Audience: Legal counsel

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The platform 5 pages

ProfilesKYE™ has 10 canonical profiles, locked by constitution. Profiles define the conformance contract an implementation MUST support
Whitepaper v1.0The KYE Protocol™ whitepaper: an open contract for identity, authority and audit across humans, businesses, AI agents, services, models and workflows
Execution ArchitectureThe KYE Protocol™ 10-layer execution architecture. KYE™ OWNS Authority Resolution + Evidence Finality™. KYE™ INTEGRATES with observability, model-eval, compute…
The Business Case for Authority Finality™The internal-memo business case for Authority Finality™: inventories, policies and committee approvals don't prove authorised action. KYE Protocol™ proves each…
You present it, you own itWhen an AI answer is presented as authoritative, responsibility tends to sit with the party that presented it — not the sources, not the reader. KYE Protocol™…

Products 5 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™ Connector Profiles™KYE™ Connector Profiles™ make authority portable across 11 domain families — Commerce, Payment, Open Finance, Health, Pension, Agent Runtime, Security &…
KYE™ Sector PacksBrowse every KYE™ Authority Pack™ by sector — finance, health & life sciences, public sector, legal, industrial and cross-industry. Each pack governs an AI…
KYE™ Chargeback Evidence Agent™KYE™ Chargeback Evidence Agent™ — a bounded, single-purpose KYE™ Governed Agent™ that governed card-dispute evidence. It is a first-class principal…
KYE™ Legal Action Authority Agent™KYE™ Legal Action Authority Agent™ — a bounded, single-purpose KYE™ Governed Agent™ that govern execute/sign/release decisions. It is a first-class principal…

By sector 6 pages

KYE™ Chargeback Evidence™KYE™ Chargeback Evidence™ governs the authority and evidence of the card-dispute / chargeback flow: who authorised the refund, the representment, or the…
KYE™ Contract Workflow Authority Pack™The KYE™ Contract Workflow Authority Pack™ — a KYE™ Sector Pack Foundry™ expert-pack for UK legal practice. Binds every AI-assisted contract action to an open…
KYE™ Litigation Evidence & Discovery Pack™The KYE™ Litigation Evidence & Discovery Pack™ governs the authority and evidence of AI-assisted litigation and discovery so it is defensible when challenged…
Legal sectorThe evidence layer that makes legal accountability for AI agents possible. Subpoena response in 48h. Agent-as-contracting-party contracts enforceable. UNCITRAL…
KYE™ Publisher Access Ledger™The KYE™ Publisher Access Ledger™ operates the Movement for an Open Web (MOW) Search Only Terms Contract (SOC): classify every automated access against the…
KYE™ Whistleblower & Speak-Up Authority Pack™The KYE™ Whistleblower & Speak-Up Authority Pack™ governs the authority and evidence of AI-assisted whistleblower / speak-up intake, triage, and case-handling…

Compliance, conformance & certification 7 pages

Example reports by roleOne shelf of representative report envelopes, one per stakeholder — auditor, board, CISO, consultant, customer, dispute resolution, DPO, general counsel…
Dispute stakeholder reportRepresentative report envelope for a Dispute Resolution / Litigation Support. Synthetic tenant — Single-decision subpoena response · supplier-payment dispute…
GC stakeholder reportRepresentative report envelope for a General Counsel / Head of Legal. Synthetic tenant — Agent-as-contracting-party posture · delegation chain audit…
KYE™ regulator probeA regulator / auditor / dispute-panel playbook for verifying a KYE-anchored decision offline using only the publisher's JWKS
Mastercard Chargeback StandardsMastercard Chargeback Standards — Dispute Resolution & Arbitration coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that…
MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC)MOW Search Only Terms Contract (SOC) — publisher content-access authority coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact…
PSD2 SCA & Unauthorised-Transaction Liability (Arts. 72-74, 97)PSD2 SCA & Unauthorised-Transaction Liability (Arts. 72-74, 97) coverage by KYE Protocol™ — every requirement bijection-mapped to the KYE™ artefact that…

Solutions 4 pages

For regulators & legalReplayable, signed proof of who or what acted, on whose authority. Vendor-neutral, public-key-verifiable
For CFOsKYE Protocol™ gives CFOs Purpose Permission™ grants that bind every agent-driven spend, settlement, and contract to declared scope — refusals are signed…
For CounselKYE Protocol™ gives counsel a signed Decision Map™ per privileged action — every grant, delegation, scope, policy, and refusal recorded and replay-proof…
Send authority for AI agents with mailboxesAI agents now get their own inboxes from agent-mailbox providers. The KYE™ Agent Comms Authority Profile™ governs what they may do with them: drafting is free…

Developer portal 18 pages

Consultant Program™ APIKYE Protocol™ — Consultant Program™ API: 37 operations from consultant-programme.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
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™ 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™ Data Governance Pack™ APIKYE™ Data Governance Pack™ API: 7 operations from data-governance.openapi.yaml, a published KYE Protocol™ OpenAPI contract.
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.
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™ (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 1 page

TrainersThe KYE Protocol™ Certified Trainer Program — train customer teams, consultants, and auditors on the open KYE Protocol™ contract.

Resources 17 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…
Acceptable Use Policy (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Acceptable Use Policy. Prohibited uses, prohibited content, automated-behaviour limits, security obligations, abuse reporting, suspension.
Apache 2.0 LicenceThe public KYE Protocol™ schemas, OpenAPI definitions, examples and SDKs are released under the Apache License 2.0. This page reproduces the full text.
Data Processing Addendum (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Data Processing Addendum, GDPR Article 28 compliant. SCCs incorporated, sub-processor list, security measures, data-subject rights…
Privacy Policy (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Privacy Policy. Data controller: KYE Protocol Ltd. Data we collect, lawful basis, retention, sub-processors, data subject rights under GDPR…
Sub-processor list (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ sub-processor list. Cloudflare for hosting, Pages Functions, D1, R2, KV, Workers AI, AI Gateway and Email Routing.
Terms of Service (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Terms of Service — minimum-viable B2B SaaS terms for the Audit Pilot program. Governing law: England & Wales. Notices: info@kyeprotocol.com.
Authority CourtA courtroom dramatization of Authority Finality™. The defendant is the agent's action, not the agent; the charge is whether the institution's mandate was…
AI Legal BriefA financial-stability regulator has, in effect, told the market that a paragraph of instructions is not a control — reporting based on publicly available…
AI Legal Brief (KYE™ Research Library™)A German court has held that an AI provider is responsible for the answers its AI presents, and that the responsibility cannot be shifted to the reader…
Cookie Policy (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Cookie Policy. This site sets no first-party cookies and runs no third-party analytics or advertising trackers. Local-storage keys…
Legal noticesThe notices that apply to KYE Protocol™ material on this site and in our emails: who it is for, and what it is not.
Mutual Evaluation Agreement (v1.0)KYE Protocol™ Mutual Evaluation and Confidentiality Agreement. The clickwrap terms accepted in every pilot, PoC, partner, trainer and auditor intake — mutual…
Agent-as-Contracting-PartyAgent-as-Contracting-Party: The legal posture in which an AI agent's authority — the delegation it acts under, the purpose-permission it is scoped to, the…
Approval modesApproval modes: Locked set (§36 §6): none , single_approver , two_person , two_person_with_legal , delegated , auto (forbidden at high+ risk).
KYE™ Contract-to-Authority Mapper™KYE™ Contract-to-Authority Mapper™: Phase-2 — extracts permissions, obligations, prohibitions and powers from contracts, policies and mandates into KYE™ formal…
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…