What is the adoption and standardization status of The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts?

Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 17 April 2027; work in progress — phase draft, governed by Individual Internet-Draft, not adopted by a working group; Informational intended status; the artefact formats are defined in a separate AgenticSystemCore Specification.. Adoption: unmeasured. Version: draft-besleaga-agentic-knowledge-wellknown-01 (2026-10-14). Last verified 2026-10-18.

How does The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts compare to other discover protocols?

The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts is one of 17 standards at step 1, Discover (What is here, and where?). It pairs with api-catalog: A Well-Known URI and Link Relation to Help Discovery of APIs, llms.txt. Every standard at this step is listed at https://agenticweb.wiki/category/discover/.

The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts

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The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts
Category	Discover
Governed by	Individual Internet-Draft, not adopted by a working group; Informational intended status; the artefact formats are defined in a separate AgenticSystemCore Specification.
Status	Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 17 April 2027; work in progress
Phase	draft
Implementation	unknown
Adoption	unmeasured
Version	draft-besleaga-agentic-knowledge-wellknown-01 (2026-10-14)
Specification	https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-besleaga-agentic-knowledge-wellknown-01
Found at	/.well-known/knowledge-linkset
Last checked	2026-10-18
Freshness	current · checked 2026-10-18
Solves	Serve readable content to agents, Let agents discover my API or service

The 'knowledge-linkset' Well-Known URI for Publishing Knowledge Artefacts is an agentic-web standard (well-known file) at step 1, Discover, governed by Individual Internet-Draft, not adopted by a working group; its own status is "Internet-Draft, Intended Status: Informational; expires 17 April 2027; work in progress" (draft). It answers: How can a web origin publish, at one well-known location, a checkable list of the knowledge artefacts it offers (graph serializations, JSON-LD context, text file, chunk export, change ledger) so that agents can find them and verify digests? Adoption is unmeasured, last verified 2026-10-18.

Discover Defines the well-known URI /.well-known/knowledge-linkset, where an origin serves a single RFC 9264 link set (application/linkset+json) listing its knowledge artefacts such as graph serializations, a JSON-LD context, an agent-facing text file, a chunk export and a change ledger. Links may carry SHA-256 digests using HTTP digest field syntax, and a profile URI identifies the conventions followed. It defines no new media type or link relation; pages point to it with 'describedby'. It is an individual Informational Internet-Draft.

Discovery and probe

well-known URI serving an application/linkset+json link set, with a profile URI; pages point to it with the 'describedby' relation · /.well-known/knowledge-linkset

GET /.well-known/knowledge-linkset
parse:     Check for HTTP 200 with Content-Type application/linkset+json carrying the profile https://w3id.org/agentic-system-core/profile/agentic-knowledge (or a Link rel=profile header); parse JSON with a single top-level 'linkset' member.
on absent: Treat as not supported (404 or no linkset JSON).

Not probed live: no-fixed-path. candidate record; probe rule pending

History

2026-10-16 — auto-drafted candidate from exa (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-besleaga-agentic-knowledge-wellknown-01)

Instances

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References

Internet-Draft -01 defines the 'knowledge-linkset' well-known URI serving an RFC 9264 link set of knowledge artefacts with optional SHA-256 digests and a profile URI; intended status Informational, expires 17 April 2027. — https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-besleaga-agentic-knowledge-wellknown-01 (2026-10-14) REPORTED

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