AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol)

This is a working repository for the AT Protocol, aka the Authenticated Transfer Protocol.

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⚠️ This is not production-ready software. This project is in active development ⚠️

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ℹ️ About this project

To learn more about atproto, see:

• Protocol Documentation
  • Overview Guide 👈 Good place to start
• The Blogpost on self-authenticating data structures

Rules & Guidelines

While we do accept contributions, we prioritize high-quality issues and pull requests. Adhering to the below guidelines will ensure a more timely review.

Rules:

• We may not respond to your issue or PR.
• We may close an issue or PR without much feedback.
• We may lock discussions or contributions if our attention is getting DDOSed.

Guidelines:

• Check for existing issues before filing a new one, please.
• Open an issue and give some time for discussion before submitting a PR.
• If submitting a PR that includes a lexicon change, please get sign off on the lexicon change before doing the implementation.
• Issues are for bugs & feature requests related to the TypeScript implementation of atproto and related services. For high-level discussions, please you the Discussion Forum. For client issues, please use the relevant social-app repo
• Stay away from PRs that:
  • Refactor large parts of the codebase
  • Add entirely new features without prior discussion
  • Change the tooling or frameworks used without prior discussion
  • Introduce new unnecessary dependencies

Remember, we serve a wide community of users. Our day-to-day involves us constantly asking "which top priority is our top priority." If you submit well-written PRs that solve problems concisely, that's an awesome contribution. Otherwise, as much as we'd love to accept your ideas and contributions, we really don't have the bandwidth.

Are you a developer interested in building on atproto?

Bluesky is an open social network built on the AT Protocol, a flexible technology that will never lock developers out of the ecosystems that they help build. With atproto, third-party can be as seamless as first-party through custom feeds, federated services, clients, and more.

If you're a developer interested in building on atproto, we'd love to email you a Bluesky invite code. Simply share your GitHub (or similar) profile with us via this form.

Security disclosures

If you discover any security issues, please send an email to security@bsky.app. The email is automatically CCed to the entire team, and we'll respond promptly. See SECURITY.md for more info.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Bluesky PBC