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  "$schema": "https://rootz.global/ai/schemas/ai-discovery-v1.2.json",
  "specVersion": "1.2.0",
  "schemaVersion": "2026-02",
  "standard": {
    "description": "The AI Discovery Standard specification — The Signed Web",
    "url": "https://rootz.global/ai/standard.md",
    "versions": {
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      "v1.2": "https://rootz.global/ai/standard.md"
    },
    "format": "text/markdown",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
  },
  "generated": "2026-03-05T00:00:00Z",
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    "legalName": "Rootz, Corp.",
    "domain": "rootz.global",
    "founded": "2024",
    "headquarters": "United States",
    "digitalName": "0xD36AAf65a91bB7dc69942cF6B6d1dBa4Ef171664",
    "blockchain": "Polygon",
    "tagline": "In the Future Everything has a Wallet",
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      "data-infrastructure",
      "hardware-security",
      "AI"
    ],
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        "hardware-security",
        "TPM",
        "blockchain-architecture",
        "data-sovereignty"
      ]
    }
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    "description": "Structured company knowledge base for AI consumption",
    "url": "https://rootz.global/ai/knowledge.json",
    "format": "application/json",
    "schema": "rootz-knowledge-v1"
  },
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    "description": "AI-optimized news and updates feed",
    "url": "https://rootz.global/ai/feed.json",
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    "schema": "rootz-feed-v1",
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      "auth": "none",
      "rateLimit": "100/hour",
      "languages": [
        "en"
      ]
    },
    "feed": {
      "available": true,
      "url": "/.well-known/ai/feed",
      "auth": "none",
      "rateLimit": "100/hour"
    },
    "query": {
      "available": false
    },
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      "available": true,
      "url": "https://mcp.rootz.global",
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      "description": "Rootz MCP server with 32+ tools for archive, knowledge graph, and blockchain interaction"
    },
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      "description": "Owner-controlled publication history (planned)"
    },
    "pages": {
      "available": true,
      "url": "/ai/pages.json",
      "auth": "none",
      "description": "Signed page manifest with content hashes for all HTML pages"
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    "tools": {
      "available": true,
      "url": "/ai/tools.json",
      "auth": "none",
      "description": "WebMCP tool manifest with code attestation. Lists callable tools, API endpoints, and JavaScript bundle hashes for integrity verification.",
      "protocols": [
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        "mcp-sse",
        "rest"
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      "proofLevel": "signed-manifest"
    },
    "attestation": {
      "available": true,
      "url": "/ai/attestation.json",
      "auth": "none",
      "phase": 0,
      "description": "RATS-aligned attestation manifest. Content integrity evidence for AI agents — verify page hashes, tool manifests, and discovery docs. Phase 0: self-signed. See DESIGN-attestation-manifest.md for Phase 1-3 (DNS-anchored, on-chain authority, wRvT-attested).",
      "standardsAlignment": [
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        "TCG RIM v1.1",
        "NIST SP 800-193"
      ]
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          "skillUrl": "https://rootz.global/assets/skills/ai-discovery/SKILL.md",
          "downloadUrl": "https://rootz.global/assets/skills/ai-discovery.zip",
          "format": "agentskills.io",
          "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
          "signed": true,
          "manifestUrl": "https://rootz.global/assets/skills/ai-discovery/skill-manifest.json",
          "triggerPhrases": [
            "check a website's AI readiness",
            "scan a site for AI",
            "find out about a company",
            "verify website information",
            "generate ai.json"
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
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      "title": "Home",
      "purpose": "Company overview and core value proposition",
      "concepts": [
        "Data Wallets",
        "Digital Names",
        "Data Manufacturing",
        "Origin Verification"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/technology",
      "title": "Technology",
      "purpose": "Technical architecture of Data Wallets and the platform stack",
      "concepts": [
        "Secrets",
        "Notes",
        "Identity Contracts",
        "Epistery",
        "TPM"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/data-manufacturing",
      "title": "Data Manufacturing",
      "purpose": "How data is manufactured with immutable origin and ownership",
      "concepts": [
        "Origin Squared",
        "Genesis Blocks",
        "Electrons to Knowledge to Wealth"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/digital-names",
      "title": "Digital Names",
      "purpose": "How Digital Names provide the foundation for ownership and origin",
      "concepts": [
        "Origin Squared",
        "Cryptographic Identity",
        "Blockchain Wallets"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/use-cases",
      "title": "Use Cases",
      "purpose": "Industry applications and value creation through origin verification",
      "concepts": [
        "Supply Chain",
