lar

# LAR — Layered Agentic Retrieval

> A publisher-side architectural pattern for declaring agent-navigable web surfaces. This repository hosts the open community process for the LAR v0.1 specification and reference examples.

## Working paper

- [Marinoni Moretto (2026), full text in Markdown](https://lar.md/lar/working-paper.md): the architectural claim and v0.1 baseline scope, served as `text/plain; charset=utf-8` from the reference surface, no rendering pipeline and no third-party rate limit in the way. The Appendix A.1 manifest schema in it parses as valid JSON.
- [Citable record](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21622424): open access, PDF and Markdown, CC BY-SA 4.0. Concept DOI, always resolves to the latest version. Text identical to the SSRN deposit (`10.2139/ssrn.6801118`).

## Specification

- [JSON Schema (draft-07)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lar-spec/lar/main/schemas/lar.schema.json): canonical lar.json structure
- [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md): paper-anchored vs exploratory scope tracking

## Reference examples

- [E-commerce — Pelletteria Vanelli](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/tree/main/examples/ecommerce/vanelli): composite Florentine leather goods merchant, ~80 SKUs
- [Nonprofit — Fondazione Restauro Brunelleschi](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/tree/main/examples/nonprofit/restauro): composite heritage-restoration foundation

## Self-demonstrating surface

- [/lar.json](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/blob/main/lar.json): this repository's own LAR manifest. The repo treats its specification artifacts as a publication surface and exposes them through the canonical structure it documents.

## Process

- [CONTRIBUTING](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md): how to engage with this proposal
- [Issues](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/issues): refinement proposals and feedback, organized by the working paper's §8 open-question categories
- [LICENSE](https://github.com/lar-spec/lar/blob/main/LICENSE): Apache 2.0 for code, schemas, and examples