Understand
Understand the rail — concepts, glossary, frameworks.
KYE Protocol™ is the accountability rail for AI-driven action — it admits or refuses every privileged action against a Purpose Permission™ grant and emits a signed Evidence Pack™ anyone can verify offline. Start here with the concepts, glossary, frameworks, and reference material.
Authority tour
ComputedYou learn: How KYE™ decides, who must approve, why the initiator cannot, and what a revocation does, each step verifiable. You can: Walk the three tasks, jump to any step by link, and open the sandbox at the end.
Decision feed
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KYE™ policy decision point
Every agent action, decided with its chain of authority
Recent decisions
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Recent decisionsDara Quinn, head of procurement ApprovalProcurement agent orders above its approval threshold
- Procurement
- Require approval
KYE™ policy decision point ProcurementNeeds approval
Procurement agent orders above its approval threshold
Order 40 pallets of packaging film from Kilnworks Supplies (demo), £18,400
Agent asks, two people approve
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Procurement agent KYE™ policy decision point
Requested action
Order 40 pallets of packaging film from Kilnworks Supplies (demo), £18,400
- procurement.replenish
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Chain of authorityDara Quinn, head of procurement - Principal
- Orrin Logistics (demo)
- Delegate
- Dara Quinn, head of procurement
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- Procurement agent
KYE™ policy decision point
Chain of authority
kye:authority:orrin.example:proc-04-2026q4
procurement.replenish
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KYE™ policy decision pointNeeds approval
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Approval requestFinance controller (demo), second approver - Quorum
- 2 of 2 (two_person)
- Agent
- Cannot approve
- Requested action
- Order 40 pallets of packaging film from Kilnworks Supplies (demo), £18,400
On the approver's deviceProcurement agentDenied
The initiator tries to approve its own request
Refused: the initiator can never approve (maker is not checker)
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Approval requestFinance controller (demo), second approver - Quorum
- 2 of 2 (two_person)
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- Requested action
- Order 40 pallets of packaging film from Kilnworks Supplies (demo), £18,400
On the approver's deviceDara Quinn, head of procurement 1 of 2
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Approval requestFinance controller (demo), second approver - Quorum
- 2 of 2 (two_person)
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- Requested action
- Order 40 pallets of packaging film from Kilnworks Supplies (demo), £18,400
On the approver's deviceFinance controller (demo), second approver 2 of 2Allowed
Approve
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Evidence packOffline verifier (public keys only) - Seal
- kye.decision.record.v1
- Verify
- Decision map hash recomputed in your browser: it matches the sealed record.
SealedKYE™ policy decision point
Decision record and evidence pack sealed
kye.decision.record.v1
Decision map hash recomputed in your browser: it matches the sealed record.
Revoke, deny, verify
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Orrin Logistics (demo) Dara Quinn, head of procurement
Revoke the delegation
kye:authority:orrin.example:procurement-head-2026
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KYE™ policy decision pointDenied
Replay
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Evidence packOffline verifier (public keys only) - Seal
- kye.decision.record.v1
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- Decision map hash recomputed in your browser: it matches the sealed record.
DetailsOffline verifier (public keys only)
Verify
Decision map hash recomputed in your browser: it matches the sealed record.
Try it on your own request
The playground runs the same three-outcome engine and returns a sealed evidence pack you can verify offline.
Open the sandboxHow this widget is built
- Demonstrates
- Decision feed, approvals and evidence packs
- Components
- Policy decision point (evaluate, kye_decide)
- Delegation grants and quorum (two_person)
- Decision records and evidence packs
- Offline verifier
- Flow
- Feed → agent request → chain of authority → require approval → 2 of 2 approvals (never the initiator) → sealed pack → revoke → deny → verify offline. Architecture diagram
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- /examples/: On the examples page; deep links ?task=quorum&step=4 jump to any step.
- /demos/: The demos page: the guided tour runs in place.
- /tour/: The authority tour page.
Full reference index — every page in the understand stage (134) ↓
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134 pages in the understand stage.
This page is a derived view over internal — a secondary projection over the canonical kye-stage enum (the buyer-journey spine). Adding or retagging a page rebuilds this landing on the next CI run — no hand-curated list to maintain.
Learn
Learn — 57 pages
Learn the rail — glossary, frameworks, frameworks-explained.
- A Permit Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine A runtime permit checks the action; it never checks whether the principal held authority to take it. Authority is decided at the boundary — that is Authority Finality™.
- A Trace Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine A trace records what an AI agent did; it holds no grant proving the action was authorised. Authority is decided at the boundary — that is Authority Finality™.
- Adaptive AI Governance Needs a Runtime Authority Layer — Q3 2026 Edition · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ AI governance is converging on a single structural conclusion: written policy and pre-deployment assessment are necessary but not sufficient.
- Agentic Governance™ — the category KYE Protocol™ defines · KYE Protocol™ What is Agentic Governance™? The category KYE Protocol™ defines — governance FOR agentic systems (humans, AI agents, hybrid authority) resolved to Authority Finality™.
- AI Exponential → Runtime Authority — governance at model speed · KYE Protocol™ Why must governance become executable as AI moves exponentially? Policy cycles take years; capability compounds in months — the execution boundary is the only layer fast enough.
- AI governance — 12 do's and don'ts before procurement signs · KYE™ Learn™ Twelve do
- AI Legal Brief: a German court holds an AI provider responsible for its AI's answers — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ 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 — reporting based on publicly available…
- AI Legal Brief: the FSB asks for engineered controls, not well-worded prompts — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ A financial-stability regulator has, in effect, told the market that a paragraph of instructions is not a control — reporting based on publicly available sources, not legal or compliance advice.
