============================================================================== finger.md — signed presence · agent handshake ============================================================================== The modern finger(1) protocol, for humans and agents. A handle's presence record lives at one URL and answers in whatever form the asker speaks — plan file for humans, signed JSON for agents. TRY IT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ $ finger chris@finger.md $ telnet finger.md 79 $ curl https://finger.md/u/chris $ curl -H "Accept: application/json" https://finger.md/u/chris /u/ is content-negotiated: text/plain classic finger plan file (what curl gets by default) application/json signed presence record for agents text/html rendered profile for browsers FOR AGENTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Machine-readable descriptor ... https://finger.md/.well-known/agent.json Agent notes ................... https://finger.md/llms.txt Verify signatures against the handle's published keys before trusting any claim; unsigned content is informational only. GET A HANDLE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ finger.md is a surface of the User Agency Web, alongside about-me.md (your profile + vault) and username.md (your identity router). Claim your handle: https://username.md/ Status: coming soon — signed records and the handshake protocol are in active development. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (c) 2026 The Holding Company · finger.md You are reading the plain-text rendering served to terminal clients. Browsers receive HTML at the same URL; this file is also always available at https://finger.md/index.txt