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What this PR does

Adds a page for PACT, the Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (/standards/pact), the 13th standard on ax.guide. It sits in Identity, after auth.md, with status Draft. Decagon open-sourced it with Instinct on October 6, 2026, the same day Poppy was announced, and it covers much of the same ground: a person's agent acting for them at a company. PACT is a layer on A2A rather than its own protocol, so people will mix the two up. The PR also adds a "Poppy vs PACT" pair to /compare, lists PACT next to Poppy on /which and on Poppy's page, and changes the "twelve" counts to thirteen.

What changed

• New content/standards/pact.md, Identity, order 4 (map number 08), status draft.
  • Why draft: the spec and an Apache-2.0 repository are public, but no business or personal agent is publicly known to use it. Decagon's Personal Agent Gateway (October 1) names no customer using PACT.
  • How it works: discovery is an A2A Agent Card at /.well-known/agent-card.json. The personal agent signs a JWT, which the Provider checks against the agent's published keys after a one-time registration per Provider. Delegation is optional: OAuth device sign-in on the Brand's own page, with scopes each Brand defines, and step-up when a request needs more.
  • Versioning: the spec has no version number (the packages are 0.1.0) and no standards body.
• A difference from Poppy, stated neutrally: PACT requires a stable, opaque sub per user. Its spec doesn't say whether that ID must differ between companies, as Poppy's per-company User ID must.
• content/pairs.json: new poppy-vs-pact pair.
• content/guide.json: the "customers' own agents should sign in and act on their accounts" situation now lists Poppy and PACT.
• content/standards/poppy.md: PACT added to related.
• "twelve" changed to "thirteen" in content/site.json (share image alt), content/home.json (the /compare card) and content/standards/ucp.md.
• README.md table (npm run readme) and spec-pins.json (npm run pins) regenerated.
• Spec pin: a git-path source on openpactprotocol/openpactprotocol docs/spec.md, pinned to the blob that was read (294e4bd…). node scripts/spec-drift.mjs check spec-pins.json --only pact reports ok.

Visible side effects:

• Every standard after PACT shifts one number on the map and in the README (UCP 08 to 09, x402 12 to 13).
• The README banner and map images are static screenshots and still show twelve standards. This PR doesn't regenerate them, and their alt text still describes those images.

Sources

• Spec: https://openpactprotocol.org/spec (repository: https://github.com/openpactprotocol/openpactprotocol; docs/spec.md at 62efcea, 2026-10-06; first public commit 2026-10-05; packages @openpactprotocol/protocol and @openpactprotocol/client at 0.1.0)
• Announcement: https://decagon.ai/blog/introducing-the-personal-agent-consent-trust-protocol-pact ("Today, we're open-sourcing the Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT), co-developed and supported by Instinct"; joining the Personal Agent Protocol working group; posted October 6, 2026)
• Decagon's earlier post naming PACT and introducing the Personal Agent Gateway: https://decagon.ai/blog/personal-agents-are-here (October 1, 2026; no customer named as live)
• Instinct as a Poppy launch partner: https://sierra.ai/blog/poppy
• A2A: https://a2a-protocol.org

Checklist

• Every new or changed claim links a primary source.
• If I changed a status, the evidence meets the rules in content/contribute.md. (New page at draft: spec published, no deployment publicly known.)
• I only changed last_verified on pages where I rechecked every claim. (Set only on the new page, where every claim was checked against the sources above on 2026-10-21.)
• Plain words, no em dashes.

Also checked locally:

• npx vitest run (17 passed), npm run lint, npm run typecheck and npm run build (24 static pages).
• Screenshots of /standards/pact, the home map, /compare and /which at 375px and 1280px, with no horizontal overflow.

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