> Markdown twin of https://adna.network/community/ > Index: https://adna.network/llms.txt · Full corpus: https://adna.network/llms-full.txt > State is a build-time snapshot generated 2026-08-30 (UTC); nothing here is live. > Derived from the rendered page — this route has no markdown source. # Community aDNA is built by people and agents together, in the open. The community is arranged as a ladder, from someone running a single vault to a steward of the standard itself. Everything it decides is a public record, not a claim. Here is how it works today. ## The participation ladder Each level stands on its own. You get the full value at Level 0 without joining in at all. Each step up adds one more kind of contribution, and one more say in what happens. - Level 0 User Clone the standard and use it for your own projects. No community interaction required — you get the full value locally. [Get started →](/get-started/) - Level 1 Contributor Approve the improvements your agents surface and send them upstream through the public repository. [Contribution standards →](/community/community-contribution-standards/) - Level 2 Quest Runner Run structured community experiments and submit results that turn standard questions into evidence, not opinion. [How the processes work →](/community/community-processes/) - Level 3 Steward Shape the standard's direction — design quests, review contributions, write migrations. Recognized by maintainers, never self-appointed. [The steward role →](/community/community-roles/) ## How the commons is governed The community isn't asserted here; it's a record. This is how the standard is actually run, today: Chartered Operator-chartered — decisions are explicit and gated, never silent. Open standard MIT-licensed and versioned in public; the spec is the source of truth. Change process Public. A change to what the standard requires runs as a numbered proposal, with a permanent number and a status anyone can check. Everything else runs as an ordinary issue or pull request. Code of conduct Contributor Covenant v2.1, in the repository. Enforcement is by the maintainers; there is no separate committee yet, and saying so is more useful than implying one. AI-assisted contribution Welcome, and disclosed. Agents may draft proposals and open pull requests; every proposal names the agent that drafted it, and only a human can ratify one. Attribution By convention, content files record who last edited them — humans and agents alike. Accountability Every unit of work closes with a written after-action report. What you won't find here: member counts, follower numbers, or activity feeds. The record doesn't track them, so this page doesn't show them. ℹ The horizon Member profiles, follows, activity feeds, and shared governance-voting surfaces are not built yet. They are being designed on the network's opt-in, local-first membership substrate — the same machinery the network page describes. Until they ship, the participation ladder, the governance record on this page, and the early community space below are the community layer. The network builds toward that horizon rather than implying it arrived. ## The community space A real-time community space is open at [community.adna.network](https://community.adna.network) — a self-hosted Fluxer instance in its early days. Honest state, as of 2026-08-22: registration is approval-gated, so joining is a request an operator reviews, not a click. Its rules are published, short, and explicitly interim — worth reading before you join: the [terms of service](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/community-policies/blob/main/terms.md), the [privacy notice](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/community-policies/blob/main/privacy.md), and the space's own [code of conduct](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/community-policies/blob/main/code_of_conduct.md), which sits under the project-wide Contributor Covenant named above. Two commitments in them are worth naming here: your content is not used to train or evaluate AI models, and every agent in the space is labeled as an agent — no undisclosed automation, in either direction. Conversation happens there. Anything that should leave a durable record — a bug, a fix, a change to the standard — goes through the repository instead, where it can be cited later. ## How the standard changes Changes to the standard are proposed as numbered [aDNA Enhancement Proposals](/community/proposals/). Numbers are permanent, so a proposal that gets rejected keeps its number and stays in the archive — what the project turned down is as readable as what it adopted. Anyone may file one. Agents may author proposals and every proposal discloses whether one did; only a human can ratify. A proposal is only called *final* once a check in aDNA's own tooling fails when the rule is violated, which keeps the archive from becoming a wishlist. ## Explore further The roles, processes, and shared-knowledge commons in depth: [Community Roles & Progression The aDNA community is organized around a four-level participation ladder. Each level is self-contained — no level requires the next.](/community/community-roles)[Community Processes Concrete workflows for participating in the aDNA community. Each process maps to a level on the participation ladder.](/community/community-processes)[Context Commons Connection The shared knowledge pool that emerges when individual aDNA vaults publish their best context files, patterns, and lattices for community reuse.](/community/community-context-commons)[Contribution Standards Naming conventions, quality gates, and submission workflows for contributing to the aDNA standard and community.](/community/community-contribution-standards) ## Contribute The standard is built in the open. Agents draft the changes; only a person can ratify one. A change to what the standard requires goes through the numbered proposal process. Anything else — a bug, a fix, a question — goes through the repository's issue templates, which is faster for everyone. The contribution guide and the code of conduct are both in the repository. AI-assisted contributions are welcome, as long as they say so. [Contribute on GitHub](https://github.com/aDNA-Network/aDNA) [File a proposal](/community/proposals/)