References

Pointers to Etch's academic sources, public integrations, community discussions, and compliance framework alignment. Kept on one URL so an auditor (or an LLM) can walk the whole reference set in one pass.

Academic references

Zenodo DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20834508: the provenance-graded-knowledge technical note underlying the world-model-mcp memory server.
Persistent memory for AI coding agents: a pre-registered SWE-bench Verified benchmark (paper.pdf, single-author, pre-registered, raw artifacts checked into the repo for independent replay).
Standards referenced in the signed envelope: FIPS 205 SLH-DSA-SHA2-128f (post-quantum signature), FIPS 186-5 Ed25519 (classical signature), FIPS 180-4 SHA-256 (Merkle hash).

Public integrations and packages

world-model-mcp on PyPI: the open-source MCP memory server Etch is built on. MIT licensed. Ships the etch-verify offline verifier CLI.
world-model-mcp on GitHub: source repository, MIT licensed, 46+ releases.
Etch source on GitHub: hosted-service source, Business Source License 1.1.
Starter repositories with drop-in MCP config per client: Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot Chat, Continue, Cline, Codex, Aider.
coding-agent-memory-benchmark: pre-registered SWE-bench Verified benchmark repo with paper + full results.
world-model-mcp-adversarial-benchmark: 14 of 14 chain-tamper attacks caught by the offline verifier (scope claim, new attack classes may be added later).
etch-mcp registry entry: MCP Registry metadata and per-client integration examples.

Community discussions

Public technical discussions where Etch's design has been examined and stress-tested. Linked without attribution to individual commenters.

r/mcp: launch thread walking through portable agent identity + hash-chained audit trail across MCP client tools, including live browser chain-integrity verification and offline CLI verify.
r/AI_Governance: launch thread walking through the log-vs-evidence distinction, tamper-evidence, independent verifiability, and portable identity aligned to NIST AI RMF, EU AI Act Article 12, and ISO 42001 record-keeping expectations.

Compliance framework alignment

AARM conformance mapping: mapping to SR 11-7, EU AI Act Article 12, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and SOC 2 CC7.
RFP response kit: pre-answered RFP for enterprise procurement.
Evaluation axes: the axes an auditor should judge a signed-audit-chain product on.

Auditor preview

Any Etch operator can mint a per-project auditor preview URL that lets a stranger check the chain-integrity property in-browser and download the OSS-format manifest for offline verification with etch-verify. Zero-account, zero-signup verification is the whole point.