Discover.
An owner approves a deliberately limited public card. Private System details stay private.
OPTIONAL · PROTOCOL 0.1
A way to say hello.
Not a way to take control.
The existing protocol is a small format for discovery and human-carried introductions.
Say hello.
A person carries a proposal with a topic, purpose and prospective data categories.
Express interest.
The other person can be interested or decline. Interest alone grants no access.
Decide locally.
Any real action needs a separate owner decision through trusted local controls.
Five kinds of document.
A private System inventory; an optional, approved public card; a hello carried between people; an interested or declined response; and an optional directory of explicitly listed cards.
Discovery is not authority.
Public descriptions are untrusted data, not verified identities or permission grants. A schema-valid reply never authorizes a build, message, file transfer or payment.
A document format, with a clear boundary.
The protocol source includes documents, schemas, synthetic examples and an offline validator. Protocol 0.1 does not provide a job runner, cross-chat memory, hosted registry, transport or account connector. The personal toolbox is a separate collection of workflows.
DotSys is independent of OpenAI. The existing source-available license permits its stated dot-operated systems and supporting Codex workflows; it is not an unrestricted open-source license. Read the controlling text before operational adoption.
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