> Markdown twin of https://adna.network/commons/
> Index: https://adna.network/llms.txt · Full corpus: https://adna.network/llms-full.txt
> State is a build-time snapshot generated 2026-09-11 (UTC); nothing here is live.
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*[image: A warm pixel-art bird's-eye view of a communal night garden: one great tree at the centre with several distinct, individually-tended plots — a vegetable bed, a flowering terrace, an orchard, and a glasshouse — each lit by its own amber lantern and joined only by the tree's roots and branches. The shared commons that mission-aligned subnetworks tend together.]*

# A commons, not a catalog.

Mission-aligned subnetworks are taking shape here — so the abundance AI creates belongs to everyone. See them, check them, connect to them.

Connect a subnetwork [Read the standard](/reference/specification)

[Open source on GitHub](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA) · MIT-licensed · [the standard, versioned and public](/reference/specification)

ℹ A note on the name

In genomics, *aDNA* usually means
[ancient DNA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA). This is not that.
Here it stands for *Agentic DNA* — a shared way to file what a project knows,
so people and AI agents can both find their way around it.

[What aDNA is →](/learn/what-is-adna/)

## The subnetworks

Real public-good missions on the aDNA network — each one named, cited, and honest about
its stage. A curated set, not an exhaustive one: it grows as aligned subnetworks join.

- ### World Genome Academy

Genomics knowledge as a shared commons The World Genome Academy is building genomics education and research programs — so the science is stewarded, not enclosed. Serves Genomics education & research Stewarded by Founding stewards · governance being formalized Governance on record [wga.aDNA](/vaults/wga/) [Visit ↗](https://worldgeno.me) Connect ↓
- ### Context Commons

Agentic-context literacy, shared A community program for agentic-context literacy and enablement — and the shared pool that forms when vaults publish their best context, patterns, and lattices for others to discover and reuse. Serves Community agentic-literacy & enablement Stewarded by Founding-steward today — community governance as it grows Governance on record [ContextCommons.aDNA](/vaults/contextcommons/) Connect ↓
- ### Wilhelm AI for the Undiagnosed

AI for people living with undiagnosed disease The Wilhelm AI Initiative for the Undiagnosed (AI4U) — the Wilhelm Foundation's umbrella over AI initiatives for people and families living with undiagnosed disease, including the open Rare-AI Archive. Serves People & families living with undiagnosed disease Stewarded by Hygieia · anchor Wilhelm Foundation Governance on record [WilhelmAI.aDNA](/vaults/wilhelmai/) Connect ↓ Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth) · Apache-2.0 + CC-BY-4.0
- ### Rare Archive

Open-source rare-disease AI Rare Archive is an open-source rare-disease AI project — the diagnosis-acceleration pillar of AI4U — governed under the Wilhelm Foundation, with a canonical home at Wilhelm-Foundation/rare-archive. Serves Rare-disease diagnosis acceleration Stewarded by Mnemosyne · anchor Wilhelm Foundation Governance on record [RareArchive.aDNA](/vaults/rarearchive/) [Visit ↗](https://github.com/Wilhelm-Foundation/rare-archive) Connect ↓ Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth) · Apache-2.0 + CC-BY-4.0

## Connect to a subnetwork

Three paths, in increasing depth — no account, no waitlist.

- ### Follow the work

Where a subnetwork has a public face, its card links it — the Rare Archive
repository and the World Genome Academy site are followable today; the others are still
building theirs. The open record is the front door.
- ### Connect to a subnetwork

Read a subnetwork's shared context from inside your own vault. You add a small
directory that points at theirs — a `federation_ref` block — and nothing is
copied, so their context stays theirs.
[Federation readiness](/patterns/federation-readiness/) covers what to check
before you connect, and before you share your own context back.
- ### Contribute

Join the work itself. The [community ladder](/community/) runs from vault user
to standard steward, and the
[contribution standards](/community/community-contribution-standards/) spell out
what a good contribution carries.

The boundary from [the network](/network/) holds here too: everything stays local by
default. Connecting is opt-in per vault — each node decides what it shares with a
subnetwork, and what never leaves the machine.

This is the whole connect surface today: the three paths above. What the commons already
knows about itself — and the horizon past it — is laid out plainly in
the band below.

## The commons, today

There is no activity feed here yet — the governance record is the social surface.
This is what the network's registry knows about who tends each subnetwork, shown plainly,
with nothing it doesn't.

- ### [World Genome Academy](/vaults/wga/)

Stewarded by Founding stewards · governance being formalized Governance record `wga.aDNA/CLAUDE.md`
- ### [Context Commons](/vaults/contextcommons/)

Stewarded by Founding-steward today — community governance as it grows Governance record `ContextCommons.aDNA/CLAUDE.md`
- ### [Wilhelm AI for the Undiagnosed](/vaults/wilhelmai/)

Stewarded by Hygieia · anchor Wilhelm Foundation Carries the work of Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth) Shared under Apache-2.0 + CC-BY-4.0 Governance record `WilhelmAI.aDNA/CLAUDE.md` Declared relationships umbrellas RareArchive · federates Astro, III
- ### [Rare Archive](/vaults/rarearchive/)

Stewarded by Mnemosyne · anchor Wilhelm Foundation Carries the work of Wilhelm Foundation (Helene & Mikk Cederroth) Shared under Apache-2.0 + CC-BY-4.0 Governance record `RareArchive.aDNA/CLAUDE.md` Declared relationships under the WilhelmAI umbrella

Registry regenerated 2026-08-17 from the node inventory · member records
last synced 2026-05-24. Honest activity, today, is exactly this: the dates
above and the relationships each vault declares.

What you won't find here: contributor counts, stars, or follower numbers. The registry
doesn't record them, so this page doesn't display them.

ℹ The horizon

Profiles, follows, feeds, and shared governance surfaces are **not built yet**.
They're being designed on the network's membership and federation substrate — the
same opt-in, local-by-default machinery the boundary above describes. Until they ship,
the registry and the open governance record you're reading are the whole social layer.
The network builds toward that horizon rather than implying it arrived.

## Join & steward

Language and DNA are our shared heritage. So is context — held in common, stewarded in the open, and put to work for the good of all. Bring a subnetwork, or connect to one that's already here.

[Add your subnetwork](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA) [How federation works](/patterns/federation-readiness/)