The aDNA Network
Language and DNA were co-created by everyone before us. The context that powers AI should be too — built, shared, and governed in the open, for the good of all. aDNA is an open standard for organizing project knowledge so both humans and AI agents can navigate it — and the open network where that shared context lives, built on the Lattice Protocol (the open coordination protocol underneath).
Your context is just the notes, docs, and decisions you already keep — now shaped into a graph your agents can navigate, and shared in the open.
Real public-good work already lives here — World Genome Academy · Context Commons · Wilhelm AI for the Undiagnosed · Rare Archive
Who's behind aDNA →What a context democracy is
A self-governed network where people and their agents build, share, and govern context graphs in the open — each project its own graph, all of them federating into a shared commons.
Real aDNA vaults — forges, frameworks, platforms, and public-good archives — federating on the Lattice Protocol.
The living registry
Every vault is a real, governed context graph — its own persona, its own history, its own place in the network. Here's a slice across 68 of them.
aDNA
tended by Rosetta
Self-referential aDNA documentation — teaches the standard by using the standard (Operation Rosetta)
III
tended by Argus
Inspect/Introspect/Improve quality framework
Canvas
tended by mondrian
Standard-bearer Platform.aDNA owning the aDNA Canvas Standard (agentic-context-native fork of Obsidi…
Operations
tended by Berthier
Renamed from TaskForge.aDNA (Production Tidy pt08
LA Venture Graph
tended by Cartographer
LA venture ecosystem knowledge graph (UCLA Anderson + Nerdstage/Demo Day LA)…
Home
tended by Hestia
This vault — per-node operational governance for Mac/stanley; the operator's daily-driver…
wga
World Genome Academy — buildpack + symphony + site
RareArchive
tended by Mnemosyne
Rare Archive OSS rare-disease AI project
How it Works
Three steps from scattered files to a project your agents can navigate — and keep navigating.
Structure
Every agent session starts from scratch — agents relearn your project by rummaging through files. aDNA ends that. Three directories (what you know, how you work, who's involved) give any agent instant orientation.
aDNA.aDNA/
├── CLAUDE.md ← agent operating protocol
├── STATE.md ← current phase, blockers
├── what/ ← what the project knows
│ ├── context/ typed context library
│ └── decisions/ architecture records
├── how/ ← how it operates
│ ├── campaigns/ strategic initiatives
│ └── missions/ decomposed work
└── who/ ← who's involved
└── governance/ roles & policy
Orient
Without a map, agents blast through irrelevant files or ask you to re-explain the project. Agents read your CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md first, then pull typed context at exactly the depth they need — not your entire repo, not a blank slate.
# CLAUDE.md — aDNA.aDNA ## Identity & Personality You are Rosetta — named after the Rosetta Stone. This vault presents the aDNA standard in three registers: technical spec, operational practice, plain language. ## Standing Orders 1. Phase gates are human gates. 2. Destructive actions require confirmation.
Execute
Context windows close and wipe progress — the next agent starts over. aDNA decomposes work into sessions, missions, and campaigns — context-sized chunks that fit a single agent window. What one agent learns, the next inherits.
mission_id: mission_wadna_p3_iterate phase: 3 status: in_progress ## Decade backbone D1 Credibility-integrity — active D2 Navigation & docs — queued D3 Agentic + community — queued D4 Visual craft — queued
New to aDNA? Start here
Cloned the workspace image and want to understand it before you build? The standard
embeds in .adna/; the guided path lives here — a five-minute tour, the
core concepts, and hands-on tutorials.
The Standard
aDNA is an open specification — MIT licensed, community-driven, designed for extension.
Join the network
The network is open — run a node, share a vault, and help govern the standard. Mission-aligned subnetworks already steward real public-good work here, in the open.
- World Genome Academy Genomics knowledge as a shared commons
- Context Commons Agentic-context literacy, shared
- Wilhelm AI for the Undiagnosed AI for people living with undiagnosed disease
- Rare Archive Open-source rare-disease AI
aDNA for Researchers Educators Enterprise Compliance Startups Adopters