MLCP: Build Above the Page — The Trust Layer for the Metaweb

The Internet wasn’t designed for truth, agency, or coordination. And now—as systems fracture, platforms fail, and agents multiply—we are finally ready to build what comes next.

The Meta-layer Coordination Protocol (MLCP) is the substrate for that future.

Originally developed by the Overweb -- an early partner in the Meta-Layer Initiative and the first full instantiation of a meta-layer, MLCP proposes a new kind of infrastructure: not below the web, but above it. It’s a coordination protocol for humans, agents, and communities to build trust, consent, and memory into the interface itself.

Where MCP (Model Context Protocol) keeps AI on script, MLCP gives people the means to shape what shows up, how it’s interpreted, and how meaning propagates. It's not about controlling AI; it's about enabling contextual agency in a world saturated with it.

From Fracture to Flow: What MLCP Unlocks

• Overlays that reveal who’s here, what’s trusted, and what’s contested

• Tags and signals that layer memory, interpretation, and dissent

• Consent-aware spaces where interactions are governed by transparent boundaries

• Visible agents that act in defined scopes, auditable and self-contained

Together, these make up a civic substrate—a meta-layer that sits across the open web, available to anyone who opts in.

Core Stack (Phase I)

• Overlay Runtime: Smart, contextual UI extensions

• Smart Tag System: Annotate, claim, flag, filter

• Presence Engine: Declare, detect, and message across domains

• Consent Stack: Real-time permissioning + revocation

• Bridge Layer: Connect information across pages and communities

• Agent Invocation: Contained, auditable AI actions

• Authentication & Storage: Holochain-based identity and sovereign traffic logs

• Token & Payments: Native value for coordination, contribution, and incentives
  
  

Why Holochain?

MLCP runs on Holochain to ensure that every participant maintains full sovereignty over their data, presence, and history. Web traffic (including page hashes and overlay traces) are signed and stored in each user’s local chain—only shared when explicitly bridged.

This isn't surveillance. It’s self-owned memory.

Phase 1.5: Reflection + Governance

What’s next:

• Data Sovereignty Interface: View, export, revoke your entire interaction footprint

• Plugin Registry: Launch community filters, overlays, validators

• Semantic Filters: Shape your feed—and your group’s—through values, not algorithms
  
  

Who This Is For

Big thinkers. Builders. Funders. Truth-seekers.
If you’re shaping the future of intelligence, civic infrastructure, or collective sensemaking—this is your substrate.

To get involved:

• Explore the MLCP briefing and dev strategy

• Contribute to 3rd of the Call for Input: https://themetalayer.org/call-for-input

• Submit projects through our submission assistant, Bridgit.
  

The age of meta-coordination has begun. Let’s build above the page—together.

Watch the Preface of the seminal book in the space, The Metaweb: The Next Level of the Internet.