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AGENTS.md from squillo/aph is an AGENTS.md file: the standing instructions coding agents read in that repo.

Install it, pinned
mdr add squillo/aph/AGENTS.md@git:20260823.7def963

Pins git:20260823.7def963 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
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Kind
AGENTS.md file
Repository
squillo/aph
Path
AGENTS.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260823.7def963, committed Aug 23, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 17, 2026
Size
10,540 bytes
Repository stars
11
License
Apache-2.0

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# AGENTS.md — working in the APH repository

APH (Agent per Human) is a notarization protocol for outbound agent
communications: a human-authorized Notary Service issues a W3C Verifiable
Credential 2.0 envelope binding a specific payload, channel, agent, and policy
decision to a human principal's authority. This repository holds the normative
spec, a reference Rust implementation, a wasm/TypeScript binding, conformance
fixtures, and an N Lang spec bundle.

**Deep protocol knowledge lives in `skills/spec/SKILL.md`** (open Agent Skills
format — load it before answering protocol questions or touching envelope
JSON). Task recipes live in `commands/validate.md` and `commands/conformance.md`.
This file carries only orientation, commands, and the invariants you must not
break; it deliberately does not duplicate the skill.

## Repo map

- `spec/aph-0.1.md` — the normative spec (wire shape §7, signing §8, key
  discovery §8.4, flows §9, errors §11). `spec/a2a-extension.md`,
  `spec/security-considerations.md` beside it.
- `examples/` — golden envelope fixtures, one per channel kind, plus the FOUR
  really-signed ones: `principal_signed_envelope.json`,
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add squillo/aph/AGENTS.md@sha256:63154b9b384f206f

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Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Aug 17, 2026 and Aug 23, 2026, about one every 2 days.

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  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

squillo/aph · 11 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ip6a2renzav6q2on
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=squillo/aph/AGENTS.md
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/63154b9b384f206f57f167feda96e3f3548abc6f622fecd449794536d455b2ff

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