Specifications
Published by the Terrene Foundation under CC BY 4.0.
CARE · Collaborative Autonomous Reflective Enterprise
Who sets the rules?
Separates the rules and accountability held by people from the work carried out by agents. It defines limits on spending, actions, time, data and communication.
PACT · Principled Architecture for Constrained Trust
Who is responsible?
Defines organizational roles and the authority that passes between them. Delegated limits can tighten but cannot exceed the authority that granted them.
EATP · Enterprise Agent Trust Protocol
Who authorized the action?
Defines verifiable records that trace an agent’s authority back to its source, including delegation and revocation.
CO · Cognitive Orchestration
How is knowledge carried into the work?
Describes a method for coordinating AI work and preserving instructions and organizational knowledge across tasks.
Standards and software
Open specifications. A commercial implementation.
The Foundation owns the standards. Aegis does not claim ownership of them. Public specifications let reviewers inspect the underlying approach; they do not certify a deployment or guarantee effortless migration.
Reference software
The Foundation’s open-source reference software is available under Apache 2.0.
Aegis
The commercial application brings the approach into a product for enterprise teams.
Aegis is operated by Integrum. The open specifications explain the principles; your evaluation and agreement establish the implementation and operating responsibilities. See the available review material →