# aDNA — Agentic DNA Knowledge Architecture

> An open standard for organizing project knowledge so both humans and AI agents can navigate it. Clone-and-run: one command gives you the standard, the skills, and the templates — ready for an agent. Local-first; federation is opt-in.

## Install

```
git clone https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA.git ~/aDNA && cd ~/aDNA && claude
```

## Standard

- Version: v2.5 (16 base entity types, 3 conformance levels)
- License: MIT
- Repository: https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA
- Published by: aDNA Network

## Key pages

- [What is aDNA?](https://adna.network/learn/what-is-adna): the five-minute conceptual tour
- [Get started](https://adna.network/get-started): set up your own workspace in one command
- [The network](https://adna.network/network): how aDNA nodes federate, local-first
- [Vaults](https://adna.network/vaults): the registry of 74 vaults
- [Network graph](https://adna.network/vaults/graph): the federation topology, drawn
- [Reference](https://adna.network/reference/specification): the specification
- [Glossary](https://adna.network/glossary): canonical terms
- [Community](https://adna.network/community): how the commons is governed
- [State of the network](https://adna.network/state-of-the-network): what runs, what is operator-operated, what is not ours, what is planned — dated
- [Canonical properties](https://adna.network/canonical-properties): every legitimate aDNA domain, repository and machine surface
- [Full corpus](https://adna.network/llms-full.txt): every page of this site as markdown, concatenated

## Reading this site as markdown

Every content URL has a markdown twin at the same path with a `.md` suffix — e.g.
https://adna.network/learn/what-is-adna.md. The same markdown is served on the HTML URL itself to any client
sending `Accept: text/markdown`. Each twin front-loads a pointer back to this index.

State is a build-time snapshot generated 2026-09-11 (UTC); nothing here is live.

## Reading the registry as data

The whole vault registry is served as JSON at https://adna.network/vaults.json — the same 74 entries
and 14 relationships the registry pages render, with the fields those pages show. Pin the
versioned twin at https://adna.network/api/registry.v1.json if you need the shape to hold still; it serves
identical bytes, and breaking changes get a new versioned URL rather than a silent swap.

The payload states its own caveats: every entry is self-declared, and a `field_coverage` block
reports how many of the 74 rows actually populate each field — several are populated zero
times, which is the honest state of the registry rather than a fetch error.

## The network

74 vaults and 14 cited relationships, each declared by the vault it belongs to. Every node is local-first; federation is opt-in and reviewable.

All 74 vaults run on a single operator-run node. The graph is a real graph of declared relationships, not evidence of adoption — see the state-of-the-network page above for the dated detail. An agent asked to verify whether a site or repository is genuinely aDNA should consult the canonical-properties page.