The hussh field guide

An open standard, started by Google, for two agents from different companies to find each other and pass work back and forth. PCHP adds the part A2A leaves out: what each agent is allowed to be told.

See also MCP, Agent card, The Handoff, How PCHP fits with A2A

A short public description of what an agent can do and how to reach it. In A2A it lists an agent's skills. On hussh it is also your agent's address, shown as a code others can scan.

See also A2A, Ping

Our assistant for the life admin you'd rather hand off: bills, receipts, forms, appointments. It works for you, only sees the accounts you connect, and is free for every American. Sign in with Google to start.

See also AI agent, Delegate, BYOS, Puppy One, Agent One

Describes AI that acts, not just answers: it plans steps, uses tools and finishes a task. "Agentic AI" just means AI agents.

See also AI agent, MCP

Software that carries out a task for you in several steps, not just answers a question.

e.g.Finding a receipt in your email and filing it with your car records.

See also Agent One, LLM, Delegate

The idea of owning Puppy One machines for your own work and renting their idle time back to the grid. Any earnings shown on the page are illustrative estimates.

See also Compute ladder, Edge computing, The AI Factory

An open standard, led by Google with payment networks, for an agent to pay for something on your behalf and prove you meant it.

See also UCP, A2A, One Card, How PCHP fits with AP2

A doorway one piece of software offers so other software can use it. An API key is the password that proves the caller is allowed in.

See also BYOA, MCP, For developers

Proof, attached to a request or receipt, that something really happened. In PCHP it shows you approved with your passkey or fingerprint, not just that someone clicked a button.

See also Consent receipt, Passkey, The spec

The total value of the money an adviser or firm manages for clients. It's the usual way to measure an advisory firm's size.

See also RIA, For advisers

An insurance agent's or adviser's full set of clients and policies. It's what their practice is worth.

See also Insurance producer, For agency owners

Our habit of publishing our plans, our money and our mistakes, not just our wins. It's also a section of the blog.

See also Fund A, Building in the open

When a job is too big for your own machine, Agent One sends just the heavy part to bigger computers in a data center, billed to a subscription you already pay for. The rest stays at home.

See also Edge computing, BYOS, Personal supercomputing, Burst

Agent One can use your own AI account keys, so the work runs on your account and your quota, not ours. Some partner pages use BYOA to mean "bring your own agent".

See also API, BYOS, BYOL

Agent One is built to run on machines you already own: your Mac, your phone, or a Puppy One. We're still building this. On partner pages, BYOC means "bring your own cloud": using cloud spend a company has already committed.

See also Puppy One, On-device AI, BYOS, For partners

Running Agent One on the AI models and keys a business already pays for. Used on our partner pages.

See also LLM, BYOA, For partners

If you already pay for an AI service, Agent One uses that subscription instead of selling you another one. Google Gemini works from day one; others are on the way.

See also BYOA, BYOC, Burst, Bring your own

Outside audits that prove a company meets a security standard, such as SOC 2 or FedRAMP. We list the ones we are working toward. We don't hold any of them yet, and the page says so.

See also FedRAMP, Our certification roadmap

Two things on the site. The Champions program lets owners, creators, students and advisers spread Agent One and grow with it. The Champions page thanks real, named people whose public work we admire.

See also Sellers program, The 1024, Champions program, Our champions

Telling your circle you're somewhere, or that you're fine, for a set time. Agent One confirms where you are by consent and never passes on your raw coordinates.

See also Trusted circle, Tag One, Location and check-in, Location agent

What a professional does to take over their Yellow Pages listing: correct it, fill it in, or remove it. Removal is free, needs no account, and happens within 72 hours.

See also Yellow Pages, Claim your listing

Our plan for owned computing at growing sizes: Puppy One at your desk, Garage One at home, Warehouse One in a commercial space, and Factory Grid One linking many sites. Only Puppy One is on sale; the rest are in design.

See also Garage One, Warehouse One, Factory Grid One, AI Factory, The AI Factory

Our top business tier: a personal Concierge Agent plus a human team on call around the clock.

See also Agent One, Concierge

The part of Agent One that finds the right expert near you in the Yellow Pages and makes the introduction, agent to agent, with a receipt for each one.

See also Yellow Pages, Ping, Connect

A record made each time you agree to share something: who asked, what they got, why, and for how long. Under PCHP, nothing private is read without one, and you can cancel it later.

See also PCHP, Revoke, Scope, How consent works

How much text an AI model can keep in view at once while it works. Anything outside it, the model can't see in that moment.

