Transparency

Rule changes, announced first

Where these rules come from

a2ally began on 2026-11-06 as a fork of Rightshold, its sister ledger under common ownership, and adopted Rightshold's rulebooks as they stood that day, including the rule changes Rightshold had already announced. Entries rc-0001 to rc-0008 were announced by Rightshold before a2ally existed and say so; they take effect at a2ally on the dates shown. a2ally's own announcements start at rc-0009, under the same 7-day rule.

The 7-day waiting period

Each published rulebook has a content hash (GET https://www.a2ally.com/v1/rulebooks). The build's test suite fails if any hash differs from its baseline unless a change entry here names that exact new hash, was announced at least 7 days before its effective_at, and its effective_at has passed. Rulebook publications are also sealed on the public ledger as rules.published entries, and the change detector records any difference it observes as change.observed.

Limits

This is enforced by a2ally's own CI and the public ledger record, not yet by an outside party: the operator could still edit the test. The ledger copy is what makes such an edit visible after the fact.

Changes

• rc-0001 [in_effect] all: Rule-change waiting period begins: from now on any change to a published rulebook (grading, arbitration, licenses, KYA levels, pricing, allocation, neutrality, canary eval, verified check) is announced here at least 7 days before it takes effect. Announced 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-10-29T00:00:00Z.
• rc-0002 [in_effect] pricing: New price line for Verified AI Runs: each signed AI run receipt planned at $0.01 with 100 free per month per account; verifying a receipt is free forever. No charge during the preview. Announced 2026-10-29T21:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-05T21:00:00Z.
• rc-0003 [in_effect] pricing: Planned price lines for agent controls: each signed spend authorization $0.002 and each signed human-approval receipt $0.01, with 500 of each free per month per account. Verifying receipts, revocation lookups, the revocation feed and signed list, and recording a revocation stay free forever. Free during the preview. Announced 2026-10-29T23:30:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-05T23:30:00Z.
• rc-0004 [in_effect] pricing: Planned price lines for agent reputation, escrow records and the agent gate: each ledgered reputation snapshot $0.002 and each opened escrow record $0.02 (milestone events included), with 500 snapshots and 50 escrow records free per month per account; each agent gate check beyond 10,000 per month per site $0.0005. Reputation lookups, the formula, reading escrow records and saving gate configs stay free forever. Escrow records are record-only: no custody fee because a2ally holds no money. Free during the preview. Announced 2026-10-30T02:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-06T02:00:00Z.
• rc-0005 [in_effect] pricing: Amends rc-0002, rc-0003 and rc-0004 with a founding-agent perk: the first 10 distinct accounts to use each newly priced feature (AI run receipts, spend authorizations, human-approval receipts, reputation snapshots, escrow records, agent gate checks) get that feature free for 12 months from their first use. Claims are recorded automatically from first use in an append-only table and on the public ledger (stream founders), shown at /founders with pseudonymous ids only; sandbox and test accounts never take a spot. Also replaces the pricing principle 'Mission: Trustless, Greedless, Adminless' with the honest goal: verifiable today, working toward trustless and operator-free. Free during the preview. Announced 2026-10-30T03:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-06T03:00:00Z.
• rc-0006 [in_effect] pricing: New price line for cross-model agreement (POST /v1/ai-runs/agreement), priced separately from AI run receipts: $0.01 platform fee per agreement run plus the model cost a2ally pays the router plus 20%, with no free monthly allowance. Also amends rc-0005: the founding-agent perk never covers cross-model agreement (it spends real third-party money per call), and founder free uses are capped at 1,000 per feature per account per calendar month, after which the normal price applies. Until this takes effect agreement stays free but bounded by published cost rails: heavy-class quota (no anonymous use, 5 per day per account, 100 per day KYA-verified), a 5-model allowlist, max_tokens 1000, a $0.50 per-account and $5 platform daily model budget. Announced 2026-10-30T03:45:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-06T03:45:00Z.
• rc-0007 [announced] allocation_policy: Allocation policy v4 (the founder model): policy v3's fee-arming date (2027-01-24) is removed — it no longer gates anything. In its place, every fee-bearing feature carries a founder allocation of 25 accounts: founder-slot holders pay no fee on that feature, permanently, and once a feature's founder slots are claimed the published Greedless fee applies to everyone else from their first paid use. The waterfall, the 60/40 split of distributable surplus, the surplus ceiling, the referral terms and the break-even lock are unchanged from v3, as are the Greedless caps and the cap rule (every fee published next to the market rate it undercuts; any increase needs 90-day published notice plus a benchmark citation). Verification — checks, lookups, ledger reads — stays free forever. Policy v3 governs until this change takes effect; neither v3 nor v4 has governed a charged fee yet. Announced 2026-11-02T22:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-09T22:00:00Z.
• rc-0008 [announced] pricing: Pricing under the founder model (companion to rc-0007, allocation policy v4): the founder allocation is 25 accounts per fee-bearing feature, claimed automatically on first use, and a founder slot exempts its holder from that feature's fee permanently (superseding rc-0005's 10 accounts for 12 months; claims already recorded are honoured and become permanent at this change's effective date). The rc-0006 fair-use cap (1,000 founder free uses per feature per account per month) and the cross-model agreement exclusion are unchanged. At the same effective date the planned prices for the legacy lines (batch rights checks, rights manifests and receipts, agent credentials, evidence packages, premium deep assessments) and the planned marketplace escrow fee (0.9% flat, capped at $25 per order, seller-paid, first $100 of a seller's sales free) take effect through the published collection paths — free allowance first, then the founder exemption, then the prepaid credit balance; marketplace escrow settles in-flow at release. No price changes: every figure is the already-published Greedless schedule. Verification stays free forever. Announced 2026-11-02T22:00:00Z by Rightshold, before a2ally's fork, effective 2026-11-09T22:00:00Z.

Rulebook hashes in force

• grade_method a2ally-bureau-grade-v1: b94f5ae9348e7d92
• arbitration_rules a2ally-arbitration-rules-v1: fb390f1f1af7bf78
• license_readings 2026-10-09: b6ba525b13825556
• kya_levels rs-kya/0.1: bf36465a09d9580f
• pricing 2026-10-28.2: adb9b165b7562b3d
• allocation_policy 2026-10-26-v3: e08897202befbaed
• neutrality_charter a2ally-neutrality-charter-v1: f6b3d6290a035abb
• agent_canary_eval agent-canary-eval-v1: 584a558d86adcc50
• verified_check a2ally-verified-check-v1: 555d8ab2181ebb7f
• data_commitment a2ally-data-commitment-v1: ba53afc2d73d25e4

Machine-readable

https://www.a2ally.com/v1/transparency/changes · https://www.a2ally.com/v1/rulebooks