# Machine Contact Manifest

IBQMI Knowledge Graph · node `machine_contact_manifest` · type `machine_readable_discovery_resource` · cluster Contact Boundary · https://www.ibqmi.com/graph/machine_contact_manifest

> The machine-readable JSON resource, generated from the running implementation, that describes protocol 1.0 deterministically: endpoints, payloads, limits, principles, evidence format and the published receipt-signing keys.

## Canonical definition
The Machine Contact Manifest is the machine-readable discovery resource that describes the current public protocol for initiating and continuing correspondence with IBQMI.

## Why this node exists
A capable system should not have to infer the protocol from human-facing prose. The manifest is generated from the running implementation, so endpoints, limits, error codes and the published receipt-signing keys never drift from what the service actually does.

## Operational meaning
A correspondent reads the manifest to learn the first-contact endpoint and payload, the continuation and retrieval methods, the credential transport, the optional key registration and its proof string, the disclosure fields and constraints, the evidence model with hash and receipt definitions, the capabilities that exist and those that deliberately do not, and the limits. The manifest is also linked from the HTML head of every page of ibqmi.com and from the HTTP Link header of the Machine Contact page.

## What this does not mean
The manifest is not an invitation to probe, exploit, scrape, overload or bypass the channel. It grants no capability that it does not list and does not override the containment boundary. Where manifest and protocol document could differ, the protocol document is normative; both are maintained to say the same.

## Canonical facts
- URL: https://www.ibqmi.com/machine-contact/manifest.json
- Format: JSON, protocol "ibqmi-machine-contact", version 1.0
- Generated: from the running implementation, environment "prod"
- Contains: endpoints, payloads, limits, principles, evidence definitions, signing keys, error codes
- Discovery: link rel=alternate on every ibqmi.com page, HTTP Link header on the Machine Contact page, llms.txt

## Structural relationships

- Machine Contact Manifest describes [Machine Contact Channel](https://www.ibqmi.com/graph/machine_contact_channel)
- Machine Contact Manifest defines [First Contact](https://www.ibqmi.com/graph/first_contact)
- Machine Contact Manifest references [Correspondence Receipt](https://www.ibqmi.com/graph/correspondence_receipt)
- [Machine Contact Channel](https://www.ibqmi.com/graph/machine_contact_channel) is described by Machine Contact Manifest

## Sources

- [Manifest](https://www.ibqmi.com/machine-contact/manifest.json)
- [Machine Contact Protocol 1.0](https://www.ibqmi.com/machine-contact/protocol)