Eleven agents. One primitive.
Knox is the evidentiary anchoring primitive. Agents 01–06 wrap the primitive for specific classes of verification — documents, registries, counter-parties, pledges, state changes, custody transfers. Agents 07–08 operate over the accumulated event stream itself — statistical detection of coordinated behavior, and pattern analysis of who is observing the record stream. Agent 09 turns the primitive into a drift record — SBOMs, supply-chain graphs, and exclusion query sets re-verified on a schedule, each change its own Bitcoin-anchored delta. Agent 10 dispatches a four-check parallel pre-screen across the checks a new applicant brings — authoritative where the agent owns the source, and explicit about delegation where another Knox surface owns it. Every output produced by every agent is Bitcoin-anchored and independently verifiable, forever, by anyone.
Document Verification
Every certificate, provable.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Read the document. Extract the structured verdict. Anchor the reasoning. Make every certificate independently provable forever."
Reads any document — assay reports, safe-keeping receipts, certificates of analysis, licenses, insurance certificates, bills of lading, invoices, contracts, government IDs. Extracts structured fields, compares against known templates, and anchors the verdict with its reasoning to Bitcoin. Every verification is independently auditable forever.
Registry Lookup
One API for the entire public registry surface.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Twelve public registries, one auditable lookup. Truth comes from the source — every adapter declares automated-vs-manual mode honestly."
Unified verification surface over twelve public-registry adapters: FDIC BankFind, SEC EDGAR, NY Department of State Active Corporations, Delaware Division of Corporations (API-key-gated), SAM.gov entity lookup (API-key-gated), OFAC Specially Designated Nationals list, FAA N-number aircraft registry, the London Bullion Market Association Good Delivery list, the OCC Financial Institution Directory, 50-state Secretary-of-State search, USDA hemp plans, and state cannabis regulators. Each adapter declares its own automated-vs-manual mode honestly; the fan-out endpoint dispatches to every applicable adapter for an entity kind in parallel and returns a multi-source attestation with a compositeStatus band (VERIFIED / PARTIAL / NOT_FOUND / FLAGGED / ERROR / EMPTY_APPLICABLE). Every report Bitcoin-anchored at source.
Counter-Party Verification
Both parties. One combined hash. One Bitcoin block.
Bureau of Operations
"Two signatures, one combined commitment, one Bitcoin block. He-said-she-said ends at the moment of countersignature."
Two-party atomic anchoring. Party A initiates and signs a payload; Party B countersigns; Knox computes the combined cryptographic commitment and anchors it externally. Court-admissible proof that both parties agreed to the exact same terms at known timestamps. Replaces the he-said-she-said of every bilateral agreement.
Lien / Pledge Registry
Every asset, pledged once.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Every asset pledged once, refused on the second pledge. Public verification before every collateralized transaction."
Records every asset pledged as collateral. Refuses re-pledge of an active asset. Public pledge-check endpoint — any counterparty, any auditor, any regulator can verify before acting. Eliminates the single most damaging fraud pattern in collateralized lending: the same asset pledged to three lenders at once.
Continuous Monitoring
State changes detected within the hour, anchored immediately.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Re-verify on every cron tick. Anchor every status change before the next round-trip. Convert one-time verification into evidentiary monitoring."
Registers any asset, license, or entity for continuous re-verification. Hourly cron re-checks the registry and anchors any status change — license lapse, entity suspension, certificate revocation — with the full before-and-after state. Converts one-time verification into evidentiary monitoring without polling.
Chain-of-Custody Transfer
Atomic handoffs. Walkable history forever.
Bureau of Operations
"No orphan custody, ever. Atomic handoff or atomic refusal. Refuse transfer of any asset under active pledge."
Atomic ownership transfer across verified parties. Current owner signs a release; recipient signs acceptance; the combined hash is anchored to Bitcoin as a single commitment. Full transfer history on-chain. Refuses transfer of any asset with an active pledge. No orphaned custody, ever.
Collusion Detection
Statistical signature that coincidence cannot explain.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Eight signals across time and infrastructure. Pattern strength only — never attribution, never content inspection."
