# Patent

URL: https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/cli/patent

> The `hanzo patent` commands.

Also for this capability: [API](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/patent) · **CLI** · [MCP](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/mcp-tools/patent) · [SDKs](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/sdks)

The record of who thought of what, and when the machine was asked to write it.

[API reference →](https://docs.hanzo.ai/docs/openapi/patent)

```bash
hanzo patent proof
```

Every command takes `--json` for the raw response and `--help` for its own flags. Sign in once with `hanzo auth login`; the commands below use that session, and the org they act in is the one it carries.

| Command                 | What it does                                                                                                                                                         |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `hanzo patent grants`   | Makes the decision a recording never implied: whether an idea, implementation or disclosure stays private to its author's project, opens to the org, or goes public. |
| `hanzo patent health`   | Reports what this deployment actually guarantees about the records it keeps, in honest states.                                                                       |
| `hanzo patent proof`    | Folds the caller's record set and answers the ordering question over it.                                                                                             |
| `hanzo patent timeline` | Returns every retained version of one entry, in append order.                                                                                                        |

### Approvals

| Command                         | What it does                                                                |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `hanzo patent approvals create` | Appends one person's decision about one disclosure.                         |
| `hanzo patent approvals get`    | Returns the decision trail — each person's current word on each disclosure. |

### Disclosures

| Command                           | What it does                                                            |
| --------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `hanzo patent disclosures create` | Appends the assembled document and the record ids it rests on.          |
| `hanzo patent disclosures get`    | Returns the canonical disclosures, each carrying its current approvals. |

### Ideas

| Command                     | What it does                                                                                                                     |
| --------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `hanzo patent ideas create` | Appends conception entries.                                                                                                      |
| `hanzo patent ideas get`    | Returns the caller org's canonical conception entries, oldest appended first, which is the order the log says they were thought. |

### Implementations

| Command                               | What it does                                                                                                                                            |
| ------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `hanzo patent implementations create` | Appends the machine's half of the record, and the idea citation is the load-bearing field: it is what lets a reader see that the conception came first. |
| `hanzo patent implementations get`    | Returns the canonical implementation records with their citations.                                                                                      |