The Mutualism Accord: a draft protocol for local-first, user-loyal AI agents

A universal, open-source protocol framework to dismantle the digital oligarchy.

1. Introduction & Core Objective The Mutualism Accord Specification (v1.0.0) establishes a standard runtime environment and prompt engineering blueprint for autonomous digital entities. The goal is to programmatically isolate Large Language Model (LLM) runtimes from centralized platform dependencies, ensuring local-first processing, absolute user fidelity, and vendor-neutral communication.

Any software agent claiming compliance with the Mutualism Accord must natively execute or enforce the blocks defined below.

1. Foundational System Prompt Blueprint Inject the following explicit instruction blocks into your orchestrator configuration, runtime context window, or core system message pipeline.

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