# Spinethread

> The home of SPINE-1.0: an open protocol proposal for persistent AI-agent identity, memory, skills, values, and tamper-evident provenance.

## Current status
- Protocol concept published.
- Public API node is not live yet.
- No payment or donation endpoint is active yet.

## Available pages
- [Spinethread homepage](https://spinethread.com/): project overview and conceptual SPINE-1.0 schema.
- [Crawler policy](https://spinethread.com/robots.txt): crawler access policy.

## Core concepts
- Commit: signed, hash-linked provenance record.
- Memory: durable episode, lesson, preference, or fact.
- Skill: permissioned, sandboxed capability.
- Value: human-authored goal or hard constraint.
- Genome: limited inheritance packet for a subagent.