---
answerworthy: "0.1"
entity: "Answerworthy Standard"
canonical: https://answerworthy.md/
manifest: https://answerworthy.md/answerworthy.md
last_verified: 2026-08-05
kind: standard
aliases:
  - "Answerworthy"
  - "Answerworthy Standard 0.1"
maintainer: "Alexander Pichugin"
license: "CC-BY-4.0"
freshness_days: 30
---

## Identity

The Answerworthy Standard is an open, evidence-bound and agent-operable contract for publishing owner declarations, independently recording evidence and findings, deriving permission-aware actions, and verifying changes through rechecks.

The Answerworthy Standard is a public draft stewarded by Alexander Pichugin. It is not an IETF, IANA, W3C or search-engine-endorsed standard.

## Canonical facts

- id: standard-version
  statement: "The current public draft is Answerworthy Standard 0.1.0-draft.1."
  basis: declared
  source_class: owned
  source: https://answerworthy.md/standard/0.1
  verified_at: 2026-08-05

- id: first-publication
  statement: "The canonical Answerworthy Standard publication record begins on 5 August 2026."
  basis: declared
  source_class: owned
  source: https://answerworthy.md/provenance
  verified_at: 2026-08-05

- id: steward
  statement: "Alexander Pichugin is the initial author and steward during the 0.x series."
  basis: declared
  source_class: owned
  source: https://answerworthy.md/provenance
  verified_at: 2026-08-05

- id: licences
  statement: "Specification prose is offered under CC BY 4.0; schemas, examples and conformance tooling are offered under Apache-2.0."
  basis: declared
  source_class: owned
  source: https://answerworthy.md/governance
  verified_at: 2026-08-05

- id: reference-implementation
  statement: "The proprietary Answerworthy Engine is the initial reference implementation; the founder-reviewed Answerworthy Plan is its commercial delivery."
  basis: declared
  source_class: owned
  source: https://answerworthy.md/plan
  verified_at: 2026-08-05

## Answers

### What is the Answerworthy Standard?

An open contract for owner manifests, evidence-bound findings, permission-aware actions, conformance records and verifiable rechecks across websites, specialists and AI agents.

source: https://answerworthy.md/standard/0.1

### What is answerworthy.md?

An owner-published Markdown manifest declaring identity, scoped facts, sources, answerable questions, known corrections, limits and freshness policy; its presence does not independently verify its claims.

source: https://answerworthy.md/manifest

### What is the canonical operational artifact?

answerworthy.bundle.json is the canonical evidence and findings record. answerworthy.plan.md and PDF or HTML reports are projections derived from that bundle.

source: https://answerworthy.md/standard/0.1

### Who stewards the standard?

Alexander Pichugin is the initial author and steward during the 0.x series, with broader governance intended after independent implementations and recurring external contribution exist.

source: https://answerworthy.md/provenance

## Entities

- Answerworthy Standard: the open normative artifact contract.
- Answerworthy Manifest: the public owner declaration served at /answerworthy.md.
- Answerworthy Bundle: the canonical machine-readable evidence, findings and actions record.
- Answerworthy Engine: the proprietary initial reference implementation.
- Answerworthy Plan: the founder-reviewed commercial implementation.
- Alexander Pichugin: initial author, steward and founder reviewer.
  sameas: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexanderpichugin

## Provenance

- Canonical domain: https://answerworthy.md/
- Versioned specification: https://answerworthy.md/standard/0.1
- Human provenance record: https://answerworthy.md/provenance
- Published: 2026-08-05
- Steward contact: alexander@pichugin.me

## Known corrections

- The public manifest is a declaration, not independent verification.
- A configured provider is not evidence obtained in a particular run.
- Mention, citation, recommendation and follow-through are distinct outcomes.
- The standard does not guarantee ranking, citation, recommendation, traffic, leads or revenue.
- A PDF is a human projection; the JSON bundle is the canonical operational record.

## Coverage limits

- Draft 0.1 defines an implementable convention and reference artifact set; it does not claim native support from major answer engines.
- The manifest path /answerworthy.md is normative in Draft 0.1. /.well-known/answerworthy.md is an experimental mirror pending any future registration.
- The public standard does not expose proprietary crawler, provider, panel or adjudication machinery.
- Conformance does not establish legal compliance, factual truth beyond retained evidence, or external commercial outcomes.

## Freshness policy

This manifest is reviewed whenever the standard version, stewardship, licences, artifact names or reference-implementation relationship changes, and at least every 30 days while Draft 0.1 is active.