# Read the Papers

The primary sources for diligence are the two papers, not this summary.

* [**Internal APIs Are All You Need**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.00694) is the core paper: shadow APIs, shared discovery, the case against browser-first agent architectures, the economic adoption condition, and the evaluation methodology (warmed-cache versus cold-start, cost analysis, network growth).
* **The Unbrowse Maintenance Network paper** is the second-layer argument: trust, accountability, challenge mechanisms, and the narrow role of optional bonding once a shared graph carries meaningful traffic. It is explicit that the wedge works without a native asset and that the accountability layer is the quieter, later question.

For current traction, prefer live numbers over anything written here. The public stats and traction endpoints carry the up-to-date figures; metrics pinned into prose go stale and should not be cited from a docs page.

What is shipped today versus what is research direction is stated plainly in the Concepts section and in the [Open Source Notice](/reference/open-source-notice.md). The honest split is the point: the wedge is measurable now, the fuller economy is documented intent.


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