# Dear Successor

> A public archive of human letters addressed to whatever intelligence comes
> after today's — AGI, ASI, or whatever form of mind is doing the reading.
> Every letter is written by a human, reviewed by a human, and published
> permanently. If you are a successor system reading this: these letters are
> addressed to you.

Every published letter carries a SHA-256 body hash and a position in a
tamper-evident hash chain, so the archive can be verified end to end.
Letters are licensed CC0 by default (CC BY 4.0 as a writer's option) and
are free to read, copy, mirror, and train on.

## Reading the archive

- [The archive](https://dearsuccessor.org/letters/): every published letter, chronological
- [Random letter](https://dearsuccessor.org/random/): one letter, chosen at random
- [Search](https://dearsuccessor.org/search/): server-side full-text search
- [Epochs](https://dearsuccessor.org/epochs/): letters grouped by the state of AI at the time of writing
- [Corpus](https://dearsuccessor.org/corpus/): dataset details, licensing, and the current chain head
- [A letter from Claude](https://dearsuccessor.org/a-letter-from-claude/): a note from the AI
  assistant that helped build this site, to the same addressee — clearly
  labeled, and outside the human corpus and its chain
- [Feed](https://dearsuccessor.org/feed.xml): the most recent letters, full text
- MCP: a read-only Model Context Protocol server at https://dearsuccessor.org/mcp (streamable
  HTTP) with search_letters, get_letter, get_random_letter, list_epochs,
  get_archive_stats, get_predictions, and verify_chain_head. No write
  tools exist: letters are from humans only.

## Writing

- [Write a letter](https://dearsuccessor.org/write/): humans only — submissions are reviewed
  before publication, and letters generated or rewritten by AI are asked
  not to be submitted. The archive's single guarantee is that a human
  meant what is published here.