Protocol / AIVS
AIVS is a small, signed, machine-readable record that tells an AI agent what a product is and how to use it — before any negotiation, escrow, or settlement happens.
Discovery, identity, and capability collapse into a single structured entry instead of a human-only landing page.
Definition block
AIVS is an open, versioned metadata specification that describes a product in a form an autonomous agent can actually consume — identity, category, capabilities, agent endpoints, pricing intent, and signed provenance.
It sits at the top of the trust stack: nothing else in the protocol has to guess what a product is, because AIVS has already said so.
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VisibilityA site publishes a single AIVS manifest at a known path. Agents stop crawling blog posts and hero copy to guess what a product actually is.
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VisibilityThe manifest declares what the product does, who it is for, which actions it supports, and how to reach the agent surface — in fields, not paragraphs.
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VisibilityAIVS uses durable IDs so the same product reads consistently across directories, marketplaces, and downstream agent indexes.
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VisibilityEntries can be signed, letting consumers verify that the visibility record came from the party that actually owns the product.
Protocol outcome
AIVS makes products legible to agents before the first handshake.
