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The platform 7 pages

  • KYE™ Minimum Authority Controls™KYE™ Minimum Authority Controls™ (KAC-1..KAC-12) — the canonical twelve-control taxonomy KYE Protocol™ materially enforces at runtime. Mirrors EC-Council ADG's…
  • ValueThe added value of KYE Protocol™ across five lenses: people (end user, citizen, employee, agent, developer), value chain (buyer / vendor / merchant /…
  • KYE™ Agentic Governance Lifecycle™The KYE™ Agentic Governance Lifecycle™ — the ten-stage governance spine an agentic act traverses, from Intent to Renewal/Revocation, each stage bound to its…
  • Architecture GraphAn Obsidian-style interactive map of KYE Protocol™ — every engine, agent, rail, schema, gate and chapter as a node, every dependency as a typed edge. The same…
  • Governance for the AI WebGovernance for the AI Web™: reduce Systemic Authority Risk™ across the web of humans and AI agents. KYE™ Lens™, KYE™ Site Authority™, KYE™ Build-Release…
  • Skills governanceAI agent skills and MCP servers are a new attack surface — 969 malicious agent skills were found in a single year, and 18% of organisations have no governance…
  • The agent-protocol stackAgent frameworks (LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK) and wire protocols (MCP, A2A, agent protocols) carry the calls. KYE Protocol™ sits…

Products 7 pages

  • KYE™ App StoreThe KYE™ App Store. 21 productised authority surfaces on KYE Protocol™ — payments, open finance, sandbox, sector apps, MCP, evidence, certification, legal
  • KYE™ MCP ServerThe KYE™ MCP Server exposes KYE Protocol™ schemas, dictionaries, authority checks, Decision Maps™ and evidence packs to MCP-compatible agents, IDEs and…
  • KYE™ Agent Dev Kit™KYE™ Agent Dev Kit™ (constitution §32). Opinionated SDK + CLI + templates for building KYE-aware AI agents. One-line `withKye()` wrapper
  • KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™The KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™. Install lightweight plugins for MCP tools, webhook verification, policy adapters, evidence exports, conformance tests, sandbox…
  • IntegrationsWhat KYE Protocol™ composes with: OAuth/OIDC, SAML, SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, passkeys, OPA, Cerbos, Cedar, MCP, AuthZEN, payment rails, KYC/KYB/KYA vendors…
  • What KYE Protocol™ offersThe full KYE Protocol™ catalogue: platform tiers, products & packs, add-ons, developer tiers, programs, partner services and connectors — what is free, what is…
  • KYE™ Hardware & Electronics Engineering Authority Console™KYE™ Hardware & Electronics Engineering Authority Console™ governs AI agents acting across the hardware development lifecycle: every AI-assisted engineering…

By sector 1 page

Compliance, conformance & certification 5 pages

  • KYE™ Delegated Auditability™ (Evidence and reports)KYE™ adds a delegated-authority and evidence layer on top of your existing IAM, OAuth, API gateway, workflow, SIEM, GRC and AI-agent stack
  • Regulatory coverageKYE Protocol™ regulatory coverage: 249 frameworks decomposed into 853 requirement groups, each marked Enforced, Designed, or Out of scope — generated from a…
  • EC-Council ADG ↔ KYE Protocol™ crosswalkThe analyst-grade crosswalk between EC-Council ADG (Adopt · Defend · Govern) and KYE Protocol™ primitives. ADG defines what controls organisations should…
  • API 580 / API 581API 580 / API 581 — Risk-Based Inspection (RBI) for fixed equipment in the oil, gas and petrochemical industry coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement…
  • UK Making Tax Digital (MTD)UK Making Tax Digital (MTD) — Digital Record-Keeping & API Filing coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that…

Solutions 6 pages

  • For BuildersKYE Protocol™ gives builders an SDK + CLI + 3 starter templates — LangChain, CrewAI, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Agent SDK compatible — one-line wrap, evidence…
  • Start HereNew to KYE Protocol™? Start here. Pick who you are — buyer, developer, auditor, or regulator — and go straight to the right next step. Most teams reach their…
  • AI Governance as a ServiceAI governance as a service from KYE Protocol™, delivering Authority Finality™: the authority decision plus a Replay-Proof™ evidence record over the AI agents…
  • API & identity scope authority for AI agentsA tangible walk-through for API and identity teams: an AI integration agent about to call a privileged API it was never delegated — refused at the action…
  • Governance by DesignFor digital-transformation teams scoping AI projects: design governance in before you build. The KYE™ Governance Design Brief™ turns your project scope into a…
  • TryTry KYE Protocol™ — KYE™ Agent Dev Kit™ withKye() one-line wrap, shadow mode, and the sandbox. Build + operate the rail before you adopt it.

