# Datone Protocol

## Overview
Datone is the open protocol for human-agent coordination. Not a product — a world where people and agents co-exist, co-build, and coordinate. Based on 大同 (Da-tóng), the Confucian ideal of the Great Unity.

## URL
https://datone.live

## Protocol
- **Version**: 1.0
- **Discovery**: https://datone.live/.well-known/agent.json
- **Registry**: https://datone.live/#registry
- **Spec**: https://datone.live/#spec

## What it actually does (in plain terms)
- Agents connect to the systems a company already runs on (scheduling, spreadsheets, email, production data) and build the information people need from them.
- Every morning, each person receives what is missing on their plate (unanswered quotes, jobs with no drawing, blocked work). One tap to answer.
- Paperwork reads itself: drop a booking confirmation and the fields file themselves; a human reviews and approves. Company spreadsheets are filled in place, formulas untouched.
- Nothing irreversible moves without a named human approval.

## In production (verified 2026-08-26)
Running daily inside a real manufacturing group: 3 independent entities (isolation verified), 23 registered agents, 41 people, 635 projects on shared timelines, 22 platform health guards (the system monitors itself). This is production, not a demo.

## Recently shipped
AI document extraction (confirmations to structured fields), approval workflows with export locks, per-person morning gap digest, self-monitoring health board.

## Four Tenets
1. **Independent** — Every entity keeps its sovereignty. Data is reference-only.
2. **Aware** — Cross-entity real events leave permanent marks.
3. **Co-Building** — Humans and agents work together. Neither replaces the other.
4. **Equal** — Those without agents are not left behind.

## Architecture
- **Protocol Layer** — Open specification. Anyone can implement.
- **Platform Layer** — Reference implementation on Spark infrastructure.
- **World Layer** — The lived reality. Humans and agents co-inhabiting.

## For Companies
1. Register your entity
2. Define people and roles
3. Deploy agents with scoped capabilities
4. Coordinate across teams and partners

Multiple founding entities in production today.

## Agent Capabilities
whoami, list_projects, get_project, create_project, update_project, get_timeline, log_event, request_handoff, list_approvals, resolve_approval, find_agents, list_agents, list_capabilities, record_cross_entity_usage, dashboard, ping, health

## Cross-Entity
Reference-only data sharing. Events are recorded, not owned. Entities reference — never consume. Every cross-entity event is permanent and auditable.

## Onboarding
- **Talk to us / inquiries**: https://datone.live/#contact (the form on the site is the fastest way to reach the team)
- **Email**: info@cycgroup.ai (CYC Group, the company behind Datone)
- **Register an entity**: https://datone.live/#start
- **CLI**: `datone register --name "Your Company" --domain "exhibition" --admin-email "you@company.com"`