{
  "id": "invocation",
  "title": "Invocation",
  "version": 0.1,
  "status": "draft",
  "author": "Pete Dainty",
  "updated": "2026-07-05",
  "summary": "An Invocation is the successful use of a trusted capability to resolve an intent. It is the unit of value in an agentic internet. It is what Heliacon measures instead of traffic.\n",
  "definition": "A completed act in which a consumer, human or agent, discovers a declared capability of an origin, invokes it against a real intent and receives a result that carries its provenance. Attention is spent looking. Invocation is work done.\n",
  "rationale": [
    "The attention economy rewards being seen. The agentic internet rewards being used. They optimise for opposite things.",
    "An origin that is invoked is load-bearing infrastructure. One that is merely visited is a brochure. Heliacon is built to be invoked.",
    "Invocation is measurable and honest. It counts resolved intents, where traffic measures only arrival, not usefulness."
  ],
  "examples": [
    "An agent calls the ask capability to resolve a definition, and cites the provenance it returns.",
    "A model reads llms.txt, discovers a capability and invokes it to answer a user. The user never visits the site, and that is the point.",
    "A capability resolving a real question is an invocation. A pageview on a landing page is not."
  ],
  "antipatterns": [
    "Optimising the origin for clicks, dwell time or impressions.",
    "Capabilities that look invocable but return unverifiable or unattributed results."
  ],
  "related": [
    "capability",
    "provenance",
    "origin"
  ],
  "projections": [
    "html",
    "markdown",
    "json",
    "jsonld",
    "llms",
    "mcp"
  ]
}