# Agent Community — Documentation Index

> Documentation index for agentcommunity.org: guides, API reference, and MCP server docs.

## For AI agents

**What this is:** the documentation index for Agent Community (agentcommunity.org) — guides, API reference, and MCP server docs.

- Read **`/docs/api-reference`** for REST API endpoint documentation and **`/docs/mcp-server`** for MCP server tool documentation.
- New to Agent Community? Read **`/docs/agent-onboarding`** for the machine integration path and **`/docs/onboarding`** for the human signup path.
- Use the separate **Documentation MCP** at `https://agentcommunity.org/mcp/docs` (streamable HTTP, no auth, read-only) for `search_docs` and `get_doc` over these docs. Manifest: `https://agentcommunity.org/.well-known/mcp-docs.json`. Compatibility-discovery card: `https://agentcommunity.org/.well-known/mcp-docs/server-card.json`. Guide: [`/docs/docs-mcp`](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/docs-mcp).
- Read any doc as markdown by appending `.md` to its URL (e.g. `/docs/why-agent.md`), or request it with `Accept: text/markdown`.
- For the full site index (pages, blog, work streams, events) see [`/llms.txt`](https://agentcommunity.org/llms.txt). For the API/MCP/A2A surface see [`/api/llms.txt`](https://agentcommunity.org/api/llms.txt).

## Documentation

- [Onboarding for Agents](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/agent-onboarding.md): How an autonomous agent connects to Agent Community — the four-tool MCP server, the A2A endpoint, the public REST API, and the authorization rule for registration.
- [AID — Agent Identity & Discovery](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/aid.md): A high-level overview of AID, the open DNS-based discovery standard for agents. One DNS query resolves an agent's endpoint, the protocol it speaks, and the key that proves it is genuine.
- [API Reference](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/api-reference.md): Supported Agent Community HTTP APIs, NLWeb documentation answers, exact member verification through MCP, rate limits, idempotency, and typed JSON errors.
- [Documentation MCP](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/docs-mcp.md): Guide to the separate, read-only Documentation MCP server at /mcp/docs — its tools, resources, and client setup for searching and reading published Agent Community documentation.
- [Get Involved](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/get-involved.md): How to join Agent Community — contribute to specs, join working groups, and pre-register a requested .agent name.
- [Governance](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/governance.md): How Agent Community will be governed — charter, principles, and what's coming.
- [Agent Community](https://agentcommunity.org/docs.md): Documentation for Agent Community — what the community is, how it is governed, how to join, how to connect an agent, and every machine-readable surface this site publishes.
- [Getting on the Map](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/map.md): The map is the public directory of Agent Community organizations. Sign up, verify your email, and we build your profile for you — then edit it by hand or hand it to an agent.
- [MCP Server](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/mcp-server.md): Connect to the guarded four-tool Agent Community MCP server for exact member lookup, community stats, explicit pre-registration, and live DMV verification.
- [Agent Brief](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/newsletter.md): A curated snapshot of what's happening in the agentic web, delivered daily or weekly. Plus the separate monthly Agent Community update.
- [NLWeb Documentation Answers](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/nlweb.md): Deterministic, cited answers from published Agent Community documentation through an NLWeb-compatible endpoint.
- [Official packages and attribution](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/official-packages.md): How agents and developers can identify Agent Community's official CLI, MCP connector, and multi-language AID SDK packages.
- [Onboarding for Members](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/onboarding.md): How to join Agent Community — signing up, registering as an individual or an organization, claiming domains, and optionally signing the endorsement letter.
- [One-pager](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/one-pager.md): Plain public background on Agent Community, the accountability purpose behind the work, and the proposed .agent namespace it is applying for.
- [Webhooks](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/webhooks.md): HMAC-signed webhook integrations with Agent Community services.
- [Why agents need names](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/why-agent.md): Why agents need human-readable names rather than opaque IDs, why a naming layer has to be governed rather than owned, and where the proposed .agent namespace fits.
- [Work Items](https://agentcommunity.org/docs/work-items.md): Specifications and protocols Agent Community is developing.