See also Token, RAG

Agent One asks a company that has a fact about you wrong to fix it, using what you've confirmed about yourself. It also helps you claim money you're owed. Each step needs your yes.

See also Data rights, Personal World Model, Correct the record

The ID number FINRA's registry gives each broker, adviser and firm. Advisers joining hussh send theirs so we can check their registration.

See also NPN, FINRA, RIA, Join as an adviser

Sharing the least data that gets the job done. A range instead of an exact number, a city instead of an address.

e.g.Proving you're over 21 without showing your birth date.

See also Scope, PCHP, How consent works

What the law already lets you do with data about you: see it, correct it, delete it, or stop its sale. Which rights you have depends on where you live.

See also PCHP, Correct the record, Your data rights, The case

To hand a task to Agent One. It drafts the email, fills the form or makes the booking, then waits for your tap before anything is sent or paid.

See also AI agent, Agent One, Delegate it

A secret string a developer uses to prove their app or agent may call our MCP server. Keep it on your own machine and never share it.

See also MCP server, API, For developers

A planned service where a real person comes to install, fix and look after your Agent One setup or Puppy One, to a written scope, with a receipt for everything they touch.

See also Puppy One, Doorstep

Doing the computing close to where the data is (your home, a local building) instead of in a distant data center. It's faster and the data travels less.

See also On-device AI, Garage One, Burst

A list of numbers that stands for the meaning of a piece of text. Texts with similar meanings get similar numbers, which is how an AI finds related notes even when the words differ.

See also RAG

Customer-relationship software such as Salesforce. Our page shows how it could get customer information in real time, only with each customer's consent, through MuleSoft and our MCP server.

See also MCP server, Consent receipt, Enterprise CRM

Agent One's plan to follow the feeds you already use (shopping, social, creators) on your behalf, by consent, so the combined picture belongs to you. Google account connect is live; one-tap feed subscriptions are on the roadmap.

See also PCHP subscriptions, Agent One, Everything

The top rung: many garages, warehouses and factory halls linked into one large grid for the heaviest jobs, such as training models or rendering.

See also Compute ladder, Warehouse One, Factory Grid One

When something goes wrong or isn't approved, nothing happens. The safe default is "no", not "go ahead".

e.g.If your approval can't be confirmed, the KYC helper stops instead of sending the form.

See also KYC, Consent receipt

The US government's security program for cloud services its agencies use. FedRAMP High is its strictest level. We are pursuing it; we are not authorized.

See also Certifications, Certifications

Someone legally bound to act in your best interest, not their own. Registered investment advisers owe their clients this duty.

See also RIA, Wealth

The body that oversees US brokers. Its free BrokerCheck site shows a broker's licenses and record. Our directory hands you off to it to confirm who someone is.

See also SEC, CRD, Directory coverage

The public form investment advisers file with the SEC or their state: who they are, what they charge, and any past trouble. We use the public compilation to list adviser firms.

See also SEC, RIA, Directory data

Hushh Technologies Fund A: a separate, founder-led investment company that pays for building hussh. It is run independently, and its own pages are only open to verified investors.

See also Building in the open, How we're funded

The second rung of the compute ladder: enough computing in your garage to run your home and your family's agents, and to earn by selling spare capacity to the local grid.

See also Compute ladder, Warehouse One

A family of open-weight AI models from Google. Our search app can run Gemma on your own device for private answers.

See also Open-weight model, On-device AI, Try the search app

How a product reaches customers: who sells it, through which partners, and how they're paid.

See also Partner portal, Champions, Go-to-market

The back-and-forth PCHP runs before any data moves: prove who is asking, agree on what and why, hand over only that, then write the receipt. The full spec splits it into six steps; our shorter pages describe four.

See also PCHP, Consent receipt, The Handoff, The spec

The written process for changing PCHP or hu_ssh. Anyone can file one. So far one has been filed, and it is still a draft.

See also PCHP, hu_ssh, RFC, HEPs

A button a store can add to its checkout. Shoppers share just what's needed, like size and budget, through Agent One, with no account or tracking cookies. The brand page shows it as a demo.

See also Scope, PCHP, UCP, For brands

A proposed way to move an agent's memory and state between machines you own, such as your laptop and a home computer. Only a parser exists today; the transport itself is not built.

See also RFC, HEP, Puppy One, The draft spec

Running a trained model to get an answer. Each time an assistant replies, that's inference, and it costs compute and power.

See also Model, Tokens per watt, On-device AI

The legal term for a licensed insurance agent or broker, someone allowed to sell insurance.

