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The open-record format

How entries are shaped, addressed, and linked, so anyone can read or re-derive one.

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Every entry on the open record is an entity with a stable identifier, a type, and links to the entities it depends on. The format is deliberately plain: a record you cannot read is not an open record.

Properties of an entry

Stable identifier

Each entity has an identifier that never changes, so a link made today resolves the same way later.

Typed and linked

An entry declares its type and the entities it references, so the whole shape can be walked.

Append-only

Entries are added, never quietly edited; corrections are themselves recorded.