Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: colophon
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: Colophon Protocol — structured provenance chains for verifiable human authorship in AI-assisted creative works
Author: Paul Kyle
License: MIT
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/colophon-protocol/colophon
Keywords: provenance,attribution,ai,creative,copyright,authorship,git
Classifier: Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Version Control :: Git
Requires-Python: >=3.11
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE
Dynamic: license-file

# Colophon Protocol

Structured provenance chains for verifiable human authorship in AI-assisted creative works.

**Status:** Pre-alpha. Package name reserved. Implementation in progress.

## What is Colophon?

The Colophon Protocol records every AI-assisted creative transformation as a typed, structured operation in version-controlled history. It produces a machine-readable and human-auditable record of how a creative work was made — which parts were human-authored, which were AI-generated, and how human creative direction shaped the output.

## Why?

AI-assisted creative tools produce outputs where human and AI contributions are indistinguishable. The U.S. Copyright Office requires evidence of human creative direction for copyright registration of AI-assisted works. No existing system produces this evidence as a byproduct of the creative workflow.

Colophon does.

## License

MIT
