Matrix Scroll

Open protocol for signed AI-assisted code provenance.

Every AI-generated change in your IDE can be cryptographically signed by an Ed25519 identity and verified offline with a public key and one command. The v0.1.x reference implementation ships a well-tested software root of trust; SSX360/NXP SE050 hardware signing is the compatible reference-device path in progress.

• 📜 Spec: SPEC.md — wire format, canonical encoding, schemas.
• 🛡 Agentic AI controls: docs/AGENTIC_AI_SECURITY.md maps Matrix Scroll to the joint Careful Adoption of Agentic AI Services guidance.
• 🔐 Algorithm: Ed25519 (RFC 8032). Private keys are never exposed by the SDK API.
• 🧪 Conformance vectors: vectors/ — for non-Python implementations.
• 🌐 Site: https://matrixscroll.com
• 🔧 Reference device: SSX360 (NXP SE050 hardware path in progress).

Quickstart

import matrixscroll

# What identity is active on this machine?
print(matrixscroll.status())
# {'schema': 'matrixscroll.identity.v1', 'available': True,
#  'mode': 'emulated', 'device_id': 'MS-A3F2-9C81', ...}

# Sign anything (a release manifest, a commit envelope, a SBOM, an evidence pack)
signed = matrixscroll.sign_manifest({"release": "v1.0.0", "artifacts": [...]})

# Verify, anywhere, offline
assert matrixscroll.verify_manifest(signed)

CLI

$ matrixscroll status
{
  "available": true,
  "device_id": "MS-A3F2-9C81",
  "mode": "emulated",
  "public_key": "...",
  "schema": "matrixscroll.identity.v1"
}

$ matrixscroll sign release.json > release.signed.json
$ matrixscroll verify release.signed.json
{"device_id": "MS-A3F2-9C81", "mode": "emulated", "ok": true, "signed_at": "..."}

matrixscroll verify exits 0 on a valid signature, 2 on any failure (tampered manifest, missing signature block, wrong schema/algorithm, mismatched device id, malformed public key, unreadable file). Pipe it from CI without parsing the output.

How it works

   your IDE / agent / CI
            │
            │  manifest (release, commit, evidence pack, SBOM, anything)
            ▼
   matrixscroll.sign_manifest(...)
            │
            │  canonical JSON  (sorted keys, ASCII-escaped, no NaN,
            │                   signature block excluded from input)
            ▼
   IdentityProvider          ──►  Ed25519 signature
   (Emulated today,
    SSX360 / SE050 tomorrow)
            │
            ▼
   signed manifest  ──►  matrixscroll.verify_manifest(...)
                         (anyone, anywhere, offline)

The same Python API is designed to serve the local software emulator and the physical SSX360 device path. Switch with the MATRIXSCROLL_MODE environment variable; in v0.1.x, hardware mode reports unavailable until the SE050 transport ships.

Compliance levels

status() exposes the active level via the mode and available fields so read-only dashboards can render before the hardware path is wired.

Storage and trust boundaries

• Emulated key store: ~/.matrixscroll/device.json (override with MATRIXSCROLL_HOME).
• The directory is created 0700; the seed file is opened 0600 with O_CREAT|O_EXCL so the private seed is never momentarily world-readable and a race cannot silently clobber an existing key store.
• A corrupt or truncated store fails loud (IdentityError) rather than silently minting a fresh identity. Identity rotation is an explicit operation.
• The planned hardware path holds nothing private on disk — the seed is sealed in the secure element. In v0.1.x, this path is a typed availability stub.

Reference implementation, not the only one

Matrix Scroll is a protocol. This Python package is the reference. We welcome implementations in Rust, Go, TypeScript, and embedded C — run them against vectors/ to self-certify. See CONTRIBUTING.md.

Agentic AI guidance proof

The repo includes a machine-readable control matrix at controls/agentic_ai_controls.json, an example bounded-agent evidence manifest at examples/agentic_ai_evidence_manifest.json, and executable checks in tests/test_agentic_guidance.py. These prove each claim maps to repo evidence and that signed agent scope changes fail verify.

License

• Code: Apache-2.0 (LICENSE).
• Specification text (SPEC.md, vectors/): CC0 1.0 — public domain.

Security

See SECURITY.md. Report vulnerabilities privately to security@matrixscroll.com or via a GitHub Security Advisory.