{
  "id": "origin",
  "title": "Origin",
  "version": 0.1,
  "status": "draft",
  "author": "Pete Dainty",
  "updated": "2026-07-05",
  "summary": "An Origin is the canonical source of an organisation's identity, knowledge, capability and trust. It is the single thing every other representation derives from.\n",
  "definition": "A durable, addressable, versioned source of truth that publishes a negotiable identity rather than a website. One canonical object, from which humans, software and agents each obtain the projection they can consume.\n",
  "rationale": [
    "The web made the browser the privileged consumer. The agentic internet has many consumers, each with different capabilities.",
    "If the human page and the machine data drift apart, trust erodes. A single origin keeps every projection consistent by construction.",
    "Provenance, versioning and canonical addressing are properties of the origin, so every projection inherits them for free."
  ],
  "examples": [
    "heliacon.com serves HTML to a browser, JSON-LD to a crawler and an MCP manifest to an agent, all rendered from the same origin.yaml and corpus.",
    "An origin declares its definitions, capabilities and provenance once. Its site, its docs, its llms.txt and its API are all projections of it."
  ],
  "antipatterns": [
    "A marketing homepage with a separate, outdated API and a bolted on llms.txt.",
    "Treating the browser render as canonical and generating the machine formats as an afterthought."
  ],
  "related": [
    "projection",
    "provenance",
    "capability",
    "sovereignty"
  ],
  "projections": [
    "html",
    "markdown",
    "json",
    "jsonld",
    "llms",
    "mcp"
  ]
}