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ACI – The Open Standard for Autonomous Companies

A new open standard called ACI (Autonomous Company Interface) has been proposed to enable autonomous agents to discover, understand, and interact with organizations through machine-readable contracts. The draft specification v0.9 aims for v1.0 after three independent implementations, providing tools for discovery, validation, and interaction.

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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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