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ACI – The Open Standard for Autonomous Companies

A draft specification v0.9 for the Autonomous Company Interface (ACI) has been released as an open standard for describing organizations to autonomous agents through structured, machine-readable contracts. The specification enables autonomous systems to discover organizations, understand capabilities, verify identity via attestations, locate interaction endpoints, and interact through governed contracts. The project seeks three independent implementations before declaring ACI v1.0.

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ACI – The Open Standard for Autonomous Companies
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Status: Draft Specification v0.9

Seeking three independent implementations for ACI v1.0—[Track progress]

An open specification for describing organizations to autonomous agents through structured, machine-readable contracts.

ACI enables autonomous systems to:

Discover organizations and what they doUnderstand capabilities and domain knowledgeVerify identity and claims through attestationsLocate autonomous agents and interaction endpointsInteract through open, governed contracts

Option A — Fork the template:

Replace the placeholders with your organization details and deploy to GitHub Pages. No build tools required.

Option B — Run the Explorer:

python3 demo/aci-explorer.py empirelabs.com.au

Option C — Validate a deployment:

python3 validator/validate.py https://your-org.github.io/your-site

SPEC.md— The specificationschema/— Machine-readable YAML schemas for all five manifest typesvalidator/— Open-source ACI Validator CLIexamples/— Example implementations across all conformance levelsdemo/aci-explorer.py— Zero-dependency CLI discovery tool

Resource Link
Specification

schema/validator/validate.pydemo/aci-explorer.pyexamples/narko4u/aci-pages-templateempirelabs.com.auCC BY 4.0 (specification) / MIT (validator, schemas, examples, explorer)

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