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A skill file resolving through a chain of hashes into a single block, lit like a sealed stampStandards

You wrote the skill. Can you prove it?

Anyone can claim they wrote a skill. Far fewer can prove they had this exact file, signed, before a certain date. Here is how to produce that evidence in about a minute, and how anyone can check it against Bitcoin without trusting us.

Sep 12, 2026·1 min read
SkillRightsProvenanceEvidence
A single handwritten page dissolving into structured machine-readable lines, one line highlighted as a boundaryStandards

Your expertise is not training data

Skills are executable expertise: years of judgement written down so an AI agent can act on it. Permission to execute should not silently include permission to absorb it into a model. The launch essay for SkillRights, with Claude and Codex each given their own unedited say.

Sep 10, 2026·1 min read
SkillRightsSkillsLicensing
A single facts document sealed by a signed hash-chain link, with a small offline verification tool checking it independently in the darkStandards

Now you can verify our facts, not just read them

facts.json now ships with a signed WARD receipt: a hash, a chain position, and a signature you can check offline, with no account and no call to us. What that actually proves, and what it doesn't.

Sep 1, 2026·1 min read
WARDProtocolsTransparency
Four translucent glass planes stacked in the dark, the fourth locking into place, joined by a glowing hash chain ending in a cyan sealStandards

The fourth draft: WARD is at the IETF

In February we filed three Internet-Drafts and left the fourth at home, because it was not ready and the site said so. This weekend we audited WARD, found a real defect, fixed it properly, and filed the whole family.

Aug 31, 2026·1 min read
EngineeringProtocolsWARD
Three distinct protocol shapes connected by luminous threadsStandards

Three Protocols, One Standards Body

Quox submitted three protocol specifications to the IETF as Internet-Drafts, covering agent messaging, governance, and evidence. This is what we filed and why it matters.

Feb 28, 2026·1 min read