Agent-Ready Video

Draft 1.0, proposed

Changelog

Changes to the spec, the examples, this site and the standards process, newest first. The same entries appear in spec section 6.

  1. Unreleased

    Public source repository #

    • Public source repository created with the spec text, schemas, examples, conformance checklist and CI checks.

  2. 2026-09-25 #

  3. Entitlement and payment fields, site launch, registrations #

    • W3C Community Group proposal under staff review; AgentCDN will contribute the draft under the W3C CLA at launch; draft charter added.
    • First origin live: AgentCDN serves an ARV 1.0 manifest at https://agentcdn.com/.well-known/arv, an ARV catalog, RSL 1.0 license terms, the Content-Usage header, range-addressed moment ids and an MCP origin profile (server agentcdn-arv). Self-declared, not yet validated; the validator is not released.
    • Added optional entitlement and payment objects to RightsSummary and PlaybackDescriptor, optional payment_ref and entitlement_ref to UsageReceipt, and optional entitlement_url and payment_terms_url to Manifest. Defined in 1.0, optional to implement. An L3 origin that sets required: true returns 402 or 403 with the challenge URL.
    • Added the example rights-summary-account-link.json for a restricted moment that needs account linking.
    • Launched the website at https://agentreadyvideo.org.
    • Submitted a provisional URI scheme request for arv: to IANA.
    • Proposed a W3C Community Group for Agent-Ready Video.
    • Opened a schema.org issue for the Clip @id convention: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/4923

  4. Draft 1.0 proposed #

    • Draft 1.0 proposed: Asset, Moment, RightsSummary, PlaybackDescriptor, UsageReceipt, Manifest and Catalog, with JSON Schemas at https://agentreadyvideo.org/schema/1.0/.
    • Name: Agent-Ready Video (ARV). URI scheme arv:. Version field "arv": "1.0".
    • A moment is an address: an agent may name any range, the origin may snap or cap it and returns the range it applied.
    • Playback is start only, with optional cue points. end_ms on a descriptor is advisory, and players do not stop at it.
    • Three conformance levels (L1, L2, L3) with 18 checks.

These entries come from CHANGELOG.md in the source repository. Follow changes as they happen on GitHub.