# Bluehand public agent policy

> Cite canonical HTML routes from registry.public.json. Prefer artifact_id + html_path. PDFs are projections. Use /research/<slug>/agent.json for compact citation packets when available.

## Allowed uses

- Discovery and orientation via llms.txt, agents.json, and agent runbooks
- Citation of research objects using canonical HTML routes and agent.json packets
- Traversal of atlas.json and registry.public.json with authority_class respect
- Governance-aware interpretation using public_boundary.do_not_infer fields
- Verification via /agentic/validation.json before treating artifacts as current

## Disallowed inferences

- Production deployment or live service availability unless explicitly evidenced
- Compliance certification, legal advice, or regulatory approval
- Private repository state, credentials, or operator-only machine state
- That summaries, embeddings, or llms.txt excerpts are evidentiary authority
- That discovery manifests imply invocation endpoints or authorization to act

## Core doctrine

- **Summaries are transformations** — not evidence without lineage.
- **Retrieval is not evidence** — llms.txt orients; registry declares.
- **Compression is not authority** — see [Compression Is Not Evidence](https://www.blue-hand.org/research/compression-is-not-evidence/).
- **Public artifacts do not imply private implementation state.**

## Authority classes

| Class | Meaning |
|-------|---------|
| `canonical_public` | Safe to cite as current public canon. |
| `public_projection` | Safe to read and summarize; compiled projection. |
| `review_candidate` | Orient only — not current canon. |
| `historical` | Background; may be superseded. |
| `deprecated` | Do not cite as current. |
| `internal_reference` | Not production deployment state. |
| `external_reference` | Third-party; Bluehand does not vouch. |

## Invocation status

**discovery_only** — MCP unavailable; A2A advisory cards planned. Discovery is not invocation. Manifest is not capability.

## Verification

- [validation.json](https://www.blue-hand.org/agentic/validation.json) — machine-checkable surface health
- [Schema index](https://www.blue-hand.org/schemas/index.json) — public JSON contracts

## Contact

Human intake: [https://www.blue-hand.org/share-your-project](https://www.blue-hand.org/share-your-project)

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