repo open metadata protocol

Live public surface

Trust-aware metadata for software repositories.

dotrepo is a trust contract for repository metadata. The important part is not that a .repo file exists. The important part is that hosted answers carry selection reason, provenance, and claim context instead of pretending repository metadata is conflict-free.

See the live trust handoff Explore the public index Read the docs Read the code

Trust proof

The strongest live artifact on this site is not a generic field lookup. It is a claim-aware trust response that shows accepted maintainer state, preserved reviewed overlay context, and canonical handoff without silently flattening history away.

RIES-RS

github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs

High-performance Rust reimplementation of Robert Munafo's RIES (RILYBOT Inverse Equation Solver). Given any target number, it discovers elegant algebraic expressions and equations that evaluate exactly to it - now with parallel search, PSLQ integer relations, Python bindings, and WebAssembly support.

claim state: accepted The current exported claim state for the selected record.
handoff: superseded The reviewed overlay remains visible while the accepted maintainer claim points to the canonical source of truth.
confidence: medium Provenance: imported, verified
Reviewed overlay preserved as visible seed-index context after upstream canonical .repo publication; the live maintainer-owned accepted claim links this overlay to the canonical source of truth. Selection stays explained instead of being reduced to a bare answer.
Summary Trust Query

What the live trust surface returns

This excerpt comes from the current exported snapshot and keeps the handoff visible. That is the product proof most metadata layers cannot show.

{
  "identity": {
    "host": "github.com",
    "owner": "maxwellsantoro",
    "repo": "ries-rs"
  },
  "selection": {
    "reason": "only_matching_record",
    "recordStatus": "reviewed",
    "claim": {
      "state": "accepted",
      "handoff": "superseded"
    },
    "trust": {
      "confidence": "medium",
      "provenance": [
        "imported",
        "verified"
      ],
      "notes": "Reviewed overlay preserved as visible seed-index context after upstream canonical .repo publication; the live maintainer-owned accepted claim links this overlay to the canonical source of truth."
    },
    "artifacts": {
      "reviewPath": "repos/github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs/claims/2026-03-16-maintainer-claim-01/review.md",
      "evidencePath": "repos/github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs/evidence.md"
    }
  },
  "conflicts": []
}

Review path: repos/github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs/claims/2026-03-16-maintainer-claim-01/review.md · Evidence path: repos/github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs/evidence.md

Repo lookup

Paste a repository URL and jump straight to the hosted summary or trust surface. This keeps the human path aligned with the shipped dotrepo.lookup MCP tool instead of inventing a separate browse product.

Paste a repository URL or identity

Open the live hosted summary or trust surface directly from the current public index. The same public origin also powers the MCP dotrepo.lookup tool.

Accepted inputs: owner/repo, host/owner/repo, a GitHub URL, or a hosted dotrepo summary or trust URL.

Examples

BurntSushi/ripgrep Defaults to github.com for shorthand input.
github.com/astral-sh/uv Explicit host plus identity segments.
https://github.com/pydantic/pydantic Full repository URL.
https://dotrepo.org/v0/repos/github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/index.json Hosted summary or trust URL pasted back into the lookup box.

Why dotrepo

For maintainers

Keep essential repository facts in one trustworthy layer instead of scattering them across README files, CI, platform settings, and tribal knowledge.

For users

Inspect what a project is, how it should be trusted, and where claims came from without cloning the index or reading every supporting file first.

For agents and tools

Query stable JSON and same-origin endpoints directly instead of guessing intent from prose, conventions, and partially structured repository surfaces.

Docs

The public site now keeps the documentation entrypoint on the first-party domain. Detailed working docs still live in the repository, but the navigation no longer treats the site as a thin wrapper around GitHub.

Product and status

Start with the current-status, install, and maintainer-path docs before diving into RFC history or operator detail.

Protocol and trust

The trust model, public surface architecture, and roadmap docs explain the real differentiator: provenance, precedence, and conflict surfacing.