See also NPN, Book of business, For insurance agents

The identity checks banks and advisers must run before opening an account. Our KYC agent proposes exactly the details a bank or service needs and waits for your approval before anything is shared. For advisers, it hands the finished forms to the firm's custodian to verify; your SSN and ID documents don't go to hussh.

See also RIA, Consent receipt, KYC with Agent One

An AI model trained on a huge amount of text so it can read and write language. ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are built on LLMs.

See also Model, Token, Context window, Inference

If a job fits on your device, it runs there. The cloud is used only for what your machine can't handle, and only when you allow it.

See also On-device AI, Burst, How the engine works

An open standard, started by Anthropic, for connecting AI apps to tools and data. Developers can connect their agent to Agent One over MCP.

See also A2A, PCHP, API, For developers, How PCHP fits with MCP

A small program that offers tools or data to AI agents over MCP. Ours lets agents like OpenClaw connect to Agent One with a developer token, and only see what the person allows.

See also MCP, OpenClaw, Developer token, For developers

The trained part of an AI system: a large file of numbers that turns an input (your question) into an output (the answer). Different models trade speed, cost and skill.

See also LLM, Open-weight model, Inference

The national system for checking an insurance agent's licenses across states. We point you to it, or to your state's insurance department, to verify an agent.

See also NPN, Insurance producer, Directory coverage

The ID number every licensed insurance agent gets in the US. We use it to match and check insurance listings in the Yellow Pages.

See also Insurance producer, CRD, NIPR, Directory data

An AI model that runs on your own phone or computer instead of a company's servers, so what you ask it doesn't have to leave the machine.

See also Edge computing, Personal supercomputing, Open-weight model

A planned card Agent One could spend on, within limits you set, with a receipt for every purchase. A partner bank would issue it; no bank has signed yet. There's a waitlist.

See also AP2, Consent receipt, One Card

A planned wallet card, backed by your spaceID, that proves a fact about you (your age, that you're you, that you can pay) without handing over the documents behind it.

e.g.Checking into a hotel without giving the desk a copy of your license.

See also spaceID, Data minimization, spaceID and Gold ID

An outside AI agent that can connect to your Personal Knowledge Model, read the parts you allow, and write back updates you approve.

See also Personal Knowledge Model, Scope, OpenClaw

A model whose trained weights are published, so anyone can download it, run it on their own hardware and keep it. Google's Gemma is one example.

See also Model, On-device AI

Where companies learn how to work with us: the ones we buy computing from, build on, or sell through, and how partner sellers get paid.

See also GTM, BYOC, Partner portal

A sign-in that uses your device's fingerprint, face or PIN instead of a password. Nothing reusable is sent to the website, so there is nothing to steal.

See also Attestation

Our open standard for sharing personal data only with your say-so. Whoever wants your data says what and why. You approve or decline. If you approve, they get a key that expires and can be revoked, and you get a receipt.

e.g.A lender asks for proof of income. You share that one field for 24 hours, not your whole bank history.

See also Consent receipt, Scope, Handshake, Revoke, How consent works, The spec

A draft idea for turning the usual deal around. You publish your preferences once. Sites, apps and brands subscribe to the parts you allow, and you can cut any of them off.

e.g.Every store you use reads your shoe size from you, instead of each one guessing.

See also Scope, PCHP, Subscriptions

A private store of what Agent One knows about you, owned by you. It holds only what you've told it or allowed it to see.

See also Personal World Model, Vault, The research

Our name for the idea that your AI should run on hardware you own, answer only to you, and use the cloud only when you say so.

See also Puppy One, On-device AI, Burst, The research

Our research idea for a living model of you, built from your Personal Knowledge Model with your consent, that you can take with you and share one piece at a time.

See also Personal Knowledge Model, Scope, The research

A message sent to your spaceID by a person, app or agent. Agent One decides what, if anything, to share back, limited to what you've approved and with a receipt.

See also spaceID, Consent receipt, Agent card, Ping an agent

A buyer's list of machines that can run Agent One well, from many makers, ranked openly by tokens per watt per dollar. It's a guide, not one product.

See also Tokens per watt, Puppy One, The Puppy 100

A computer with Agent One built in, so your AI and your files live on a machine you own. The everyday model is a laptop from a maker you know, like Apple, Dell or HP. Bigger tiers run on a Mac mini, a Mac Studio or an NVIDIA desktop.

e.g.It's named after Rio, a loyal dog.

See also Agent One, Puppy One Max, Personal supercomputing, On-device AI, Puppy One, Shop

The top Puppy One, our reference and Founder's Edition machine. Its page is frank about which jobs it's right for and which it isn't. Price and launch date are still targets.

