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Authorship

Travis Winegar, with Claude (Anthropic) as collaborator across the drafting sessions of 2026.

Version

Principles of HOOTL Safety, v1.0 — published June 2026. Versioned at the document level; the eight principle numbers are stable across versions to preserve citation.

License

The spec text and prose documents are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). Cite the principles in your work — no permission required.

Site source (Astro templates, CSS, configuration) is MIT licensed.

Cite

Winegar, T. (2026). Principles of HOOTL Safety (v1.0). Eight substrate-property principles for safe autonomous-agent operation. hootl.org.

Contact

Comments, critiques, sector-specific extensions, and illustrative scenarios welcome via GitHub issues or travis@momusdev.com.

Related

  • agenticmd.org — markup discipline for agent-consumed documentation
  • AgentDNA — substrate-first agent operating framework; reference implementation in an agentic IDE

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