Prompt Protocol

Prompt Protocol is a pre-generation authorization protocol for generative AI systems. It addresses a fundamental gap in the current landscape: while content provenance standards describe what was generated, and legal remedies operate after harm is done, no standardized mechanism exists for determining whether AI-generated content is authorized before it is produced.

The protocol introduces three key mechanisms.

1 - every license requires cryptographic signatures from both the rights-holder and the registry operator — neither party can act alone.

2 - AI providers query the registry at inference time, before producing any output; if no valid license exists, generation does not proceed.

3 - any subject can file an opt-out that takes absolute priority — it terminates generation before any license is even consulted, and no license can override it.

PP is organized in four independent layers (core authorization, pluggable identity resolution, jurisdiction-aware policy profiles, and an optional provenance bridge), designed for federation across multiple registry operators. No protocol material appears in user-facing prompts. This document is the technical specification. 

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