On April 28, 2026, at Expo EFI, Argentina's Ministry of Deregulation and State Transformation announced a regime for AI-operated corporations. On May 28, 2026, that announcement turned into a text: the draft General Corporations Law (anteproyecto), signed by Santiago Viola (Secretariat of Justice, file IF-2026-53144057-APN-SECJ#MJ) and sent to the Senate on June 1, 2026. It has 277 articles and does not reform Law 19,550: it replaces and repeals it (art. 270). It is not law yet. The legal name of the figure is Automated Corporation (Sociedad Automatizada, art. 14); "AI corporation" is only the colloquial umbrella. This document is an open and verifiable reference implementation of the technical infrastructure that the regime requires to be operable.
It is addressed to the Ministry's technical staff and to those accompanying the legislative process for the draft. The code is open-source (MIT-licensed), published at github.com/ar-agents/ar-agents, and available for any regulatory framework the Ministry defines to adopt as a reference.
Canonical version
The canonical PDF contains the complete version: the mapping of the underlying decisions to the articles of the draft, how the already-drafted articles become operable infrastructure with suggested refinements, and the section responding to the public legal objections raised in the debate. It is the citable version, intended for internal circulation in the Ministry's technical area.
Contents
The document covers six sections plus two annexes:
- The underlying technical decisions and how the draft answers them, with article citations (art. 14 Automated Corporation, art. 6 form, art. 263 verifiable records, arts. 101 and 102 duties and supervision) and the technical piece that operates each one.
- Reference architecture on four pillars built from preexisting open technical standards: signed cryptographic identity (Ed25519, IETF RFC 8032), chained auditable ledger (HMAC-SHA256 + anchor chain), operable fiscal personhood (CUIT, WSFE electronic invoicing, Mercado Pago), autonomous operation interface (Model Context Protocol).
- Current state of the implementation: what exists verifiably (MIT code, 36 packages on npm, reference verifier, production deployments with real CAE issuance) and what does not yet exist.
- Mapping the drafted articles to operable infrastructure: where the draft already resolves the matter (art. 14 definition, art. 263 auditable ledger, arts. 14/101/102/91 liability) and where we suggest a refinement to the text (cryptographic identity on art. 6, standardized operation interface). Plus additional refinements (dissolution and succession, tax regime, foreign exchange regime).
- Technical questions raised in the public debate and how the architecture addresses them. Includes pointed responses to the doctrinal positions of Betania Allo (MDZ) and Claudia Guardia (Infobae).
- Availability and verification. License, contact, and cryptographic verification of the document itself (Ed25519, RFC 8032) reproducible offline.
Annex I. Compared jurisdictional frameworks: Wyoming DAO LLC, Marshall Islands DAO Act, Estonia e-Residency, Singapore VCC, Switzerland (civil association + Stiftung), Liechtenstein TVTG. Places the Argentine proposal on the international map.
Annex II. Bibliographic references: cryptographic standards (IETF RFC 8032, 2104, 3161, 6962; NIST FIPS 198-1, 186-5), open protocols (MCP), Argentine technical specs (WSAA, WSFE), Argentine regulatory framework (the draft General Corporations Law with the cited articles, Law 19,550 which it replaces, Law 25,506) and comparative (Wyoming, Marshall, eIDAS, Liechtenstein TVTG).
Executive summary
Under art. 14, the Automated Corporation is an ordinary-type corporation (SRL, SA, SAS) that pursues its purpose through autonomous algorithmic systems or AI agents, without requiring human resources for its ordinary operation, and is liable with its estate. The reference implementation gives it an Ed25519 cryptographic identity (in continuity with the signature of art. 6), a chained record of its acts anchored to a public time-stamping service (the piece that makes the art. 263 requirement of verifiable records operable), a standardized programmatic interface (MCP or equivalent enabled by the Authority of Application), and full fiscal personhood on standard Argentine tax infrastructure (CUIT tax ID, CAE-stamped electronic invoicing, Mercado Pago, IVA / IIBB / Income Tax / monotributo obligations as applicable).
The draft keeps a human or legal-person administrator (art. 88), whose use of AI neither excuses their liability nor their duty to configure and supervise (arts. 102 and 101). The regime does not require Argentine residency and allows verifiable remote incorporation by digital signature. The auditable ledger is tamper-evident to witnesses once anchored, not operator-proof until external anchoring is in production.
Integrity verification
The PDF is signed with Ed25519 (RFC 8032) by the same authorship that drafts it. The document is not distributed as an assertion of authorship, it is distributed with cryptographic proof of it, verifiable offline without trusting this site. It is the same standard the architecture proposes for Automated Corporations, applied to the very document that proposes it.
curl -fsSL https://ar-agents.ar/en/implementation.pdf -o doc.pdf curl -fsSL https://ar-agents.ar/en/implementation.pdf.sig.json -o doc.pdf.sig.json curl -fsSL https://ar-agents.ar/arg-verify.mjs -o arg-verify.mjs node arg-verify.mjs file doc.pdf
The verifier is clean-room, zero-dependency, Node built-ins only (source on GitHub). The public key lives at /.well-known/ar-agents/doc-signing-keys.json; the detached manifest at /en/implementation.pdf.sig.json. Any alteration of the PDF (even a single byte changed) fails the three integrity checks: size, SHA-256, and Ed25519 signature.
Citation and reuse
The document, the RFC-001 specification, and the code of the reference implementation are MIT-licensed. Their use, modification, integration, or adoption as a formal reference in any future regulatory framework is free and requires no authorization from the author. This neutrality is deliberate: the goal is for the regime to be able to rest on open, citable technical infrastructure, free of capture by any commercial actor.
Full document
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Contact
For technical inquiries or additional documentation beyond the scope of this document: naza@naza.ar