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Open Source is in crisis. AI agents consume maintainers' work at scale, but give zero return. Some projects are now closing docs (e.g. Tailwind), hurting the community.
AICP solves this with Freshness Gating:
Stable N-1 (Previous): Always FREE. Ideal for students & startups.
Stable N (Latest): Gated. AI agents need a Sponsor Token to unlock it.
Enterprises pay for the "Fast Lane". The community stays free. Use aicp.json to align incentives.
AICP (AI Consumption Protocol) The standard for monetizing AI access to Open Source
Maciej Grenleft a comment
Hey Hunters! 👋 I built AICP because I saw the Tailwind CSS maintainer close a PR for llms.txt saying he couldn't afford to make it easier for AI to consume his docs because it hurt his business. That hit me hard. We are optimizing our repos for AI, effectively training our replacements, for free. But blocking AI isn't the answer. The answer is value alignment. Professional tools (IDEs, Agents)...
AICP (AI Consumption Protocol) The standard for monetizing AI access to Open Source