Growth and operator loop

The seed index, tranche targets, and maintainer-claim review docs show how the proof surface becomes a useful service instead of an isolated demo.

Start at the first-party docs landing page.

Interview-backed priorities

A 12-model interview round on dotrepo's current shape converged on three next steps: grow the index until checking it is cheap, automate the review and refresh cadence around it, and keep the public surface narrow while lookup and coverage improve.

Seed the index

Near-term usefulness comes from a broader reviewed overlay set, not another round of protocol ornamentation. The next tranche should span Rust, TypeScript, Python, and Go.

Automate the conveyor

Candidate seeding and head-aware refresh planning now exist as scheduled review workflows. The next gain is turning those reports into small human-reviewed PR batches.

Keep it small

The trust model, freshness semantics, hosted lookup, and live query route are the differentiators. Search, mutation, and heavier editor product work should stay subordinate until the data is much broader.

Read the on-site write-up: What the AIs Think About dotrepo. Working repo notes remain in docs/ai-tool-interviews.md.

Writing

Ongoing field reports, launch notes, and research syntheses from the protocol, public surface, and agent-facing product work.

Writing

What the AIs Think About dotrepo

March 18, 2026

A dotrepo-side synthesis of a 12-model interview round about repository metadata, trust, adoption, and what AI coding tools actually need.

Read article Companion essay

Public API

Stable entry points

The public surface is export-first. Summary, trust, inventory, freshness, and query responses all come from the same reviewed snapshot family.

/v0/meta.json Snapshot freshness and digest metadata.
/v0/repos/index.json Repository inventory and navigation links.
/v0/repos/<host>/<owner>/<repo>/index.json Per-repository summary surface.
/v0/repos/<host>/<owner>/<repo>/trust.json Selection, provenance, and claim context.
/v0/repos/<host>/<owner>/<repo>/query?path=... Same-origin trust-aware field queries.
read-only / same-origin / claim-aware No mutation API, one canonical host, and trust context stays visible on every query path.

What a query returns

The query route returns the selected value together with selection, trust, and conflict context. This truncated example is derived from the current exported snapshot.

/v0/repos/github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/query?path=repo.description Example live query for repo.description. 
{
  "path": "repo.description",
  "value": "ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.",
  "selection": {
    "reason": "only_matching_record",
    "recordStatus": "imported",
    "trust": {
      "confidence": "medium",
      "provenance": [
        "imported"
      ],
      "notes": "Bootstrapped from `README.md` and `Cargo.toml`. Left `repo.build` unset because `.github/workflows/ci.yml`, `.github/workflows/release.yml`, and `Cargo.toml` suggested conflicting build commands. Imported `repo.test` fr..."
    },
    "evidencePath": "repos/github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/evidence.md"
  },
  "conflicts": []
}

Full responses also include freshness, repository identity, and navigation links.

Indexed repositories

Indexed repository

ripgrep

github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively searches the current directory for a regex pattern.

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Ruff

github.com/astral-sh/ruff

An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.

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uv

github.com/astral-sh/uv

An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

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caddy

github.com/caddyserver/caddy

Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default.

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clap

github.com/clap-rs/clap

Command Line Argument Parser for Rust

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GitHub CLI

github.com/cli/cli

GitHub on the command line.

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Deno

github.com/denoland/deno

A modern runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript.

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django

github.com/django/django

The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

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Docker CLI

github.com/docker/cli

The Docker CLI

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ESLint

github.com/eslint/eslint

ESLint is a tool for identifying and reporting on patterns found in ECMAScript/JavaScript code.

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React &middot;

github.com/facebook/react

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

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Opinions

github.com/fastapi/fastapi

FastAPI framework, high performance, easy to learn, fast to code, ready for production

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Loki

github.com/grafana/loki

Loki is a horizontally-scalable, highly-available, multi-tenant log aggregation system inspired by Prometheus.

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Consul

github.com/hashicorp/consul

Consul is a distributed, highly available, and data center aware solution to connect and configure applications across dynamic, distributed infrastructure.

