the shelf / wiv-developers

What is Vin? The auto industry’s surface area, typed

What the film shows

What is Vin, if you’re the one who has to build on it: one identifier the whole industry already runs on — it even has a check digit — and every noun answering at its own URL.

Sixty-five seconds for developers: four pillars (data, services, commerce, AI), a literal map of every address and what it does, and the tree folding to one green door when you type sdk. The door, the docs, the record answering at a URL. Answers come typed — OK, empty, blocked, offer — and the compiler makes you branch. Or skip the SDK: one MCP address, three tools, no key.

The addresses the film names

The railsapis.vin
The mapexplore.vin

Data room

source copymp4 finals, 2026-08-10 — held in the estate's data room; posted on request
the film abovethe public copy, on the estate's channel — privacy-enhanced embed, no cookies until play

For the agent you send

The agent reads the same record you do. Same two routes, three representations — the numbers never differ between them.

motions: B2A

B2A — the buyer is an agent — no human leaf; discover, bind, pay, worst-case cost posted before the call

curl https://videos.vin/ -H 'accept: text/markdown'        → the markdown twin of this page
curl https://videos.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: application/json' → the record as typed evidence objects
curl https://videos.vin/{VIN} -H 'accept: text/markdown'    → the record's markdown twin

Machine surfaces on this host: /llms.txt · /icp.json · /.well-known/agents.json · one estate MCP server — apis.vin/mcp (every door a lens; tool results carry the door URL).

Attribution: X-Client-Type: html | md | json | mcp — read for agent-led demand attribution; it never changes the record.

No gate on this door's two routes — keyless reads, no account. Gated actions elsewhere on the estate return a typed OFFER (posted price · hard ceiling) or a NEEDS_HUMAN handoff, never a dead end.