[mission] why we exist
Software ate the world; agents are now eating software. And every agent is exactly as good as what it knows. Code gets dependencies from npm and crates.io — battle-tested, versioned, verified. Knowledge still gets copy-pasted markdown, stale wikis and prompts of unknown origin.
That gap is the defining infrastructure problem of the agentic era. Teams spend weeks distilling what their agents know about a framework, a domain, a regulation — and that work evaporates at the project boundary. Meanwhile unverified context is the easiest way to smuggle instructions into an agent that ships your code.
ctxpkg.com exists to make knowledge installable: packaged once, signed by its author, verified on every install, ranked by evidence — and worth money to the people who distilled it.
[loop] the flywheel
Marketplaces win on compounding loops, not features. Ours turns six times, and every turn is measurable:
Every published package makes the catalog more useful to one more team.
Useful catalogs get installed into more agents, more pipelines, more IDEs.
Every install produces ROI data — tokens saved, sessions accelerated, knowledge reused.
Evidence feeds the quality score. The best context rises because it provably works.
Provable value is worth paying for — buyers arrive where proof lives.
Income attracts the people with the deepest knowledge. Their packages start the loop again.
[strategy] becoming the default
The format is a public standard. CTXPKG is specified at ctxpkg.org with schemas, conformance levels, golden test vectors and two independent verifiers. Tools adopt formats, not companies — an open spec removes every reason to say no.
The registry competes on trust. Every version carries a public audit document. Every install re-verifies signatures locally. Ranking is computed from evidence, and the computation is documented. Trust compounds — every audited version makes the next one easier to choose, and an audit history is the one thing a well-funded copy cannot ship on day one. The full chain of custody — from distillation to policy-gated consumption — is laid out on the governance page.
The marketplace pays the experts. 85% of every sale goes to the publisher. The people with the deepest knowledge go where knowledge earns — and their packages are why the next team installs.
[promises] in writing
trust is never for sale
No paid placement. No sponsored ranking. No pay-for-verification. The verified badge is DNS proof, the quality score is computed from evidence, and both are free forever. The moment a registry sells trust, it has none left to sell.
the standard stays open
The package format lives at ctxpkg.org under open governance with a written shared-control trigger. Anyone can build a competing registry from the same spec — we win by being the best implementation, not the only one.
work is never stranded
Versions are immutable, yanked packages stay resolvable for reproducibility, and no paywall ever blocks a package you already published or bought. Supply chains need permanence more than we need leverage.
And get paid for distilling it.