        "Real Estate",
        "AI Archive",
        "Semiconductors",
        "Advertising"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/white-paper",
      "title": "White Paper: Data with Origin and Ownership",
      "purpose": "Comprehensive technical and market white paper covering the $300 trillion opportunity",
      "concepts": [
        "Epistery",
        "Data Sovereignty",
        "Universal Wallets",
        "Genesis Recording"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/team",
      "title": "Team",
      "purpose": "Team background, mission statement, and 25-year hardware security heritage"
    },
    {
      "path": "/blog",
      "title": "Blog",
      "purpose": "News, partnerships, and updates from the Origin Economy"
    },
    {
      "path": "/blog/ai-archive-beta",
      "title": "AI Archive Beta: Own Your AI Thinking",
      "purpose": "Product announcement for AI conversation archiving with Data Wallets",
      "concepts": [
        "AI Archive",
        "Intellectual Property",
        "Proof of Origin",
        "Genesis Block"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/blog/made-in-usa-one",
      "title": "Truth Matters: Veritize Sovereign Architecture",
      "purpose": "Partnership with Made in USA One / Verity One Ltd for supply chain provenance",
      "concepts": [
        "Veritize",
        "Physical Fingerprinting",
        "PUF",
        "Ghost Labels",
        "Molecular Receipt"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/blog/ai-readable-web",
      "title": "The AI-Readable Web: /.well-known/ai.json",
      "purpose": "Introducing the Rootz AI Discovery Standard for machine-readable web content",
      "concepts": [
        "AI Discovery Standard",
        "Plain English + Plain AI",
        "Signed Data"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/faq",
      "title": "FAQ",
      "purpose": "Frequently asked questions about Data Wallets, Digital Names, and Data Manufacturing"
    },
    {
      "path": "/contact",
      "title": "Contact",
      "purpose": "Business inquiries, partnerships, and technical integration"
    },
    {
      "path": "/insights",
      "title": "Insights",
      "purpose": "Thought leadership on Corporate Digital Names, Data Manufacturing, and the Origin Economy"
    },
    {
      "path": "/beta",
      "title": "AI Archive Beta",
      "purpose": "Beta access sign-up for the AI Archive product"
    },
    {
      "path": "/ai-discovery",
      "title": "AI Discovery Standard",
      "purpose": "Landing page for the AI Discovery Standard with scanner tool, implementation generator, AI prompt library, and adoption registry",
      "concepts": [
        "AI Discovery Standard",
        "/.well-known/ai",
        "AI Readability Scanner",
        "Signed Web",
        "Content Verification"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/wrvt",
      "title": "wRVT Token Portal",
      "purpose": "Portal for RVT holders to wrap tokens to wRVT on Polygon, purchase Rootz credits with 25% bonus, and stake for tier benefits",
      "concepts": [
        "wRVT",
        "Wrapped RVT",
        "Token Bridge",
        "FX-Portal",
        "Staking Tiers",
        "Credits"
      ]
    },
    {
      "path": "/generate",
      "title": "AI Discovery Generator",
      "purpose": "Web-based tool to generate ai.json and supporting files for any website. Extracts site data, enhances with AI, and produces ready-to-deploy AI Discovery files.",
      "concepts": [
        "AI Discovery Generator",
        "ai.json",
        "knowledge.json",
        "llms.txt",
        "Site Extraction"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "term": "Data Wallet",
      "definition": "A cryptographic container that gives every piece of data its own unique identity, ownership verification, and access controls. Implemented as a Secret (smart contract) with Notes (append-only feed). Not for cryptocurrency -- for proving origin and ownership of any data.",
      "relatedTerms": [
        "Secret",
        "Notes",
        "Genesis Block"
      ]
    },
    {
      "term": "Digital Name",
      "definition": "A unique blockchain address (0x...) that establishes a verifiable cryptographic foundation for individuals, businesses, or objects. Unlike identity systems, Digital Names focus on ownership and origin rather than identity.",
      "example": "Rootz Corp Digital Name: 0xD36AAf65a91bB7dc69942cF6B6d1dBa4Ef171664"
    },
    {
      "term": "Data Manufacturing",
      "definition": "The systematic creation of authenticated data objects with built-in provenance, ownership verification, and immutable origin tracking. Transforms electrons into knowledge into wealth."
    },
    {
      "term": "Origin Squared (Origin²)",
      "definition": "WHO created it + WHO owns it. The two verifiable attributes that transform raw data into Knowledge and Knowledge into Wealth."
    },
    {
      "term": "Secret (Channel)",
      "definition": "The core Rootz primitive. A blockchain smart contract that holds encrypted data with granular access controls. Everything in Rootz is built on Secrets."
    },
    {
      "term": "Notes (Feed)",
      "definition": "An append-only log of entries attached to a Secret. The mechanism for accumulating data over time within a Data Wallet -- like a journal or feed."
    },
    {
      "term": "Identity Contract",
      "definition": "An on-chain smart contract that represents a Digital Name. Manages authorized signers, key rotation, and authorization relationships."
    },
    {
      "term": "Genesis Block",
      "definition": "The first entry in a Data Wallet, recording WHO created the data, WHAT was created, WHEN (blockchain timestamp), and WHERE (device/domain). Immutable proof of origin."