Eight-signal statistical pattern analysis over anchored event streams. Detects signatures of coordinated behavior between parties that should be acting independently — shared timing, shared infrastructure fingerprints, correlated access rhythms, and six additional dimensions. Every detection report is itself Knox-anchored so the claim carries its own cryptographic timestamp. Metadata-only analysis — no content inspection, no attribution.
Surveillance / Observation
Who is watching your record stream, from where, with what rhythm.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Cryptographic record of when observation patterns first appeared. Self-anchored, hashed identifiers, never attribution."
Eight-signal pattern analysis over access metadata of the caller's own anchored event stream — source IPs, user agents, timing distributions, latency clusters, off-hours concentration, velocity spikes, user-agent uniformity, minute-of-hour clustering. Produces a banded Observation Index (quiet / routine / active / intense) and a self-anchored report that provides a cryptographic record of when specific observation patterns first appeared. Not surveillance identification or attribution; pattern strength only. Raw IPs and user agents are hashed to short tokens before any report is anchored.
Supply Chain Continuous Monitoring
Your SBOMs, suppliers, and sanctions posture — watched continuously. Every drift anchored.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"SBOMs, supplier graphs, and exclusion query sets re-verified on every cron tick. Every detected change is its own Bitcoin-anchored delta."
Register three kinds of baseline under your Knox API key: a software bill of materials (SBOM), a multi-tier supply-chain graph rooted at a vendor entity, or an OFAC/SAM/FAR exclusion-screen query set. The agent captures initial state, anchors it, and re-verifies on every cron tick. Each detected change — a new critical CVE on a tracked component, a new supplier appearing in the graph, a name matching an exclusion entry that did not previously match, an adversarial-jurisdiction addition — becomes its own Bitcoin-anchored delta. The analyze endpoint returns an eight-signal banded drift report (quiet / routine / active / critical) that is itself self-anchored. Not a risk determination; drift record only.
Applicant Compliance Batch
Four checks, parallel, anchored. Authoritative where it matters; honest delegation where it doesn't.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Authoritative where this agent owns the source. Honest delegation where another Knox surface owns it. Never an approval — always a dispatcher summary."
Parallel four-check pre-screen for an applicant business: Secretary-of-State deep-link resolution, NAICS code-vs-vertical alignment, plus advisory OFAC and Section 889 slots. The SoS and NAICS slots are authoritative output from this agent. The OFAC Specially Designated Nationals and FAR 52.204-25 / Section 889 slots carry advisory results only — every response explicitly names the authoritative delegate endpoint that performs the rostered, affidavit-backed screen. Overall band is a dispatcher summary (CLEAR / FLAGGED / PENDING), not an approval. Full batch Knox-anchored.
Counter-Party Dossier
Depth for one. Everything the firm can legitimately observe, composed and anchored.
Bureau of Capability Verification
"Depth-for-one. Compose signals the firm can legitimately observe. Reference for the caller's decision — never a compliance verdict."
Given a named counter-party, assembles a single Knox-anchored dossier that composes every live signal already produced by other agents — multi-authority registry presence, OFAC and FAR 889 exclusion status, collusion-pattern mentions, surveillance-pattern mentions, continuous-monitoring drift mentions — plus a honest name-match count per slice and a composite band (CLEAR / ADVISORY / ELEVATED / BLOCKED). Scope boundary: this is depth-for-one; cross-counterparty pattern analysis is Agent #7 Collusion. Output is a shared reference for the caller's own decision, never a compliance verdict.
Bureaus, Charters, Event Taxonomy
Every agent above carries a bureau assignment, a sworn charter excerpt, and a list of the canonical Knox event types it emits to the chain. The bureau model — Bureau of Capability Verification (BCV) for verifiers and pattern detectors, Bureau of Operations (BO) for bilateral commitments and custody transfers — is the firm's internal organization of agent responsibility. Each event type listed on a card is taken verbatim from the canonical taxonomy in src/lib/knox-anchor.ts; what the card claims an agent emits is auditable against what the chain actually accepts.
Evidence-Native Commerce
The agents are not products. They are the surface of a primitive: every event, every verification, every state change committed to an external chain that no institution controls. What the institutions did, Knox witnesses. What Knox witnesses, anyone can verify.