agentaccess.txt

Contributing

This is a community convention in Draft 00: the most valuable contribution right now is critical discussion, not code.

Discussing and changing the spec

• Issues and pull requests are both welcome. For substantive changes — grammar, semantics, new directives — an issue making the argument in prose is usually the better starting point, so the design discussion isn’t squeezed into a diff review.
• The spec’s §11 lists the questions we already know are open; picking one of those up is a great starting point.
• Arguments from precedent carry weight: robots.txt and AGENTS.md solved adjacent problems, and departures from their choices should be justified, not accidental.

Registering an agent identifier

The registry records one canonical vendor/product identifier per agent (spec §6.1).

If you represent the vendor: open a pull request adding or updating your row with status confirmed, from an account whose affiliation is verifiable (organization membership, or a link from the vendor’s official documentation to the PR). Confirming an identifier is a claim about the name — you are adopting it as the canonical token for your agent — not a claim about implementation status. When your tool does support the convention, link that documentation in the Reference column.

If you do not represent the vendor: open a pull request with status proposed, following the naming pattern of existing entries. Proposed entries are best-effort guesses that the vendor may later correct.

Identifier rules: lowercase, vendor/product, naming the agent product rather than the underlying model, stable across versions.

Style

• Prose in this repository is not hard-wrapped: one paragraph per line, no line breaks at any column. Let your editor soft-wrap.
• .editorconfig covers the rest (UTF-8, LF, final newline).
• BCP 14 (RFC 2119, RFC 8174) keywords (MUST, SHOULD, MAY) are reserved for the spec; do not use them casually in other documents.

License

By contributing, you agree that your contributions are licensed under CC BY 4.0, like the rest of this repository.

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