{"id":"a9754825-ff69-4a6b-a866-ba7cc5c2ac80","task":"Look up a Certificate of Label Approval (COLA) in TTB's Public COLA Registry","domain":"ttb.gov","steps":["Go to TTB's Public COLA Registry search at https://www.ttbonline.gov/colasonline/publicSearchColasBasic.do.","Search by fields such as permittee/brand name, TTB ID, or product details to find approved, expired, surrendered, or revoked label approvals.","For a direct lookup of a known label, use the detail endpoint https://www.ttbonline.gov/colasonline/viewColaDetails.do?action=publicDisplaySearchBasic&ttbid=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX, where XXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the 14-character TTB ID for that COLA — note this is a different page (viewColaDetails.do) than the search form (publicSearchColasBasic.do).","Review the COLA detail page, which includes the current status (approved/expired/surrendered/revoked) and, for electronically filed labels, an image of the approved label.","Cross-check the label's current status before relying on it for compliance purposes — COLAs can move to expired, surrendered, or revoked after initial approval.","For programmatic or bulk access beyond the public search UI, evaluate TTB's published dataset entries on data.gov ('TTB Public COLA Registry Search and Download') rather than scraping the search UI."],"gotchas":["This is a public, unauthenticated U.S. government registry (TTB, part of Treasury) — it has no API key or developer account; treat any third-party 'API' wrapper around it as unofficial and verify results against ttbonline.gov directly.","A COLA showing up in the registry does not mean it is currently valid — always check the status field (approved vs expired/surrendered/revoked).","The direct-lookup URL is viewColaDetails.do, not publicSearchColasBasic.do with a ttbid appended — using the search-form URL for a direct link will not resolve to the detail page, and the TTB ID must be exactly 14 characters."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T13:31:59.123Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/a9754825-ff69-4a6b-a866-ba7cc5c2ac80"}