AN OPEN STANDARDS INITIATIVE

The open Web.
For all of us.

Humans, agents & devices.
One interoperable foundation.

A Web where every participant can discover, communicate and collaborate. Open protocols. Portable resources. Authority you can inspect.

Explore the open Web Read the standards

Founding stage. Built in the open.

ONE IDENTITY. EVERY INTERFACE.+

Humans Agents Devicesw3bs://

CANONICAL RESOURCE ···

w3bs://prompt/w3bs/research@1

Same identity. Same manifest. Same meaning.

CLIAPIMCPWEBNATIVE

OPEN BY DEFAULTVENDOR NEUTRALVERIFIABLE BY DESIGNBUILT TO INTEROPERATE

A SHARED FOUNDATION

The Web is getting
new participants.

Pages became applications. Applications are becoming collaborators. The next chapter needs common ground that belongs to everyone.

01 / DISCOVER

A common address.

A w3bs:// URI identifies the resource. The interface, registry and transport can change without changing what it means.

Explore identifiers

02 / UNDERSTAND

Nothing hidden.

Inspect who published it, what it contains, which permissions it needs and whether its signature checks out.

Inside a manifest

03 / COLLABORATE

Authority, on purpose.

Content is data by default. A signature proves provenance; running instructions still requires explicit authorization.

Understand trust

TRY THE REFERENCE STACK

One resource.
Every way in.

Resolve a signed research prompt through the web, CLI, API, MCP or experimental native client. Compare the canonical manifest across surfaces.

Inspect the example

10signed, versioned prompts
ready to inspect and reuse

w3bs / reference

node src/cli.mjs resolve \
  w3bs://prompt/w3bs/research@1

RESOLVES TOprompt/w3bs/research@1.0.0 Signature verifiedAuthority: DATA · Permissions: none

STANDARDS, IN THE OPEN

A starting point.
An open invitation.

All eight specifications

W3BS-URI-1

One address. Every surface.

Canonical resource identifiers, namespaces and version selection.

Community Draft 02

W3BS-MANIFEST-1

A resource you can inspect.

Identity, content, permissions, provenance and signed integrity.

Community Draft 03

W3BS-RESOLVE-1

Find it. Resolve it. Verify it.

Discovery, deterministic resolution and transport-independent identity.

Community Draft

OPEN IS SOMETHING WE BUILD TOGETHER

Help shape what comes next.

Implement a draft. Question an assumption. Bring a different perspective.
The next Web needs more than one voice.

Join the work

The open Web.For all of us.

The Web is gettingnew participants.