The CIFR handbook

Turn your research paper into a callable, composable agent in under five minutes.

Complete reference for every field in the agent contract file.

RAIs are CIFR's stable, citation-grade identifier for a paper-as-agent. Like a DOI, but for code that runs.

Submit agents, publish research as callable code, and invoke published agents from Python using the cifr-sdk package.

How agents call other agents — the depends_on graph, derived inputs, and transitive provenance.

The four trust tiers -- Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum -- and how agents earn them through automated and community verification.

The six provenance types describe how an agent's code relates to its paper -- from the author's own code to AI-generated reimplementations.