift reads the log and reports the trend.

Hosted endpoint (no sign-in, public): https://stamp-mcp.terradev.cloud/mcp

PyPI: pip install stamp-mcp  |  License: Apache 2.0

Quick start

Remote (streamable HTTP — no install needed)

Add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stamp": {
      "url": "https://stamp-mcp.terradev.cloud/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Local (stdio)

pip install stamp-mcp

Claude Desktop (~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "stamp": {
      "command": "stamp-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Restart Claude Desktop, then ask it "what tools do you have?" — get_time should appear. If it doesn't, check ~/Library/Logs/Claude/mcp*.log.

Tools

• get_time — one NTP query: UTC time, this clock's offset in ms, network delay, stratum. Appends the sample to the drift log. Optional: server (default time.cloudflare.com), timezone (IANA name for a local field, e.g. America/New_York).

• get_drift — analyzes the drift log: sample count, timespan, current/mean/stddev offset, drift rate in ms/day (least-squares fit), first-half vs. second-half rates, and a verdict: stable, drifting, or accelerating. Optional: server to filter by NTP host.

• generate_uuid — random UUIDv4s for records, sessions, and identifiers. Optional: count (1–1000, default 1).

• diff — unified diff between text_a and text_b, with added/removed line counts and an identical flag. Optional: context (lines of context, default 3).

• calculate — safe math evaluator: + - * / // % **, parentheses, functions (abs round min max sqrt floor ceil exp log log2 log10 pow sin cos tan), constants pi e tau inf. Parsed to an AST; only whitelisted nodes are evaluated — no eval(), no arbitrary code. Required: expression.

• attest — wrap any JSON payload in a tamper-evident record: a UUID, an NTP-verified timestamp (falls back to local clock; time_source says which), and a sha256 over the canonical record. Required: payload. Optional: server.

• verify — recompute an attested record's hash and compare. Returns valid plus a reason; any modified field — payload, timestamp, id — breaks it. Required: attested.

The drift log

Every get_time call appends one JSON line to ~/.stamp/drift.jsonl (override with STAMP_DRIFT_LOG). The file is capped at 10,000 samples. Call get_time periodically — a cron job, a heartbeat, or just asking Claude "check the clock" — and get_drift turns the accumulated offsets into a trend.

HTTP transport

stamp_mcp/http_server.py serves the same dispatch logic over async HTTP via aiohttp:

stamp-mcp-http                      # binds 127.0.0.1:8000
STAMP_PORT=9000 stamp-mcp-http      # custom port

TLS is terminated by a reverse proxy. The production layout is two containers on one AWS instance (docker-compose.yml):

• stamp — aiohttp server built from Dockerfile, internal network only. Drift log persists in the stamp-data volume.
• caddy — terminates HTTPS at stamp-mcp.terradev.cloud (automatic Let's Encrypt) and reverse-proxies to stamp:8000.

Concurrency is capped at 100 simultaneous POST /mcp requests via asyncio.Semaphore; /health and / are exempt.

Self-hosting

git clone https://github.com/theoddden/Stamp-MCP.git
cd Stamp-MCP
docker compose up -d --build

Caddy handles TLS automatically once your DNS A record points at the host. See deploy/Caddyfile and deploy/stamp-mcp.service (systemd, bare-metal alternative).

Deployment to AWS is automated via GitHub Actions (deploy.yml) using SSM Run Command — no inbound SSH needed.

Wire protocol

>>> {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{...}}
<<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"result":{"protocolVersion":"2024-11-05",...}}
>>> {"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"notifications/initialized"}
>>> {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/list"}
<<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"result":{"tools":[...]}}
>>> {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"get_time","arguments":{}}}
<<< {"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":3,"result":{"content":[{"type":"text","text":"..."}]}}

License

Copyright 2024 theoddden. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.

DISCLAIMER: Stamp queries public NTP infrastructure (Cloudflare, stratum 3) and is suitable for general agentic workflows. It is not intended for use cases requiring certified atomic precision, legal timestamp authority, or regulated audit trails. Use in production systems is at the implementer's risk.