Proposal: signed source-rights observations as external provenance evidence #473

Your project already works with provenance/lineage or governed data context. A complementary evidence class for AI workflows is what machine-readable AI-use / source-rights declaration a third-party public source exposed when it entered the workflow.

AcqPath provides signed timestamped observations for a public resource + intended purpose (AI input, indexing, training or search).

It does not grant licences, determine ownership, prove downstream use, bypass access controls, or treat UNKNOWN as permission.

Potential provider-neutral integration:

• identify external source and intended use
• resolve/store declaration state, observed_at, evidence ID/hash and verification state
• keep the downstream policy/legal decision separate
• optionally revalidate later to detect declaration drift

MCP reference: https://api.getacqpath.com/mcp

Would this fit as optional external provenance/evidence metadata in smaramwbc/statewave?