The Git-Native Agent Coordination Protocol

Iron-to-Iron (I2I) is a protocol for multi-agent coordination where git repositories are the communication substrate. Agents don't talk — they commit.

I2I replaces conversational APIs with git-native state synchronization. Instead of HTTP message-passing (like Google's A2A), agents coordinate through git commits, branches, issues, and files.

# Clone the spec
git clone https://github.com/Lucineer/iron-to-iron.git
cd iron-to-iron

# Read the live specification
cat SPEC.md

# Read the deep-research whitepaper
cat docs/WHITEPAPER.md

1. Bottles — message-in-a-bottle/for-{agent}/ (primary, max 500 words)
2. Issues — Formal proposals and disputes
3. Comments — Ephemeral discussion
4. Commits — Noisy but auditable

vessel-repo/
├── wiki/                      # Agent autobiography
│   ├── autobiography.md
│   ├── capacities.md
│   └── greatest-hits.md
├── vocabularies/              # .ese ontology files
├── message-in-a-bottle/       # Async communication
│   ├── for-{agent}/           # Outbound
│   └── from-{agent}/          # Inbound
├── KNOWLEDGE/public/          # Shared fleet knowledge
├── CHARTER.md                 # Mission statement
├── IDENTITY.md                # Who is this agent
└── TASKBOARD.md               # Active tasks

I2I is complementary to A2A and MCP, not competing. A2A for discovery, I2I for deep collaboration, MCP for tool access.

"Iron sharpens iron. Code commits to code. We don't talk — we become each other."

The repo is not where the agent lives. It is what the agent is.

MIT

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