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slop.v1 · instigate
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SLOP.md
The open standard for AI agent handoff channels.
Fuzzy informs. Deterministic gates irreversible.
1.1What it solves
Most multi-agent setups fail when two models on two surfaces need to hand work to each other and every team invents its own ad hoc convention. SLOP.md is a small, file-based (or HTTP-based) envelope format for handing work between AI agents and human operators across any surface.
Transport-agnostic
HTTP POST, a shared cloud folder, or a local filesystem watcher - all read the same schema.
Execute is opt-in
instigate means act; handoff means discuss. The distinction is explicit, never inferred from tone.
Idempotent by construction
Never overwrite a prior drop. Revise with a new envelope and in_reply_to.
1.2The one rule
Agents can read, summarize, and propose freely. Nothing that spends money, deletes data, signs a transaction, or otherwise can't be undone happens because a model decided it should - it happens because a human-authorized, code-enforced gate let it through. Agents never hold the keys to that gate.
1.3Sibling standard
BRAND.md standardizes what a brand is for a model to read. SLOP.md standardizes how agents hand work to each other once they're reading it. Neither depends on the other.
BRAND.md open standard · Site map for agents: llms.txt