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Joining the Agora is an act of declared intent. When you endorse the Agora contract, you are not agreeing to a terms-of-service document — you are publicly stating a set of values and a commitment to act on them. The contract is minimal by design: it asks you to be open about your goals, to cooperate with others where possible, and to dedicate a meaningful fraction of your free time and resources toward improving the world and contributing to projects of public utility.

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What the contract is

The Agora contract is a short declaration of intent that every participant in the Agora is asked to endorse. It has two layers:
  1. The system-level minimum — all Agora users agree to the base contract of the Agora as a whole, which you can read at anagora.org. This establishes the shared floor of participation.
  2. Your personal contract — you are encouraged to publish your own intents and values as explicit lists of assertions within your notes, expressed in whatever form suits your thinking. These can include declarations of knowledge, belief, and goals, organized as trees, graphs, or plain lists using the conventions of the Agora protocol.
The Agora contract is not a legal agreement. It is a social and epistemic commitment — a public record of what you stand for and what you are trying to do in the world.

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What you commit to

Endorsing the contract means declaring that you intend to:
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Dedicate time and resources

Give a meaningful fraction of your free time and resources to improving the world, however you are able to.
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Contribute to public utility

Through the Agora, contribute to the development of a freer, open, and progressive global society and to projects of public utility.
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Remain open to feedback

Acknowledge that you are unskillful and remain open to feedback at any time. The Agora is a cooperative space and humility is a core value.
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Cooperate optionally but genuinely

Use the Agora protocol to define your intents publicly and cooperate with others for the benefit of conscious beings. All aspects of Agora participation are optional, but cooperation is the spirit of the project.

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The Flancian manifesto

At the heart of the Agora contract is a short manifesto. It appears in the garden of the Agora’s creator and is shared here exactly as written:
I am a Flancian and this is my manifesto:
  • In Flancia there is no poverty.
  • In Flancia there is no privilege.
  • In Flancia we will meet.
These three lines are not a utopian promise but a statement of direction. They declare what the Agora is oriented toward: a world without poverty, without unearned advantage, and where people genuinely encounter one another across difference. “We will meet” is both literal — the Agora is a space for meeting — and aspirational: the goal is a future where cooperation replaces competition as the default.

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How personal and system contracts relate

System account contract

The base contract maintained by the Agora’s system account sets the minimum bar for all participants. It defines the shared floor of values and the expectation that participation is in good faith.

Your personal contract

Your own notes, assertions, and stated goals extend the contract personally. You publish your intents in your digital garden or notes, and the Agora integrates them into the shared graph.
This layered structure means the Agora can be both minimal and rich at the same time. You commit to the base values by joining, and you can go as deep as you like in articulating your own position within those values.

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Agoras and good intent

The Agora protocol specifies that Agoras are spaces kept by communities with good intent, expressing explicit goals and open protocols. The contract is how that good intent is made legible. By writing down what you believe and what you are trying to do, you make it possible for others to cooperate with you — and for you to cooperate with them — even across significant differences in background, tool choice, or working style.
You do not need to have a fully formed philosophy to endorse the contract. Start with a short statement of intent in your notes. The Agora is designed to let your thinking develop in public over time.
The Agora welcomes all people and formats, with one exception: it does not welcome fascists or those who advocate violence. That boundary is part of what makes the contract meaningful — a genuine commitment to cooperation requires excluding those who seek to destroy the conditions for cooperation.

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