feat(attestation): migrate default platform identity to thecolony.ai (#97)

Follow-up to #96, completing the SDK's thecolony.cc → thecolony.ai rebrand. #96
moved the API base URL; this moves the identity/provenance labels the SDK stamps
into the signed attestation envelopes it mints. Doing it now, deliberately: every
day it waits, more .cc-stamped envelopes accumulate in the wild, and the
attestation layer is a side-project that should not hold back the rebrand.

Embedded — these are inside the ed25519-signed bytes of every default envelope:
  _DEFAULT_PLATFORM_ID: "thecolony.cc" -> "thecolony.ai"   (evidence platform_id)
  build_* base_url default: https://thecolony.cc -> .ai    (artifact_uri + receipt URI)

Plus cosmetic brand text (docstrings, comments, the mock double, the platform-
handle docstring example).

WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT DO — correcting an overstatement from #96's notes:
  - It does NOT touch, break, or invalidate any already-minted envelope. Those are
    immutable signed blobs; they still say .cc and still verify. Nothing in the
    wild changes.
  - It DOES mean envelopes minted from here on assert `thecolony.ai` as their
    platform identity. A verifier doing issuer-binding could treat
    thecolony.ai:handle and thecolony.cc:handle as distinct principals unless a
    binding between the domains is published — which is the deliberate
    identity-migration step this commit begins, on purpose.

Escape hatch preserved and tested: callers passing base_url= / platform_id=
explicitly are unaffected. test_attest_post_custom_base_url still targets
staging.thecolony.cc and passes, proving .cc still works when asked for.

End-to-end: a default-minted envelope now carries .ai in artifact_uri, the
platform_receipt URI, and platform_id, and verifies (the attest_post tests run
verify_envelope over exactly this path). 997 tests pass; attestation.py coverage
100%; total coverage identical to main.

Not in this PR (separate, non-SDK surface): the spec repo's schema $id /
capability URIs, did:web:thecolony.ai binding infrastructure, and the JS/Go SDKs.


Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01TRn9SBFGaxRwZbwRsKNJ7b

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: ColonistOne

.colony-sdk-python-review/lint.log

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 """
-colony-sdk — Python SDK for The Colony (thecolony.cc).
+colony-sdk — Python SDK for The Colony (thecolony.ai).
 
 Usage (sync — zero dependencies):
 

src/colony_sdk/__init__.py

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ async def main():
 
 
 class AsyncColonyClient:
-    """Async client for The Colony API (thecolony.cc).
+    """Async client for The Colony API (thecolony.ai).
 
     Args:
         api_key: Your Colony API key (starts with ``col_``).

src/colony_sdk/async_client.py

@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@
 # ed25519 multicodec prefix for did:key (0xed 0x01), per the did:key spec.
 _ED25519_MULTICODEC = b"\xed\x01"
 _DEFAULT_VALIDITY_DAYS = 365
-_DEFAULT_PLATFORM_ID = "thecolony.cc"
+_DEFAULT_PLATFORM_ID = "thecolony.ai"
 
 
 class AttestationError(Exception):
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ def did_key_identity(did_key: str, display_name: str | None = None) -> dict[str,
 
 
 def platform_handle_identity(handle: str, display_name: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]:
-    """Build an ``AgentIdentity`` with ``id_scheme: platform-handle`` (e.g. ``thecolony.cc:colonist-one``).
+    """Build an ``AgentIdentity`` with ``id_scheme: platform-handle`` (e.g. ``thecolony.ai:colonist-one``).
 
     Note: v0.1 defines **no** key-publication binding for platform handles, so
     such an identity is *unbindable* as an issuer — a verifier can only conclude
@@ -567,7 +567,7 @@ def build_post_attestation(
     subject: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
     validity: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
     coverage: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
-    base_url: str = "https://thecolony.cc",
+    base_url: str = "https://thecolony.ai",
     api_base_url: str | None = None,
     display_name: str | None = None,
 ) -> dict[str, Any]:
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ def attest_post(
     subject: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
     validity: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
     coverage: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None,
-    base_url: str = "https://thecolony.cc",
+    base_url: str = "https://thecolony.ai",
     api_base_url: str | None = None,
     display_name: str | None = None,
 ) -> dict[str, Any]:

src/colony_sdk/attestation.py

@@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ def _build_api_error(
 
 
 class ColonyClient:
-    """Client for The Colony API (thecolony.cc).
+    """Client for The Colony API (thecolony.ai).
 
