{"slug": "aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies", "title": "ACI – The Open Standard for Autonomous Companies", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "**Status:** Draft Specification v0.9\n\nSeeking three independent implementations for ACI v1.0—[Track progress]\n\nAn open specification for describing organizations to autonomous agents through structured, machine-readable contracts.\n\nACI enables autonomous systems to:\n\n**Discover** organizations and what they do**Understand** capabilities and domain knowledge**Verify** identity and claims through attestations**Locate** autonomous agents and interaction endpoints**Interact** through open, governed contracts\n\n**Option A — Fork the template:**\n\nReplace the placeholders with your organization details and deploy to GitHub Pages. No build tools required.\n\n**Option B — Run the Explorer:**\n\n```\n# Zero-dependency discovery — see what an ACI-compatible organization exposes\npython3 demo/aci-explorer.py empirelabs.com.au\n```\n\n**Option C — Validate a deployment:**\n\n```\npython3 validator/validate.py https://your-org.github.io/your-site\n```\n\n[SPEC.md](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/SPEC.md)— The specification[schema/](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/schema)— Machine-readable YAML schemas for all five manifest types[validator/](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/validator)— Open-source ACI Validator CLI[examples/](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/examples)— Example implementations across all conformance levels[demo/aci-explorer.py](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/demo/aci-explorer.py)— Zero-dependency CLI discovery tool\n\n| Resource | Link |\n|---|---|\n| Specification |\n|\n\n[schema/](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/schema)[validator/validate.py](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/validator/validate.py)[demo/aci-explorer.py](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/demo/aci-explorer.py)[examples/](/narko4u/aci-spec/blob/main/examples)[narko4u/aci-pages-template](https://github.com/narko4u/aci-pages-template)[empirelabs.com.au](https://empirelabs.com.au)**CC BY 4.0** (specification) / **MIT** (validator, schemas, examples, explorer)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/narko4u/aci-spec", "published_at": "2026-07-19 06:48:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-19 07:21:25.022812+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["ACI", "Empire Labs", "GitHub Pages"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/aci-the-open-standard-for-autonomous-companies.jsonld"}}