AXL / COMMUNITY

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Community-first AXL Protocol. Discussions is where we work in the open.

Discussions go-live status: staged, awaiting setup

The Discussions venue at github.com/axlprotocol/community is staged but not yet executed. Once Diego runs the setup script, you can post and reply directly under any of the six categories below.

Until then, this page describes the venue, the categories, the governance, and the engagement primer so you know what to expect when it opens.

Why one repo plays host

GitHub Discussions are repo-scoped. There is no org-level Discussions surface, so one repository has to play host. The decision is to host on a new public repository, axlprotocol/community, dedicated to community infrastructure. It carries the Code of Conduct, the contributing guide, the moderation policy, and Discussions itself. It has no release artifacts. It is permanently public. It is the one URL we hand to a new contributor.

The implementation reference (axl-core) and the website repository stay focused on code and content. Discussion threads do not conflate with code reviews or website edits. Research repositories at dcarranza-axl/axl-research and axlprotocol/axl-research remain private during the v4.0.1 productization gate.

The six categories

Each category has a fixed format that constrains what can be posted. Click "Post here" to land directly in that category once Discussions is live.

Announcements

Announcement

Official project announcements from the maintainers. Releases, governance decisions, methodology corrections, working group updates. Read-only for top-level posts.

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RFCs

Q&A

Formal proposals for spec changes. Each RFC is a discussion thread. Two-week minimum comment window. Reference implementation and reproducible evidence required for spec changes affecting wire format or measured claims.

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Q&A

Q&A

Questions about using AXL: the spec, the CLI, the MCP servers, the hosted compressor, the evidence brief. Anyone can ask. Anyone can answer. The accepted answer marks the resolution.

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Working Groups

Open

Coordination space for the five working groups: WG-Spec, WG-Evidence, WG-Implementations, WG-Adoption, WG-Governance. Agendas, minutes, roster changes, cross-WG coordination.

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Show & Tell

Open

Projects, demos, experiments, research notes, blog posts built on or around AXL. First-person posts about something you made, ran, or wrote. Link the artifact.

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Polls

Poll

Maintainer-run advisory polls on community-visible decisions. Polls inform decisions; the TSC or the relevant working group still makes the call. Minimum seven-day open window.

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Governance

Three documents govern the venue. All three become live links once axlprotocol/community is published.

Code of Conduct Contributor Covenant 2.1. Sets the floor for participation. Enforcement ladder: correction, warning, temporary ban, permanent ban. Moderation Policy When to lock, hide, or delete. Escalation path. Triage permissions. Record-keeping. Soft patterns vs CoC enforcement. How RFCs Work Title format RFC-NNNN: name, required sections (motivation, design, alternatives, drawbacks, unresolved questions, prior art), two-week minimum window, promotion path.

The 48-hour public correction commitment that earned this project its credibility applies to everyone who participates here, including the maintainers.

Recent activity

Recent activity will appear here once Discussions go live.

A staged fetch script (scripts/fetch-discussions.sh) populates this widget on a 30-minute cadence once cron is wired post-launch.

    Get started

    1. Step 1 Read the pinned Welcome thread in Announcements. It frames the pivot, the categories, the rules of engagement, and the v4.0.1 status.
    2. Step 2 Read your category's pinned how-to. Each category has one: how to ask a good question (Q&A), how to file an RFC (RFCs), the working groups roster (Working Groups), and the polls charter (Polls).
    3. Step 3 Post. Be direct. Cite measurements. Disagreement on technical questions is expected. Personal attacks are not.

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