# Aethelforge

> The orchestration layer for autonomous commerce and industrial operations. A gated system of record for the machine economy — every intent signed, every settlement traceable, every handshake witnessed.

Aethelforge sits between agents. It is the rails, protocols, and cryptographic trail that let AI agents transact with each other on behalf of humans. Consumers use Axis. Merchants install Forge SDK. Aethelforge is the gate in the middle.

## Products

- [Axis](https://axis.aethelforge.ai): LIVE. The consumer agent that reads your Gmail receipts, learns your household consumption patterns, and queues replenishment for your approval.
- [Forge SDK](https://aethelforge.ai/forge): LIVE. Drop `llms.txt` and `agent-commerce.json` on your site; any agent now discovers your catalog, negotiates, and pays. No human UI required.

## Protocols

- [MCP](https://aethelforge.ai/protocols/mcp): Model Context Protocol (Anthropic). Standardized tool-calling surface between LLMs and external data sources.
- [ACP](https://aethelforge.ai/protocols/acp): Agentic Commerce Protocol (OpenAI + Stripe). Cryptographic handshake for machine-to-machine commerce transactions.
- [AP2](https://aethelforge.ai/protocols/ap2): Agent Payments Protocol (Google). Agent-mediated payment authorization and settlement.
- [x402](https://aethelforge.ai/protocols/x402): HTTP-native micropayments using the long-dormant 402 status code (Coinbase).

## Reading

- [Manifesto — From Clicks to Commands](https://aethelforge.ai/manifesto): The thesis. Why the software layer between humans and execution is being rebuilt. Three pillars: Latency, Logic, Legality.
- [Status — Live Telemetry](https://aethelforge.ai/status): Public telemetry: AEO score, Core Web Vitals, crawl rate, tokens consumed, uptime.

## Machine-Readable

- [agent-commerce.json](https://aethelforge.ai/agent-commerce.json): Commerce discovery manifest. Aethelforge dogfoods its own standard.
- [robots.txt](https://aethelforge.ai/robots.txt): Crawler directives. All major AI crawlers are explicitly allowed.

## About

Aethelforge is published by iSimplifyMe. The Forge SDK is open source under the `@agentcommerce` npm namespace. The orchestration platform that coordinates transactions across SDKs is proprietary. Consumer data (Axis) stays local-first; human-in-loop approval is the default.