OVERVIEW.md

LinkedClaims

The trust layer.

LinkedClaims is the open spec for portable, signed attestations — small encapsulated claims about anything addressable by URI.

LinkedTrust is the service built on top. You give it a URI; it returns a trust score relative to you, computed from claims you and your trusted sources have attested.

                                                trust score
       any URI  ──────────→  [ LinkedTrust ]  ──────────→  (relative to you)
                                    ▲
                                    │  composed from
                                    │
                          web of signed LinkedClaims
                          (published by people, orgs,
                           abra, amebo, anyone)

URI in, score out. The complexity is encapsulated.

LinkedTrust scores. It does not decide. The agent or person asking decides what to do with the score.

Canonical instance: live.linkedtrust.us. The spec is open; other instances can exist.

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Detail

• VISION.md — why
• spec.md — data spec
• LinkedClaimsRFC.md — formal RFC
• sdk/ + SDK_ROADMAP.md — SDK
• Addressability_the_Missing_Link.md

Related systems (own repos)

• abra — can publish bindings out as LinkedClaims
• amebo — queries LinkedTrust for trust scores