{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Dataset", "@id": "https://sourcebans.vudira.com/ai/experimental.json", "name": "Vudira SourceBans — Experimental protocol support", "description": "Which emerging AI / agentic-web protocols this site already speaks, and which ones we track but have not implemented yet. Stage reflects upstream maturity, not ours.", "url": "https://sourcebans.vudira.com/ai/experimental.json", "dateModified": "2026-09-07T10:45:47+00:00", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/", "maturity_legend": { "stable": "Standardized, production-safe, widely supported", "beta": "Vendor-implemented, spec stable enough, watch for changes", "alpha": "Early implementations exist, spec still shifting", "draft": "Published draft, no major implementer yet", "theory": "Research or concept only, no usable spec yet" }, "stable": [ { "name": "robots.txt", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/robots.txt" }, { "name": "Sitemap 0.9", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/sitemap.xml" }, { "name": "Schema.org JSON-LD", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/ai/schema.json, inline in " }, { "name": "FAQPage schema", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/ai/faq.json" }, { "name": "SpeakableSpecification", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "inline in " }, { "name": "RSS 2.0", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/feed.xml" }, { "name": "JSON Feed 1.1", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/ai/feed.json" }, { "name": "security.txt (RFC 9116)", "stage": "stable", "status": "implemented", "where": "/.well-known/security.txt" } ], "beta": [ { "name": "llms.txt", "stage": "beta", "status": "implemented", "where": "/llms.txt, /llms-full.txt, /llms-sk.txt", "upstream": "https://llmstxt.org", "notes": "No single standard body yet, but multiple AI vendors already parse it." }, { "name": "ai.txt / AI content permissions", "stage": "beta", "status": "implemented", "where": "/ai.txt, /.well-known/ai-license.json", "upstream": "https://spawning.ai", "notes": "Backed by Spawning; competing proposals exist." }, { "name": "Speculation Rules API", "stage": "beta", "status": "implemented", "where": "inline in ", "upstream": "https://wicg.github.io/nav-speculation/", "notes": "Chrome ships it, other browsers still evaluating." }, { "name": "IndexNow", "stage": "beta", "status": "implemented", "where": "/includes/ai/IndexNow.php", "upstream": "https://www.indexnow.org/", "notes": "Bing + Yandex adoption; Google still testing." }, { "name": "Schema Aggregation (Yoast 2026)", "stage": "beta", "status": "implemented", "where": "/ai/schema.json", "notes": "Yoast Premium introduced this in Feb 2026; we export the same pattern." } ], "alpha": [ { "name": "W3C AI Agent Protocol", "stage": "alpha", "status": "implemented", "where": "/.well-known/agent.json", "upstream": "https://www.w3.org/community/agent-protocol/", "notes": "Draft manifest format, still shifting. We publish what the current draft asks for." }, { "name": "WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol)", "stage": "alpha", "status": "implemented", "where": "/.well-known/webmcp.json", "notes": "Chrome 146+ experimental flag. Tool schema still changing." }, { "name": "AX (Agent Experience) identity handshake", "stage": "alpha", "status": "partial", "where": "rate limits + CORS advertised in agent.json", "notes": "No agreed-on handshake protocol yet; we expose the hooks an agent would need." }, { "name": "IAB CoMP (Content Monetization Protocol)", "stage": "alpha", "status": "tracked", "where": "not applicable — this site is free and non-commercial", "upstream": "https://iabtechlab.com", "notes": "Would gate AI scraping behind licensing. Not relevant for us." }, { "name": "Google UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)", "stage": "alpha", "status": "n/a", "notes": "E-commerce protocol. Not applicable — we sell nothing." }, { "name": "NLWeb", "stage": "alpha", "status": "tracked", "notes": "Conversational web layer over schema.org. Watching adoption." } ], "draft": [ { "name": "AP2 (Agent Payments Protocol)", "stage": "draft", "status": "not applicable", "notes": "Payment flows between agents. Not relevant to a free banlist." }, { "name": "C2PA content credentials", "stage": "draft", "status": "tracked", "upstream": "https://c2pa.org/", "notes": "Cryptographically signed content provenance. No user-generated media here, so low priority." }, { "name": "Post-Quantum Cryptography metadata", "stage": "draft", "status": "tracked", "notes": "TLS-layer concern primarily. Our hoster handles the transport." }, { "name": "ai-license.json (content licensing)", "stage": "draft", "status": "implemented", "where": "/.well-known/ai-license.json", "notes": "No single standard yet; we publish a best-guess structure that common parsers can read." } ], "theory": [ { "name": "Share of Model (SoM)", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Concept of measuring how often a brand is cited inside AI model outputs. No standard way to measure or advertise yet." }, { "name": "CIR (Crawl-to-Information Ratio)", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Ratio of bytes crawled to useful facts extracted. Design principle we follow (dense JSON endpoints), not a protocol to declare." }, { "name": "Citation honeypots", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Intentionally uncommon phrasings used to detect when AI systems are citing you. Interesting idea, we do not practice it." }, { "name": "Personal Memory Injection (PMI)", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Per-user context injection into LLM prompts. Not applicable for a public read-only data source." }, { "name": "Perception Drift monitoring", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Tracking how LLM summaries of your brand drift over time. No standard instrumentation yet." }, { "name": "Decision Traces", "stage": "theory", "notes": "Audit trails for autonomous agent decisions. Consumer-side concern." } ], "commitment": "We track upstream specs and roll out what reaches usable maturity. Alpha and draft entries are advertised so AI agents that speak the newer protocols can probe us without guessing.", "last_spec_review": "2026-04-22" }