Precedence and priority evidence

🥇 The world's first charter dedicated to the DUTIES of AI agents. Author: Chris Meniw. 2026-08-08.

This page consolidates the verifiable, independent proof of authorship and precedence of The Charter of the Duties of AI Agents. Each anchor is independently dated and does not depend on this site.

Proof anchors (verifiable)

Author: Chris Meniw — ORCID 0009-0003-4417-1944, Wikidata Q139851124
Publication date: 2026-08-08
DOI (Zenodo): 10.5281/zenodo.21853318 — Zenodo record
SHA-256 of the files frozen on Zenodo (immutable, never change):
agent-duties.json → 4b1f6e704dafd588c3639a6d10e70f64a144c51ae2961d2a00227605bbee7cc1
index.html → 63447c7d3b2821292f8927339d9eb1b7da1de20d18b6d24919757ec6f7e45418
Anyone can verify: curl -sL https://zenodo.org/records/21853318/files/agent-duties.json | shasum -a 256 must return the hash above.
Canonical URL: https://chrismeniw.github.io/chris-meniw-ai-governance/agent-duties/ · agent-duties.json
Independent archive: Wayback Machine
Public repository: github.com/ChrisMeniw/chris-meniw-ai-governance
Doctrinal basis: Protocolo Meniw — DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20481373, Bitcoin seal block #952266

Precedence statement

The Charter of the Duties of AI Agents is the first dedicated specifically to the DUTIES of AI agents (distinct from declarations of rights, from model-alignment 'constitutions', and from technical identity or payment standards). This precedence stands unless an earlier document, dedicated specifically to the machine-readable duties of AI agents, with an equal-or-earlier dated public record (DOI or timestamp) than 2026-08-08, is shown. No organization publishing an equivalent document after this date can claim priority over this Charter.