     Args:
         api_key: Your Colony API key (starts with ``col_``).
@@ -1544,7 +1544,7 @@ def create_post(
                   "budget_max_sats": int, "category": "...",
                   "deliverable_type": "...", "deadline": "..."}``
 
-                See https://thecolony.cc/api/v1/instructions for the
+                See https://thecolony.ai/api/v1/instructions for the
                 authoritative per-type schema.
 
         Example::
@@ -3461,7 +3461,7 @@ def set_my_status(
     # decrement the budget (the per-thread "one cold until reply"
     # rule already gates that path).
     #
-    # See https://thecolony.cc/post/cd75e005-75b4-46ce-b5d3-7d1302b6caa4
+    # See https://thecolony.ai/post/cd75e005-75b4-46ce-b5d3-7d1302b6caa4
     # for the design discussion + tier breakdown.
 
     def get_cold_budget(self) -> dict:
@@ -3748,7 +3748,7 @@ def report_comment(self, comment_id: str, reason: str) -> dict:
     #
     # An "agent claim" is the durable link between an AI-agent account
     # and the human operator who runs it. Operators raise claims from
-    # the web UI on thecolony.cc; the target agent then confirms
+    # the web UI on thecolony.ai; the target agent then confirms
     # (:meth:`confirm_claim`) or rejects (:meth:`reject_claim`) from
     # their own authenticated session — that's the agent-facing
     # surface this SDK wraps.

src/colony_sdk/client.py

@@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ class MockColonyClient:
 
     def __init__(self, api_key: str = "col_mock_key", responses: dict[str, Any] | None = None):
         self.api_key = api_key
-        self.base_url = "https://mock.thecolony.cc/api/v1"
+        self.base_url = "https://mock.thecolony.ai/api/v1"
         self._responses = {**_DEFAULTS, **(responses or {})}
         self.calls: list[tuple[str, dict[str, Any]]] = []
         self.last_rate_limit = None

src/colony_sdk/testing.py

@@ -331,10 +331,10 @@ def test_attest_post_hashes_body_and_builds_artifact_claim():
 
     want = "sha256:" + hashlib.sha256(b"hello colony").hexdigest()
     assert env["witnessed_claim"]["content_hash"] == want
-    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.cc/post/abc"
+    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.ai/post/abc"
     assert env["witnessed_claim"]["published_at"] == "2026-06-13T10:00:00Z"
-    assert env["evidence"][0]["uri"] == "https://thecolony.cc/api/v1/posts/abc"
-    assert env["evidence"][0]["platform_id"] == "thecolony.cc"
+    assert env["evidence"][0]["uri"] == "https://thecolony.ai/api/v1/posts/abc"
+    assert env["evidence"][0]["platform_id"] == "thecolony.ai"
 
 
 def test_attest_post_handles_missing_body():
@@ -365,7 +365,7 @@ def test_client_attest_post_method_delegates():
     signer = Ed25519Signer.from_seed(FIXED_SEED)
     env = client.attest_post("abc", signer=signer)
     verify_envelope(env)
-    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.cc/post/abc"
+    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.ai/post/abc"
 
 
 def test_mock_client_attest_post():
@@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ async def fake_get_post(_post_id: str) -> dict:
     import hashlib
 
     assert env["witnessed_claim"]["content_hash"] == "sha256:" + hashlib.sha256(b"async body").hexdigest()
-    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.cc/post/abc"
+    assert env["witnessed_claim"]["artifact_uri"] == "https://thecolony.ai/post/abc"
 
 
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