Weave identity into the core concepts and repair the workstream links - #49
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Identity is a cross-cutting concept that core_concepts.md did not cover, so a reader met the pillars, the parties, provenance and intent without learning who is acting. The new section states the principal, the three identities ACS keeps distinct, and the fact that ACS mandates no authentication mechanism. It links down to the normative page in concepts/ and out to the workstream pages for the open runtime problems. The four links the identity pages carried pointed at github.com/Agent-Control-Standard/ACS, which is neither this repository nor a path MkDocs can resolve. They now resolve relative to the docs tree, so the strict build checks them. Signed-off-by: rocklambros <rock@rockcyber.com>
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The workstream pages arrived as a second top-level nav group named Identity, which put two entries with the same label in the site nav and split the subject across them. They now sit under the existing Concepts entry, with the normative page first, matching the Overview-first shape the Specification sections already use. Signed-off-by: rocklambros <rock@rockcyber.com>
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Adds an Identity section to
docs/topics/core_concepts.md, placed after "The two parties" so a reader learns who is acting before reaching provenance and intent. It covers the principal, the three identities ACS keeps distinct, thetypediscriminator, and the normative position that ACS mandates no authentication mechanism.The section links down to Concepts › Identity for the normative definitions and out to the workstream pages merged in #9 for the open runtime problems. Identity also joins the Read Next list.
Repairs the four links the identity pages carried. They pointed at
github.com/Agent-Control-Standard/ACS, which is neither this repository nor a path MkDocs can resolve, so they rendered as off-site links to a different org. They are now relative to the docs tree, which puts them under the strict build's link check.Why
Follow-up to #9. Identity was reachable only from its own nav group, and the entry point most readers use for taxonomy did not mention it. The reciprocal link from
identity/overview.mdback to Core Concepts now resolves, so the two directions agree.Navigation is unchanged. Identity stays under Concepts.
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git commit -s(required by the DCO)uv run mkdocs build --strictpasses (exit 0, no link warnings)Security