The descriptor at /.well-known/openaffiliate.json (programs with pays,
link, window, attribution, hold_days, payout, approval, self), the four
calls (join with an OpenProfile.md, link with ?oa=code, read the ledger,
get paid to your own address), webhooks, discovery, what a directory
owes a merchant, and what is deliberately absent: no network in the
money, no tracking host, no application form, no exclusivity, no
impression payments. Landing page at /openaffiliate, registered in
DOC_SLUGS, NAV, sitemap and llms.txt. Reference implementation is
crawlproof.com/affiliate.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CDEiDss9RWYibtmxSk5Gr2
Co-authored-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>