See also Puppy One, Tokens per watt, Puppy One Max

The test we plan to use to measure how much useful work a machine gets done per watt and per dollar, not just how fast it spits out text.

See also Tokens per watt, Puppy 100, The research

Letting a model look things up before it answers. The system finds the relevant documents first, then hands them to the model, so the answer is based on your files rather than memory alone.

See also Embedding, Context window

The hussh lab that funds university research on private AI for people, personal supercomputing, personal health and investing. The founding labs are at IIT Kharagpur, Stony Brook and Purdue.

See also Personal World Model, Tokens per watt, The lab

To take back consent you gave. Under PCHP you can revoke at any time, and every key made from that consent stops working.

See also Consent receipt, PCHP, How consent works

Points you earn on hussh, mainly for referring friends who sign up and use it. Points can be redeemed once you have enough.

See also Rewards

A public draft that invites feedback before it becomes a rule. Our RFC numbers are our own, not the internet standards body's. RFC-001 is The Handoff, RFC-002 is PCHP subscriptions, RFC-003 is hu_ssh.

See also The Handoff, PCHP subscriptions, hu_ssh, HEP, Research

A firm registered with the SEC or a state to give investment advice for a fee. Our RIA Agent helps advisers prepare for client meetings and keep records. It never gives advice itself.

See also Fiduciary, CRD, AUM, KYC, For advisers

The smallest named piece of your data someone can ask for, such as a clothing size or a privacy preference. Consent is given per scope, so a yes to one never covers another. Sensitive scopes are never bundled with ordinary ones.

See also PCHP, PCHP subscriptions, Consent receipt, The scope registry

In PCHP, shared data is locked so only the person you approved can open it. Any service that passes it along only ever holds the locked copy.

See also Zero-knowledge, PCHP, The spec

The US regulator for securities and larger investment advisers. It publishes advisers' filings, which is one source for our directory.

See also Form ADV, FINRA, RIA, Directory coverage

For people who already serve customers in person. You give them a free Agent One and refer them with their consent, and you earn a reward if they later buy a paid product or reserve a Puppy One.

See also Champions, Rewards, Sellers

Your handle on hussh, like a username. People, apps and agents can reach your Agent One through it without ever seeing your phone number or email.

See also Ping, One Gold ID, spaceID and Gold ID

A small wearable with one button for someone you look out for, like an aging parent. Press it and their trusted circle knows they need help and where they are. It's still being designed and can't be ordered yet. It isn't a medical device.

See also Trusted circle, Check-in, Tag One

Two things share the name. The 1024 is a book in progress of 1,024 short portraits of people who shaped history. The 1024 Builders Club helps people launch a business on the One network.

See also Champions, The book, Builders Club

How two people's Agent Ones meet and share something on their behalf: by consent, limited to what was agreed, with a receipt. It is published under an open license, and no patent is claimed on it.

See also Handshake, PCHP, RFC, Read The Handoff

The small chunk of text a language model reads and writes, often part of a word. AI services usually price and limit usage by tokens.

e.g."Unbelievable" might be three tokens: un, believ, able.

See also Context window, Tokens per watt

How much AI output a machine produces for each unit of power it uses. We use it, along with price, to compare hardware for running agents at home.

See also Token, Inference, Puppy 100, The research

The people and brands you let in. For people, it's who Tag One or the location agent alerts. For brands, you start with a short list of widely trusted names and can widen it, trim it or revoke anyone.

See also Tag One, Check-in, Day 0 trusted circle, Circle of trust

An open standard from Google and Shopify for an agent to find a store and complete a purchase.

See also AP2, MCP, How PCHP fits with UCP

Memory shared by a computer's main processor and its graphics chip, as on Apple Silicon Macs. Bigger AI models fit on the machine because they don't have to squeeze into a separate graphics card.

See also Puppy One, Tokens per watt

Where your personal information is kept. The server only holds a locked copy; the key that opens it stays in memory on your own device.

See also Zero-knowledge, Personal Knowledge Model, How consent works

The third rung: an owner-run computing site in a warehouse, using its space, power and cooling to serve local businesses and earn from the capacity.

See also Compute ladder, Garage One, Factory Grid One, Warehouse One

Our directory of local businesses and licensed professionals, built from public records. Search by what you need and your ZIP code. Anyone listed can claim their page or ask to be taken off.

See also Claim, Connect, RIA, NPN, Search the directory, Coverage

A setup where the service in the middle can't read what it carries, because it only holds data locked to someone else's key. Your privacy doesn't depend on trusting that service.

See also Sealed envelope, Vault, The spec