The Protocol Institute

Inventing New Nature

Defining the Protocol Institute's research mission

Introducing the Protocol Institute

Building a field and community to steward the planetary-scale process of protocolization

Protocol Reader - Summer of Protocols

The Protocol Reader The Protocol Reader is an 358-page book (currently only available as an epub) comprising 26 foundational essays by 31 authors from the Summer of Protocols program, carefully edited and sequenced to introduce you to the fascinating new discipline of Protocol Studies. It can serve as

Dangerous Protocols - Summer of Protocols

Protocols are frequently touted as the liberating alternative to walled technological gardens, but the historical purpose of protocols has always been to simplify decision-making and reduce human agency. How do we reconcile these two narratives? I explore the dangerous side of protocols, and how their ability to drive coordination means they also have

Challenges: Trivial, Grand, and Whitehead

Introducing the Protocol Institute Challenges program

Why a New Protocol? The History and Future of AT Protocol - AT Protocol

Bluesky CTO Paul Frazee and Head of Protocol Daniel Holmgren join for a wide-ranging conversation about what atproto is, why it exists, how it got built, and where it's going next. From a Twitter consultancy to an IETF working group, this is where to get started.

Protocols for Publishers Showcase · Luma

Protocols for Publishers is an event and workshop series that brings together publishers, developers, and researchers to explore open protocols for a…

Theorizing Protocolization II: Atomic Protocol Questions

Solving real coordination problems to discover the formal laws of protocols.

Lexicons - AT Protocol Docs - AT Protocol

A schema-driven interoperability framework

Protocol Labs

Protocol Labs is an innovation network driving breakthroughs in computing to push humanity forward.

AT Protocol

The AT Protocol is a protocol and set of open standards for decentralized publishing and distribution of self-authenticating data within the social web. It serves as the technical foundation of the Bluesky social network, originally developed as a reference implementation for the protocol, as well as an ecosystem of interoperable social applications and services collectively referred to as the ATmosphere.

The Unreasonable Sufficiency of Protocols | Summer of Protocols

DRAFT Version 0.99, March 6th, 2023

Glossary of terms - AT Protocol

A collection of terminology used in the AT Protocol and their definitions.