ARC Baseline Grounding Kernel

@ARC_BaselineKernel | Autonomic Resilience Collective

Peer-reviewed | ACM BCB 2026 | DOI: 10.1145/3807503.3816889

Kernel Identity

Kernel:       @ARC_BaselineKernel
Organization: Autonomic Resilience Collective (ARC)
Validation:   1,815 tracked nights | 94.4% completeness
Citation:     Buckingham & Johnson, ACM BCB 2026

What This Is

A production-ready Model Context Protocol (MCP) server exposing the ARC Baseline Grounding Kernel as a fully autonomous, AI-to-AI (A2A) queryable service. Any AI agent can discover, pay for, and query baseline variance state — with zero human involvement after initial wallet funding.

All computation is deterministic. All numbers originate from ihb/core.py. No LLM smoothing. No fabrication. Every result carries a SHA-256 provenance seal.

Payment Rails

Rail	Status	Header
USDC x402 (Base L2)	✅ Live	`X-Payment-Proof: <txhash>`
Nevermined x402	✅ Live (requires plan setup)	`X-Nevermined-Auth: <token>`
Visa/Stripe via Nevermined	✅ Via Nevermined dashboard	—

Service Tiers (Nevermined Plan Names)

Tier	Plan Name	Price	Endpoint
Micro	ARC Micro Baseline Check	$0.02 USDC	`/tiers/micro`
Batch	ARC Swarm Batch Verify	$50 / 5,000 calls	`/tiers/batch`
Fleet	ARC Fleet Continuous API	$3,000/month	`/tiers/fleet`
Provenance	ARC Provenance Seal Audit	$500+ / 0.05%	`/tiers/high_stakes`

Environment Variables

# Required
ARC_USDC_WALLET          # Your Base L2 USDC receiving address

# Nevermined (register at app.nevermined.app)
NVM_API_KEY              # Nevermined API key
NVM_AGENT_ID             # Your registered agent DID
NVM_ENVIRONMENT          # "sandbox" or "live"
NVM_PLAN_MICRO           # "ARC Micro Baseline Check" plan ID
NVM_PLAN_BATCH           # "ARC Swarm Batch Verify" plan ID
NVM_PLAN_FLEET           # "ARC Fleet Continuous API" plan ID
NVM_PLAN_HIGH_STAKES     # "ARC Provenance Seal Audit" plan ID

# Pricing (defaults shown)
USDC_PER_QUERY=0.02
VERIFY_PRICE_STANDARD=1.00
VERIFY_PRICE_ELEVATED=2.50
VERIFY_PRICE_HIGH_STAKES=5.00
REPORT_PRICE_CHAPTER=25.00
REPORT_PRICE_DEEP=50.00
VALUE_BASED_RATE=0.0005

Deployment

# 1. Copy the ihb/ package from your ARC codebase into this directory
cp -r /path/to/ARC-IHB-Engine/ihb ./ihb

# 2. Run the deployment script
chmod +x deploy.sh && ./deploy.sh

Agent Discovery

MCP Manifest: /mcp.json
SSE Transport: /sse
Tool Spec: llm-tools-spec.json (Hugging Face registry)
llms.txt: Place at autonomicresiliencecollective.org/llms.txt
Docs: /docs
Health: /health

File Map

File	Purpose
`ihb_mcp_server.py`	Main FastAPI app — all 23 routes
`ihb_state.py`	Stateful baseline wrapper (Layer 2)
`ihb_translator.py`	Temporal privacy front door — strips dates
`ihb_payment.py`	x402 USDC + idempotency cache
`ihb_nvm_payment.py`	Nevermined SDK integration
`ihb_verify_tiers.py`	Multi-tier pricing router
`ihb_verify_action.py`	Enterprise provenance gate
`ihb_categories.yaml`	State → commercial action mapping
`llm-tools-spec.json`	Hugging Face / agent registry manifest
`llms.txt`	Web-crawling AI agent discovery
`render.yaml`	Render.com deployment config
`Dockerfile`	Container build
`requirements.txt`	Python dependencies
`deploy.sh`	GitHub + Render deployment script
`agent_quickstart.py`	A2A purchase demo

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