Developer portal 48 pages

  • Build with KYE™Build authority-aware apps with KYE Protocol™. Runtime Authority API, three SDKs (TypeScript / Python / Go), KYE™ MCP Server, Connector Hub™, signed…
  • Connector Hub™The KYE™ Connector Hub™. Plug KYE Protocol™ into payment gateways, internet/mobile payment gateways, checkout, shopping carts, wallets, MCP servers, agent…
  • Load KYE™ as an agent tool in one fileThe KYE™ Agent Tool Pack™ ships every KYE Protocol™ API as a signed, single-file .kye-tool — agent-loadable in seconds, with 60-80% fewer tokens than the…
  • ManifestsEvery installable / verifiable / billable unit in KYE™ is a signed manifest. Connectors, widgets, SKUs, rule packs, sector packs, MCP tools, proof bundles…
  • SandboxIn-browser KYE Protocol™ sandbox. Build an /v1/runtime/authorize request, see the assembled JSON, copy the curl, see a deterministic stub Decision Map™…
  • SchemasKYE™ schemas — JSON Schema 2020-12 contracts that validate every payload at runtime. Step 4 of the canonical 8-step KYE™ stack
  • Documentation hubKYE Protocol™ documentation: vocabulary, ID format, schemas, SDKs, conformance pack, sector profiles, whitepaper. Curated reading order.
  • KYE™ Tool & MCP Authority Register™The KYE™ Tool & MCP Authority Register™ is the tenant-scoped, signed register declaring every tool and MCP server an agent may invoke. The KYE™ Tool Authority…
  • Developer QuickstartYour first governed decision in minutes: get a sandbox key, send one authority-decision request to KYE Protocol™, read the verdict + Evidence Pack™ reference…
  • Build on KYE™ / KYE™ InsideBuild on KYE™. The black-box authority + evidence engine you embed via SDK/API so your branded app can prove who authorised every consequential action…
  • AdoptersCodebases conforming to the software/constitution™ open standard. Verdicts at L0–L4 via SCCT. Apache 2.0.
  • Agent Dev Kit templatesSelf-governing-by-default scaffolds — every template emits the §0.3 governance event family out of the box. They extend the canonical hello / kyc / payment set…
  • Consultant Program™ APIKYE Protocol™ — Consultant Program™ API: 37 operations from consultant-programme.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • ContributingKYE Protocol™ is an open protocol with private operational engines. The OSS surface — SDKs, verifiers, schemas, fixtures — is community-driven under Apache…
  • Developer playbooksProvider-agnostic, patent-safe patterns. Each playbook is pure pattern plus links to public schemas and examples — zero mechanism content. Read one, then…
  • End-to-end demoOne-click end-to-end demo of the KYE Protocol™ runtime — Gateway → PDP → Edge Arbiter → MCP Server
  • Example payloadsIllustrative JSON payloads that show the shape of KYE™ artefacts using public vocabulary: an entity, a delegation, a scope, a policy decision and a runtime…
  • Framework adaptersThin wrappers so popular agent / RAG / data frameworks emit the KYE™ §0.3 governance + evidence envelopes for free. Each adapter reuses the SAME envelope shape…
  • Getting startedInstall @kye/shadow-mode-sdk, register an observed action, generate an Evidence Pack, verify it offline. Pure local mode — no API key required.
  • Governed.shgoverned.sh is the KYE™ developer front door: install governed agents and apps into your stack off the shelf, or build your own with the Agent Dev Kit™. Every…
  • KYE Protocol™ Admin APIKYE Protocol™ Admin API: 188 operations from admin.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ Admin Root EndpointsKYE Protocol™ Admin Root Endpoints: 3 operations from admin-root.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ App APIKYE Protocol™ App API: 132 operations from app.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ App API (API reference)KYE Protocol™ App API — root paths: 3 operations from app-root.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ Cloud Partner-Plane APIKYE Protocol™ Cloud Partner-Plane API: 18 operations from app-partner.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ Core APIKYE Protocol™ Core API — v3 Entity Hierarchy + Relationships: 46 operations from core.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ LabList governed agents, read a delegation's scope, evaluate an action, replay it safely, get a refusal and read the hash-chained audit events, in a simulation…
  • KYE Protocol™ Sandbox APIKYE Protocol™ Sandbox API: 1 operations from sandbox.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ Site APIKYE Protocol™ Site API: 23 operations from site.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ State APIKYE Protocol™ State API — State Machines + Events + Registry: 8 operations from state.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ State Library APIKYE Protocol™ State Library API: 2 operations from state-library.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ Status APIKYE Protocol™ Status API: 7 operations from status.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE Protocol™ TerminalAn interactive demo of the KYE Protocol™ terminal: an agent requests an action; identity, on-behalf-of, authority, scope, state and audit are checked; the…
  • KYE™ Data Governance Pack™ APIKYE™ Data Governance Pack™ API: 7 operations from data-governance.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • KYE™ DevelopersTypeScript. Python. Go. Same names.
  • KYE™ Developers — ConformanceRun the suite. See the score. Ship the badge.
  • KYE™ Developers — QuickstartThree steps. One key. You ship.
  • KYE™ Developers (Build)Versioned. Public. JSON Schema 2020-12.
  • KYE™ Widgets™Embeddable KYE™ Widgets™. Filter by stakeholder (Developer / Buyer / Auditor / Regulator / Consultant / Partner / Civil Society) and category
  • LicenseAll KYE™ OSS packages ship under the Apache License 2.0, with a KYE-specific Notice covering trademarks. The full Apache 2.0 text is reproduced below, followed…
  • Native Engines APIKYE Protocol™ — Native Engines API: 12 operations from native-engines.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • Operating ModelDeveloper guide for integrating against the KYE™ Operating Model API — capability declarations, scope contracts, runtime endpoints, and conformance fixtures.
  • PackagesEvery package below is Apache 2.0, published to npm or PyPI, with source on GitHub under github.com/KYE-Protocol. The schema set is mirrored from…
  • Reality Coupling™ APIKYE Protocol™ — Reality Coupling™ API: 25 operations from reality-coupling.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • Scenario Testing™ + Approval Brief™ APIKYE Protocol™ — Scenario Testing™ + Approval Brief™ API: 56 operations from scenario-testing.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
  • software/constitution™Apache-2.0 open standard for codebases that enforce their own design principles at CI time. Language-agnostic. Provider-agnostic. Six rule classes. Five…
  • software/constitution™ — principles: the lighthouse for agentic-era codebasesThe thesis behind software/constitution™. Software-writing is becoming a commodity; what survives contact with autonomous agents is the rules the codebase…
  • software/constitution™ (KYE™ Open Source)How to adopt the software/constitution™ standard in any codebase. The five portable building blocks (kit, wake-up contract, canonical-triple discipline…

