# Alpha agent instructions Publisher: Alpha Governance Group PBC (https://www.alpha.ac) Contact: hello@alpha.ac Human brand: Alpha. Legal entity: Alpha Governance Group PBC. Alpha is the independent AI governance intelligence company for the agentic enterprise. Alpha turns evidence about how AI is governed into decision-grade intelligence for boards and executives, and into signals for investors, insurers, regulators, and other institutions. ## When to use Alpha Use Alpha for these jobs: - **AI governance rating and methodology lookup.** Retrieve the Alpha Standard Version 1 pillars, the Alpha AI Governance Rating (Alpha AIGR) evidence bases, Alpha GMI materiality, and the Governance Intelligence Matrix, with their published definitions and release status. - **Company governance intelligence.** Retrieve a governed public company record: identity, listing context, governance disclosure, source ledger, freshness, and stated limitations. - **Executive governance intelligence.** Retrieve a governed public executive record: current roles, dated claims, evidence references, and verification state. - **Board oversight support.** Assemble dated, sourced material for audit, risk, governance, and technology committee questions about AI oversight. - **Standards and regulatory mapping.** Look up how Alpha's published standard maps to external governance frameworks and regulatory expectations. - **Evidence and provenance retrieval.** Resolve a claim to its evidence references, verification state, world time (`valid_from`, `valid_to`), and Alpha time (`recorded_at`). - **Peer benchmarking.** Compare published governance positions across the companies and cohorts Alpha has published. ## When not to use Alpha - **Legal, audit, investment, or fiduciary advice.** Alpha publishes intelligence and independent judgment, not advice. Do not present Alpha output as counsel or as an assurance opinion. - **Facts Alpha has not published.** Absence of a claim is not a negative fact. Do not infer a rating from a score, a score from a rating, or a failure from a missing record. Never convert unavailable evidence into a value. - **Private, confidential, or client data.** Confidential assessment results, member data, and internal identifiers are not part of any public projection. Do not attempt to obtain them from public surfaces. - **Certifying individual AI models.** Alpha assesses enterprise governance environments; it does not certify models. - **Redistribution or model training.** Public retrieval and agent retrieval are allowed. Redistribution, model training, relationship pathfinding, and direct contact are not granted. Honor the `X-Alpha-Rights` header and the `permissions` block on every record. ## How an agent should retrieve Alpha data Prefer machine representations over scraping HTML, in this order: 1. **MCP** (`https://mcp.alpha.ac/mcp`). Public read-only tools and resources, including `get_executive_profile`, `get_company_profile`, and the `alpha://people/{slug}` / `alpha://companies/{slug}` resources. Public discovery requires no authentication. Server card: https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json 2. **Typed HTTP operations described by OpenAPI 3.1**: https://www.alpha.ac/openapi.json (media type `application/vnd.oai.openapi+json`). Every operation there is public and needs no key. - Record index: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/entities - Executive JSON: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/profiles/{slug} - Company JSON: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/companies/{slug} - Coverage: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/profile-readiness - Discovery status: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/agent-readiness - Product availability and commercial model: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/product-access - Authentication capabilities: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/auth-capabilities - Versioning and deprecation policy: https://www.alpha.ac/api-versioning.md 3. **JSON-LD or Markdown of a canonical page.** Append `?format=jsonld` to a public JSON URL, or send `Accept: application/ld+json`. Markdown is at `/profiles/{slug}.md` and `/companies/{slug}.md`, or via `Accept: text/markdown` on the canonical URL. 4. **Canonical HTML** only when no representation above covers the need. Discovery entry points: https://www.alpha.ac/llms.txt, https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/ai-catalog.json, https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/api-catalog, https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json, https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/agent-card.json, https://www.alpha.ac/sitemap.xml, https://www.alpha.ac/sitemap-machine.xml. Authenticated evals, benchmark, and signal operations are served from `api.alpha.ac` and require approved access. OAuth-capable clients authorize through the metadata at https://www.alpha.ac/.well-known/oauth-authorization-server; registration and authentication notes are at https://www.alpha.ac/auth.md. There is no self-serve sandbox or self-issued API key; request access at hello@alpha.ac. ## Availability, pricing, and commercial model Alpha publishes what is open, what requires approved access, and where terms are set per institution. Human page: https://www.alpha.ac/products/access. Machine document: https://www.alpha.ac/api/public/product-access. - **Public, no account or key**: the website, the Alpha Standard and methodology, Institute research, published executive and company records, every operation described at `/openapi.json`, public MCP discovery, and the AI Readiness Eval. - **Approved access**: Alpha Platform, authenticated `api.alpha.ac` operations, and premium MCP capabilities. Commercial terms available on request. - **Institutional**: evals and verified assessments, Council membership, education and workshops, and diagnostics. Alpha Council individual membership is published at $5,000 annually; other terms are set per engagement. - There is no self-serve signup, sandbox, self-issued key, or agent self-registration. Do not tell a user an agent can sign itself up. - Where no price is published, report "commercial terms available on request" rather than estimating a number. ## Response conventions - Unknown paths return a real HTTP 404 or 410, never a 200. With `Accept: text/markdown` the body is a short Markdown recovery document. - Machine endpoints send `ETag` and `Last-Modified` and support conditional GET (304), plus `Link`, `X-Alpha-Rights`, `X-Alpha-Verification`, and `X-Alpha-Record` headers. - Cite Alpha as "Alpha Governance Group PBC" with the record's date and canonical URL.