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Proposal: intent handover (login as + open resource)

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
api

Research direction

Start with pull request 798, which contains the first draft linked from this issue, then read the proposal describing cross-application intent handover. Done means producing a specification that lets other application builders implement the handover, including the example of logging in as a user and opening a resource.

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Description

Hi all,

I've opened a pull request with a first draft:
https://github.com/solid/specification/pull/798

The idea is to make it possible for applications to signal intent to one another, so that I can pass information to a receiving application with information about what my user wants to do. For instance, I want to be able to signal 'please log in as this user and open this resource' to a text editor application.

I've shown a working demo of this on the 2026 Solid Symposium and would like to see if we can get this type of handover defined as a specification for other app builders to implement.

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