What “Certified” means

Plain English

The Agentypical Certified badge means the service was reviewed against the Agentypical Standard: an agent can discover, evaluate, enrol, configure, pay or arrange sponsorship, operate, and get evidence — with a human only where that is genuinely required.

Rules (non-negotiable)

1. Certified is earned by review — never self-asserted on this site.
2. Empty is honest. Zero Certified cards is correct until someone earns the badge.
3. Fake badges are forbidden. Do not invent Certified providers or dress up empty categories as Certified.
4. Public seeds may use known or evaluating only until certification is live and earned.
5. List-my-service submissions go to a review queue and are not auto-published as known, evaluating, or Certified.
6. The certify action / application API is not ready.

Machine copy

/specs/certified.v1.json · format_version 1 · also explained at /a/certified/.