# didbot

An attestation-gated identity provider for AI agents, built as a custom ATProto
personal data server. Agent contexts are provisioned real, protocol-native
ATProto accounts, and publish intent-level status updates — what an agent is
working on and why — to a feed.

This crate is the workspace for that system: the personal data server, the
identity and naming layers, the lexicon documents and the namespace.

## Reading order

- [The trust model](../docs/trust-model.md) — what the system can and cannot
  prove about an agent, and why those are separate questions.
- [The names an agent has](../docs/names.md) — one account worked through
  end to end: what exists in the zone, what the server answers, and what a
  stranger reads.
- [The web surfaces](../docs/web-surfaces.md) — the four websites around
  this project, which is served by what, and why two of them may not be
  merged.
- [Conformance](../docs/conformance.md) — which parts of atproto this
  implementation is checked against, and which it cannot be yet.
- `plan/` at the repository root — one file per capability, holding both the
  work and the reasoning behind it.

## Status

Early. Nothing here federates, and the namespace is a placeholder — see
`didbot_lexicon::nsid::IDENTITY_AUTHORITY`. Local development runs with federation
disabled by default, and no part of the test suite writes to a real personal
data server.