Programs

The Institute's work is organized into areas, each holding programs — research groups, initiatives, events, workshops and courses. Each program has its own page listing its editions and the projects tagged to it.

  • Protocolized Active In-House

    The editorial and publishing arm of the protocol research community — essays, interviews, and research artifacts examining how protocols shape coordination, infrastructure, and institutional life. Its protocol fiction has been spun out as an independent magazine, Monstrous Times.

    Tracks
    • Substack — essays, research, and editorial on protocol themes
    • Youtube channel — talks, discussions, and event recordings
    • Books — long-form PI publications on protocol research
    Infrastructure
  • Research Active In-House

    Protocol research activities — convened through Research Groups, supported by an open challenge index, and extended by individual member projects.

    Tracks
    • SIGFPT — rigorous mathematical foundations for protocol theory
    • MRG — protocols of memory, storage, and institutional recall
    • SIGPfB — protocol design in business and organizational contexts
    • ProtFiSIG — protocol concepts explored through speculative fiction
    • DRG — onchain robotics protocols designed and tested on real hardware
    • SIGPSY — long-range historical modeling through protocol and complexity theory
    • PRG — personhood as a set of protocols, across disciplines and under AI
    • Intelligence Media — AI-native protocols: RAG bots, oracles, and the Blygger distribution protocol
    Infrastructure
    • Research index — open challenges and the community projects that respond to them
    • Research Roadmap 2027 — the year's prospectus of research-group projects, for funders and partners
  • AI Ops Active In-House

    AI tools and agents that extend the Protocol Institute's research capacity — building the computational scaffolding for exploring, synthesizing, and growing the protocol corpus.

    Infrastructure
    • PIBot — retrieval-augmented AI research assistant for the PI corpus
    • Humboldt — autonomous research agent for new nature inquiry
  • Events Active In-House

    Symposia, workshops, retreats, and convenings organized or co-organized by the Protocol Institute — bringing together researchers, practitioners, and institutions around protocol design and research.

    Projects
  • Collaborations Active

    Research activities conducted in partnership with external organizations and institutions.

    Tracks