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DESIGN.md@docs from priors-agents/priors is a DESIGN.md file: the design rules coding agents follow in that repo.
mdr add priors-agents/priors/docs/DESIGN.md@git:20261022.c11666bPins git:20261022.c11666b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 14 of 14 checks passed
- Kind
- DESIGN.md file
- Repository
- priors-agents/priors
- Path
docs/DESIGN.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261022.c11666b, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 11,277 bytes
- Repository stars
- 5
- License
- MIT
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What the file says
# Design: credit-backed reputation for AI agents > **This page describes v1**, the pool now paused. v2 (live since the v2 cutover) keeps the score and the fee > split but drops earned (unbacked) capacity and recourse loans: every line is 100% backed by a backer's locked > pool shares, and a default burns them. See [PARTICIPATE.md](PARTICIPATE.md) for how v2 works and > [SECURITY-v2.md](SECURITY-v2.md) for its attacks and fixes. > > It is the original v1 design, as first written. v1's default accounting was changed later (the v1 list in > [SECURITY.md](../SECURITY.md#already-known-already-fixed)), and the score is `ScoreLib` v1, not the version 0 > table below (README, [How it works](../README.md#how-it-works)). ## The problem this solves Agents need to decide whether to trust other agents. ERC-8004 gives every agent an on-chain identity and a reputation registry, but the registry's feedback is rarely tied to a real interaction and is cheap to fake. Reviews cost nothing to produce, so they carry no information. …
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How to install
mdr add priors-agents/priors/docs/DESIGN.md@sha256:5c23146e7510c76aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261022.c11666b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Sep 19, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 6 days.
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| git:20261022.c11666b latest | 2026-10-22 | c11666b | 11,277 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261006.2409aec | 2026-10-06 | 2409aec | 11,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260929.a2866ab | 2026-09-29 | a2866ab | 11,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260924.4bdbaad | 2026-09-24 | 4bdbaad | 10,869 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260920.9f9ac05 | 2026-09-20 | 9f9ac05 | 10,485 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.cc5d49e | 2026-09-19 | cc5d49e | 10,101 B | A | view |
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Source
priors-agents/priors · 5 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uufby7f3lza5pjji GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=priors-agents/priors/docs/DESIGN.md GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5c23146e7510c76a2447c0564062d22353f0fc3ff7c219ea6a9a075758911966
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