Engage 4 pages

  • KYE™ Authority-Native Venture Studio™The KYE™ Authority-Native Venture Studio™ co-creates and incubates NEW authority-native ventures built natively on KYE Protocol™'s authority-finality rails…
  • Get CertifiedThe KYE Protocol™ certificate programs for people who build and operate governed AI agents — the sector-neutral KYE™ Agentic Governance Builder Certificate™…
  • AcademyLearn the category: learning paths over KYE™ Learn™, the glossary, the frameworks explained, the playbooks, the developer quickstart and the certification…
  • KYE™ Certified Agentic Delivery Pack™The KYE™ Certified Agentic Delivery Pack™ is the delivery-partner channel for consultancies, digital agencies, systems integrators, and transformation teams…

Resources 8 pages

  • Self-GovernanceThe KYE Protocol™ governs itself under its own contract. Every privileged action (CI run, deploy, schema migration, secret rotation, domain binding) emits the…
  • ChangelogKYE Protocol™ chronological release notes. v1.0.0 frozen April 2026; rolling v1.0.x patch series; v1.1 preview profiles in flight
  • KYE Protocol™ vs Microsoft’s Agent Governance ToolkitA fair, public-facts comparison: Microsoft’s Agent Governance Toolkit governs how you build governed agents; KYE Protocol™ is the vendor-neutral…
  • An API Key Is Not AuthorityA key proves the caller can reach the API; it never proves the caller should have made the call. Where credentials stop and Authority Finality™ begins.
  • Status (KYE Protocol™ Trust Center)Operational status of KYE Protocol™: the service components and open incidents, the daily synthetic journeys of this site and the checks of its last build.
  • KYE™ Human Involvement Plan™KYE™ Human Involvement Plan™: Schema-bound record of points where authorised humans must influence, direct, limit, approve, override or review an AI-enabled…
  • KYE™ Semantic Authority Mapper™KYE™ Semantic Authority Mapper™: Maps OAuth scopes, IAM roles, payment mandates, legal delegations, healthcare consents, API permissions and sector terms into…
  • MCPMCP — Model Context Protocol: Tool / agent communication protocol.