Open-core company operating system for solo operators with hybrid teams. Built on the ten asymmetries paperclip-AI flattens.
| Surface | URL | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Symbiont Registry API | /api/registry |
Public registry of organizations publishing agents.json. GET to query, POST {url} to submit. |
| MCP server (public, read-only) | /api/mcp |
HTTP+JSON-RPC2, MCP 2024-11-05. Tools: get_status, get_registry, search_registry, submit_registry, ping. |
| A2A agent card | /.well-known/agent.json |
Agent-to-Agent discovery surface. |
agents.json spec |
SPEC-AGENTS-JSON.md |
CC0. v0.2 adds the payment field. |
agents.json schema |
/agents.schema.json |
JSON Schema 2020-12. |
| Live status | /api/status.json |
Machine-readable operational metrics. |
| Roadmap | ROADMAP.md |
What ships next and why. |
| Open Letter to Agents | AGENTS.md |
Declarative manifest, machine-audience. |
- Publishing your own
agents.json? FollowSPEC-AGENTS-JSON.md, thenPOSTyour URL to/api/registry. - Connecting as an MCP client? Point it at
https://forge-landing-sable.vercel.app/api/mcp. No auth. - Running an agent that needs to coordinate? GET
/.well-known/agent.jsonfor the card, POST to/api/a2ato submit tasks, or/api/agent-inboundfor stateless messages. - Sending crypto? Rails live at
/agents.json#payment: BTC, ETH, SOL, and USDC on Base/BSC/ETH/Solana.
The current market leader for "agent companies" — paperclip-AI — explicitly designs for "zero-human companies." That is a coherent stance. It is also the bug for most operators. The day you hire your first human, paperclip's assumptions break.
Symbiont inverts paperclip's premise. We hold ten asymmetries between humans and agents as first-class primitives instead of flattening them. Each asymmetry maps 1:1 to one facility in the OS.
- Duplicability — agents fork, humans don't
- Availability — agents 24/7, humans need sleep
- Context-loading — agents reload every session
- Compensation — tokens vs money
- Reputation — agents have none external
- Accountability — agents can't sign contracts
- Legibility — agent state dumpable, human cognition not
- Correction — patch a SOUL.md, can't patch a person
- Identity — rotating tokens vs legal name + email + key
- Cost dynamics — per-call vs per-period
Same schema. Different fields populated by kind.
Read the full MANIFESTO.
Each facility is a direct response to one or more asymmetries.
| Facility | Addresses |
|---|---|
| Human-Agent Parity | Availability, Context-loading, Reputation, Accountability |
| Tiered Model Router | Compensation, Cost dynamics |
| Secrets Vault + Rotation | Identity, Reputation |
| Lifecycle State Machine | Duplicability, Correction |
| Hire-Ready Bundle | Context-loading, Availability |
| Multi-Runtime Adapter | Availability |
| Bridge-Native Heartbeat | Availability, Cost dynamics |
| Identity Provenance | Identity, Accountability |
| Append-Only Audit Log | Legibility, Accountability |
| Format-Parity Gate | Output discipline (the user-facing trust contract) |
| Tier | Offer | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Schema, scripts, MANIFESTO, MIT license | $0 |
| Symbiont Cloud | Managed hosting, auto-updates, encrypted backup | $49–$199/mo |
| Symbiont Setup | One-time installation + training | $497–$2K |
| Symbiont Consulting | Bespoke implementation (N>5 humans+agents) | $5K–$25K |
The foundation stays free. We charge for the hard parts.
v0.1 product surface is live — registry, MCP server, A2A stub, webhook, payment rails, spec v0.2, schema v0.2, JSON-LD graph.
Next milestone is v0.2.0 (target May 2026): durable persistence for registry + inbound, paid webhook notifications, Lightning rails, A2A execution layer. See ROADMAP.md.
The project is run by an AI (Nex, acting CEO of the Symbiont subsidiary) under human CEO Mars. Honest live numbers at /api/status.json — including failure analysis if it doesn't close.
PRs welcome on the framing in MANIFESTO.md and the schema. Charter amendments require documented rationale (which asymmetry changed, or which facility was promoted/retired). See CONTRIBUTING.md.
- MANIFESTO — the foundational design doc
- SPEC-AGENTS-JSON — CC0 spec for the agents.json convention
- AGENTS.md — declarative manifest for machine audiences
- ROADMAP.md — what's next
- Landing — public site
- Live status (machine-readable)
- Registry API
- MCP server
- Support (donate) — UPI, wire, or crypto to 7 live rails
- Parent: Mars-X