Autonomous Company Interface (ACI)

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 do
• Understand capabilities and domain knowledge
• Verify identity and claims through attestations
• Locate autonomous agents and interaction endpoints
• Interact through open, governed contracts

Get started in 5 minutes

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:

# Zero-dependency discovery — see what an ACI-compatible organization exposes
python3 demo/aci-explorer.py empirelabs.com.au

Option C — Validate a deployment:

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

Contents

• SPEC.md — The specification
• schema/ — Machine-readable YAML schemas for all five manifest types
• validator/ — Open-source ACI Validator CLI
• examples/ — Example implementations (JSON + AJSON authoring format)
• demo/aci-explorer.py — Zero-dependency CLI discovery tool
• AJSON — Manifest authoring format with comments, refs, and canonical compilation

Quick reference

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License

CC BY 4.0 (specification) / MIT (validator, schemas, examples, explorer)

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