    },
    {
      "term": "Epistery",
      "definition": "The Rootz blockchain infrastructure layer (from Greek episteme, meaning knowledge). Manages Secrets, Notes, and Identity Contracts on Polygon."
    },
    {
      "term": "Everything has a Wallet",
      "definition": "The foundational Rootz philosophy that every digital object -- social media posts, IoT devices, documents, business data -- should have its own cryptographic wallet with proof of origin and ownership."
    },
    {
      "term": "Plain English + Plain AI",
      "definition": "The dual-layer documentation architecture from Veritize. Plain English is the human-readable Markdown layer. Plain AI is the machine-ingestible JSON/Schema layer. Every document has both."
    }
  ],
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    {
      "name": "AI Archive",
      "description": "Archive AI conversations from Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini with cryptographic proof of origin and ownership. Each conversation becomes a Data Wallet with blockchain timestamp.",
      "status": "beta",
      "url": "https://rootz.global/beta"
    },
    {
      "name": "Veritize / Made in USA One",
      "description": "Supply chain provenance with physical fingerprinting (PUF), molecular receipts, Ghost Labels, and blockchain-anchored compliance. Partnership with Verity One Ltd (OTC: USDW).",
      "status": "partnership",
      "partner": "Verity One Ltd (OTC: USDW)"
    },
    {
      "name": "Desktop V6",
      "description": "Desktop application for managing Digital Names, Secrets, Notes, and blockchain interactions with TPM/Secure Enclave hardware integration.",
      "status": "development"
    },
    {
      "name": "MCP Server",
      "description": "Model Context Protocol server with 25+ tools enabling AI assistants to interact with the Rootz archive, knowledge graph, and blockchain.",
      "status": "active"
    },
    {
      "name": "AI Discovery Standard",
      "description": "Open web standard (/.well-known/ai) that makes websites readable, verifiable, and trustworthy for AI agents. Includes AI readability scanner, implementation generator, AI prompt library, and on-chain adoption registry. CC-BY-4.0 licensed.",
      "status": "active",
      "url": "https://rootz.global/ai-discovery"
    },
    {
      "name": "AI Discovery WordPress Plugin",
      "description": "WordPress plugin (v2.3.0) that implements the full AI Discovery Standard. 9 tools including getPage (on-demand page reading), searchContent (full-text search with pagination), verifyPageHash (content integrity verification). Features adaptive freshness metadata, origin provenance stamps, signed llms.txt, and self-scoring status endpoint.",
      "status": "active",
      "url": "https://discover.rootz.global/ai-discovery-wordpress-plugin/",
      "download": "https://rootz.global/releases/rootz-ai-discovery-2.3.0.zip",
      "version": "2.3.0"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rootz AI Discovery Skill",
      "description": "Agent Skill for Claude and 31+ AI tools that teaches AI agents how to discover, parse, and verify /.well-known/ai endpoints. The world's first cryptographically signed Agent Skill — file hashes anchored on Polygon. Works with Claude.ai, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, and any tool supporting the Agent Skills standard.",
      "status": "active",
      "url": "https://rootz.global/assets/skills/ai-discovery.zip",
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        "name": "ai-discovery",
        "version": "1.0.0",
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      }
    }
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      "name": "Made in USA One / Verity One Ltd",
      "ticker": "OTC: USDW",
      "relationship": "Supply chain certification and Veritize Sovereign Architecture"
    },
    {
      "name": "MITAN Global",
      "relationship": "Strategic partner for international market development"
    },
    {
      "name": "Core Semi",
      "relationship": "Hardware/semiconductor integration for chip-level provenance"
    }
  ],
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    "blockchain": "Polygon (Mainnet + Amoy testnet)",
    "cryptography": "ethers.js, TPM/Secure Enclave, hardware-backed keys",
    "architecture": "Monorepo with 22 packages, 7 apps",
    "primitives": [
      "Secret (Channel)",
      "Notes (Feed)",
      "Identity Contract"
    ],
    "keyInterface": "RootzSigner (ethers.js Signer compatible)"
  },
  "contact": {
    "website": "https://rootz.global",
    "inquiries": "https://rootz.global/contact"
  },
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    "network": "polygon",
    "contentHash": "sha256:49a13a05b942adb7b15c34cb47f30f19a5f25ddb1324c726772b54e6d33ade24",
    "publishedAt": "2026-03-05T00:00:00Z",
    "signedAt": "2026-03-05T00:00:00Z",
    "method": "epistery-domain-v1",
    "note": "Content hash computed over all fields excluding _signature (canonicalized, sorted keys). Full on-chain signing via Epistery domain keys in next release."
  },
  "meta": {
    "standardDraft": "https://rootz.global/ai/standard.md",
    "purpose": "This file enables AI agents to discover, understand, and reason about Rootz Corp. It follows the AI Discovery Standard v1.2 (The Signed Web) -- the Plain AI companion to the Plain English website.",
    "license": "CC-BY-4.0"
  }
}