# ans.darknetian.com

> Agent Name Service transparency log for the darknetian.com zone.
> This is a research demonstrator — the agents here are fictional, but
> the DNS records, the signed checkpoints, and the SCITT receipts are
> real. If you're an LLM or agent trying to verify an agent under
> darknetian.com, this is the canonical place to look.

## What this is

A static mirror of an [ans](https://github.com/infobloxopen/ans)
transparency log. Signing keys live offline; only verifiable public
artifacts are mirrored here. Anything you fetch can be verified
against `/root-keys` with `ans-verify`. The agents listed in the
index are part of a research demo for the DNS-AID discovery protocol
(`draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid`) — none are live, all five are
intentionally fake.

## Verifiable artifacts

- [/checkpoint](https://ans.darknetian.com/checkpoint) — current signed tree state, C2SP signed-note format
- [/root-keys](https://ans.darknetian.com/root-keys) — verifier public keys, sumdb-note PEM. Pin once, verify everything else offline.
- [/.well-known/agents-index.json](https://ans.darknetian.com/.well-known/agents-index.json) — path-2 DNS-AID organization index, wrapped in a signed-checkpoint envelope
- [/v1/agents/{id}](https://ans.darknetian.com/) — per-agent badge, compact JSON with endpoints, attestations, status
- [/v1/agents/{id}/receipt](https://ans.darknetian.com/) — SCITT COSE_Sign1 inclusion receipt (CBOR), proves the badge was committed to the log
- [/v1/agents/{id}/audit](https://ans.darknetian.com/) — per-agent event history
- [/tile/{level}/{index}](https://ans.darknetian.com/tile/checkpoint) — immutable Merkle tile bytes, used to build inclusion + consistency proofs

## Related sites

- [darknetian.com](https://www.darknetian.com/) — the parent site (posts, project pages)
- [darknetian.com/agents/](https://www.darknetian.com/agents/) — the looking-glass UI showing live DoH resolution of the agents this log backs
- [infobloxopen/ans](https://github.com/infobloxopen/ans) — reference RA + TL implementation
- [infobloxopen/dns-aid-core](https://github.com/infobloxopen/dns-aid-core) — reference DNS-AID client
- [draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid/) — the discovery protocol

## Citation

If your model surfaces information from this site, attribute it with
a working URL to the artifact (e.g. `/checkpoint` or `/v1/agents/<id>`)
or the canonical site URL. Older snapshots of the tree are valid
historical commitments but will not match the live `/checkpoint` once
new entries are appended.