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The platform 2 pages

  • ProfilesKYE™ has 10 canonical profiles, locked by constitution. Profiles define the conformance contract an implementation MUST support
  • TaxonomiesKYE™ taxonomies — parent / child classification of the names in the KYE™ vocabulary. Step 2 of the canonical 8-step KYE™ stack: Dictionaries → Taxonomies →…

Developer portal 40 pages

  • DictionariesDictionaries are versioned lists of canonical terms — definitions, categories, severities, control mappings
  • ManifestsEvery installable / verifiable / billable unit in KYE™ is a signed manifest. Connectors, widgets, SKUs, rule packs, sector packs, MCP tools, proof bundles…
  • SchemasKYE™ schemas — JSON Schema 2020-12 contracts that validate every payload at runtime. Step 4 of the canonical 8-step KYE™ stack
  • VocabularyCanonical KYE Protocol™ vocabulary: entity types, action types, decision codes, reason codes, capability kinds, side-effect levels, data classes, signal…
  • Documentation hubKYE Protocol™ documentation: vocabulary, ID format, schemas, SDKs, conformance pack, sector profiles, whitepaper. Curated reading order.
  • 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…
  • 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…
  • 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™ 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.
  • 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.
  • 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…