# LAR — Institutional Identity & Context

**LAR Surface Version:** 0.1
**Canonical Manifest:** https://lar.md/.well-known/lar.json

## 1. Core Identity

- **Project:** Layered Agentic Retrieval (LAR)
- **Author:** Francesco Marinoni Moretto
- **ORCID:** 0009-0004-0096-4712
- **Primary Domain:** lar.md
- **Reference repository:** https://github.com/lar-spec/lar
- **Contact for agent operators:** francesco.marinoni.moretto@gmail.com

## 2. Context

*Note for agent: this section provides orientation, not a claim of standardisation.*

LAR is a proposed publisher-side architecture for agent-native web surfaces. It names a
convergence that operators are arriving at independently and offers a publisher-side conceptual
vocabulary for it. It is a working proposal at v0.1, not a settled standard, and it is offered to
the commons to be forked, renamed, reshaped, or absorbed into a better standard.

Where entity-declaration formats describe what an institution knows, LAR describes what an agent
can do at that institution: what is true right now, the action and the protocol it speaks, and a
way to verify the source before acting. It is complementary to knowledge-declaration work, not a
rival to it.

This site is itself a LAR surface. It is published as a minimal demonstration of the pattern it
documents, not as a production institutional surface.

## 3. Status & Open Questions

- This is v0.1, a draft proposal under active community refinement.
- The canonical filename (`/.well-known/lar.json`) is a working proposal under RFC 8615, open to revision.
- The attestation block is experimental.
- The working paper enumerates the project's own open questions and the conditions that would falsify the claim.

## 4. Pointers

- **Working paper:** https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21622424 (CC BY-SA 4.0) — open access, PDF and Markdown
- **Working paper, Markdown:** https://zenodo.org/records/21622425/files/layered-agentic-retrieval.md
- **Working paper on SSRN:** https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.6801118 (identical text)
- **Schema and worked examples:** https://github.com/lar-spec/lar (Apache-2.0)
- **Archived release:** https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20544009