Protocols

How the data was made. Each Protocol is the reproducible definition behind an open Dataset — an ordered sequence of typed steps that fetch, resolve, tier, export and gate the data. Every step is a versioned operator, a SQL model, or (rarely) an opaque command, and a Protocol can gate its output against a finetype schema contract before it ships.

Running a Protocol you did not write is equivalent to running a shell script you did not read. Arcform runs a step’s command as you, with no sandbox and no container, and the finetype gate checks the data a Protocol produces, not what its steps do. What running one costs you.

This is a read-only view for browsing and discovery — authoring lives elsewhere.