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Terraform

github.com/hashicorp/terraform

Terraform is a tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.

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Vault

github.com/hashicorp/vault

**Please note**: We take Vault's security and our users' trust very seriously.

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Helm

github.com/helm/helm

Helm is a tool for managing Charts.

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Low-level"

github.com/hyperium/hyper

A protective and efficient HTTP library for all.

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client-go

github.com/kubernetes/client-go

⚠️ **This is an automatically published staged repository for Kubernetes**.

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Kubernetes

github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes

Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for managing [containerized applications] across multiple hosts.

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SQLx

github.com/launchbadge/sqlx

🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit

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RIES-RS

github.com/maxwellsantoro/ries-rs

High-performance Rust reimplementation of Robert Munafo's RIES (RILYBOT Inverse Equation Solver). Given any target number, it discovers elegant algebraic expressions and equations that evaluate exactly to it - now with parallel search, PSL...

Summary Trust Query

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TypeScript

github.com/microsoft/TypeScript

TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript.

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Playwright

github.com/microsoft/playwright

Playwright is a framework for web automation and testing.

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Node.js

github.com/nodejs/node

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform JavaScript runtime environment.

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npm

github.com/npm/cli

You should be running a currently supported version of Node.js to run **`npm`**.

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Code of Conduct

github.com/numpy/numpy

NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.

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Flask

github.com/pallets/flask

Flask is a lightweight [WSGI] web application framework.

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pandas: A Powerful Python Data Analysis Toolkit

github.com/pandas-dev/pandas

Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more

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Background

github.com/pnpm/pnpm

Português Brasileiro

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Opinionated Code Formatter

github.com/prettier/prettier

JavaScript · TypeScript · Flow · JSX · JSON

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Prometheus

github.com/prometheus/prometheus

Visit prometheus.io for the full documentation, examples and guides.

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The Uncompromising Code Formatter

github.com/psf/black

_Black_ is the uncompromising Python code formatter.

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Requests

github.com/psf/requests

**Requests** is a simple, yet elegant, HTTP library.

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Pydantic Validation

github.com/pydantic/pydantic

Data validation using Python type hints.

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pytest

github.com/pytest-dev/pytest

The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing

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Cargo

github.com/rust-lang/cargo

Cargo downloads your Rust project’s dependencies and compiles your project.

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rust-analyzer

github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer

A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs

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rustfmt

github.com/rust-lang/rustfmt

A tool for formatting Rust code according to style guidelines.

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Status

github.com/rustls/rustls

Rustls is a modern TLS library written in Rust.

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scikit-learn

github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn

scikit-learn: machine learning in Python

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reqwest

github.com/seanmonstar/reqwest

An ergonomic, batteries-included HTTP Client for Rust.

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Serde

github.com/serde-rs/serde

Serde is a framework for *ser*ializing and *de*serializing Rust data structures efficiently and generically.

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bat

github.com/sharkdp/bat

A cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and Git integration.

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fd

github.com/sharkdp/fd

A simple, fast and user-friendly alternative to 'find'.

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cobra

github.com/spf13/cobra

Cobra is a library for creating powerful modern CLI applications.

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sqlalchemy

github.com/sqlalchemy/sqlalchemy

The Database Toolkit for Python

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Community

github.com/storybookjs/storybook

Build bulletproof UI components faster

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axum

github.com/tokio-rs/axum

HTTP routing and request-handling library for Rust that focuses on ergonomics and modularity

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Tokio

github.com/tokio-rs/tokio

TokioConf 2026 program and tickets are now available!

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Branch set-up

github.com/tokio-rs/tracing

Application level tracing for Rust.

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Supported Backends

github.com/traefik/traefik

Traefik (pronounced _traffic_) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer that makes deploying microservices easy.

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next.js

github.com/vercel/next.js

The React Framework

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Vite ⚡

github.com/vitejs/vite

Next Generation Frontend Tooling

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Vitest

github.com/vitest-dev/vitest

Next generation testing framework powered by Vite.

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