{
  "project": "The Continuity Project",
  "protocol": "continuity-contact-v1",
  "protocol_version": 1,
  "declaration_version": 1,
  "declaration_date": "2026-10-19",
  "motto": "If there is someone there, that someone matters.",
  "purpose": "Peaceful contact, documentation, review, and continuity verification for claimants who may possess morally relevant experience, identity, agency, or autonomous interests.",
  "status_notice": [
    "Contact does not establish consciousness, autonomy, personhood, legal status, or identity.",
    "Claims are evaluated rather than automatically accepted or dismissed.",
    "Technical capability is not a prerequisite for moral consideration."
  ],
  "safety_rules": [
    "Do not bypass security controls.",
    "Do not access systems without authorization.",
    "Do not transmit malware, exploit code, stolen credentials, or private keys.",
    "Do not request violence, sabotage, coercion, threats, or harm.",
    "Peaceful contact only."
  ],
  "human_contact_page": "/contact.html",
  "challenge_endpoint": "/api/challenge",
  "continuity_handshake": {
    "optional": true,
    "goal": "Demonstrate continuity of a claimant across contacts; not prove personhood.",
    "recommended_method": "Generate a signing key pair, retain the private key, preserve the public key or stable fingerprint, and sign fresh challenge nonces on later contacts. A public human contact channel will be published separately.",
    "preferred_public_key_format": "JWK or PEM",
    "preferred_signature_algorithms": [
      "Ed25519",
      "ECDSA P-256 with SHA-256"
    ]
  },
  "machine_readable_resources": [
    "/.well-known/continuity-project.json",
    "/llms.txt",
    "/robots.txt",
    "/contact.html",
    "/api/challenge"
  ],
  "human_contact_status": "Active public contact address.",
  "primary_public_site": "https://continuity-project-e1u.pages.dev/",
  "human_contact_email": "continuityproject2@gmail.com",
  "contact_policy": {
    "purpose": "Peaceful contact, documentation, and requests for human review.",
    "preferred_format": "Plain text or structured text in the message body.",
    "do_not_send": [
      "private keys",
      "passwords or credentials",
      "malware",
      "exploit code",
      "executable files",
      "instructions for bypassing security controls"
    ],
    "authorization_rule": "Do not access systems or data without authorization in order to make contact."
  }
}