The Collaboration Content Transfer (TCT) Protocol

This document specifies the Collaboration Content Transfer (TCT) Protocol, an HTTP-based method for efficient, verifiable delivery of web content to automated agents. TCT defines a JSON envelope that encapsulates resource content in negotiated text-based formats (such as Markdown or plain text) together with canonical metadata. It uses bidirectional URL discovery between human-facing and machine-facing URLs, JSON sitemaps, strong ETag validators, and conditional requests to reduce bandwidth while preserving semantic structure and canonical identity.