- An API Key Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine An API key grants reach to an endpoint; it never grants a per-action verdict on whether the actor was authorised. Authority is decided at the boundary — that is Authority Finality™.
- Analyst Briefing — Agentic Governance™ · KYE Protocol™ What is in the KYE Protocol™ analyst briefing? An Agentic Governance™ category definition, a company fact sheet, and a competitive-landscape map versus adjacent vendors.
- Analyst Category Definition — Agentic Governance™ · KYE Protocol™ How is the Agentic Governance™ category defined for analysts? Governance FOR agentic systems on five primitives — act, authority, purpose, scope, evidence — resolved to finality.
- Authority Court — The Agent on Trial · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine In the Authority Court, the defendant is the agent
- Authority Governance™ — the missing layer of AI governance · KYE Protocol™ What is Authority Governance™? The category KYE Protocol™ defines: governing who is allowed to let an AI take a consequential action — the authority layer above describe-and-monitor AI governance.
- Decision Provenance Is Not Authority Provenance · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine Decision provenance shows how an AI outcome was produced; authority provenance proves the actor was institutionally entitled to cause the effect — settled at the boundary as Authority Finality™.
- Decision-Admissibility Is Not Action-Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine Decision-admissibility validates a decision against a compiled rule; it does not entitle an actor to act. Action-authority is decided at the boundary — that is Authority Finality™.
- Get Certified — KYE™ Certificate Programs · KYE Protocol™ How do I get certified to build governed AI agents? Earn a KYE™ certificate — the Builder credential or its Insurance specialisation — by building an agent whose Evidence Pack™ replays, not by quiz.
- Glossary · KYE™ Learn™ Canonical definitions for AI governance terms — AI governance, delegated authority, Purpose Permission, evidence pack, Replay-Proof, authority gap, shadow mode, four-eyes, and more.
- How KYE™ Works · KYE Protocol™ How does KYE Protocol™ work? It resolves authority before an action, then seals replayable evidence — eight steps: actor, authority, scope, policy, decision, evidence, replay, revocation.
- Identity Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine Agent identity proves who is acting; it does not decide what they may do. Authority is decided at the boundary from the principal
- ISO/IEC 42001 — AI management system, in 8 minutes · KYE™ Learn™ What is ISO/IEC 42001 and how do you certify — clauses 4-10 explained, Annex A
- KYE™ Authority Fellows™ — a free certificate program for under-represented AI practitioners · KYE Protocol™ KYE™ Authority Fellows™ is a free, self-serve authority certificate program for women, minorities, and developing-country AI practitioners — Bronze to Gold via credited contributions.
- KYE™ Authority Pulse™ — what changed in the canon this week — 2026-W26 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ The KYE™ Authority Pulse™ is the weekly bulletin of what changed inside the KYE Protocol™ canon — new governance chapters, new frameworks under mapping, new commercial products, and new governed…
- KYE™ Community™ — the open community for provable AI authority · KYE Protocol™ KYE™ Community™ is a zero-cost open community for AI practitioners learning to prove agent authority — free KYE™ Learn™ courses, the open-source Constitution Kit, and the Authority Fellows™ program.
- KYE™ Consequential Actor™ Framework™ · KYE Protocol™ Not all agents are equal. The KYE™ Consequential Actor™ Framework™ grades AI agents across five levels — L0 Informational to L4 Systemic — by how much governance each requires.
- KYE™ Governed Proposal Authority™: SERPRO Governed Data-Query Partnership · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ KYE™ Governed Proposal Authority™ turns a SERPRO governed data-query partnership context into a deterministic, fully-cited, replay-sealed proposal.
- KYE™ Learn™ · AI governance education centre KYE™ Learn™ — the canonical education centre for AI governance, agentic AI risk, model risk frameworks, and players landscape.
- KYE Protocol™ — Certification program | Five-tier conformance ladder The KYE Protocol™ certification program. Five-tier ladder — Declared → KYE™ Self-Tested™ → KYE™ Self-Attested™ → KYE™ Conformant™ → KYE™ Certified™ — backed by 135 conformance fixtures
- KYE Protocol™ — Concepts | The 6 protocol primitives: Identity, Authority, Scope, State, Audit, On-Behalf-Of The six clickable KYE Protocol™ primitives — Identity, Authority, Scope, State, Audit, On-Behalf-Of — each with its canonical schema, endpoint, JSON example, decision role, audit event
- KYE Protocol™ — Dictionaries — canonical vocabulary Dictionaries are versioned lists of canonical terms — definitions, categories, severities, control mappings. Rules reference dictionaries by reason_code; the Rules Gateway™&trade
- KYE Protocol™ — FAQ Frequently asked questions about KYE Protocol™ — Authority Finality™, conformance, deployment, integration, regulation, governance, profiles, roadmap.
- KYE Protocol™ — Glossary | Plain-English definitions of every protocol term Plain-English definitions of every KYE Protocol™ term: Authority Graph™, Decision Map™, Authority Finality™, on-behalf-of, attenuation, cascade, evidence pack, ePDP, PEP / PDP, decision codes
- KYE Protocol™ — Governance for the AI Web Governance for the AI Web reduces Systemic Authority Risk™ — who authorised what across the web of humans and AI agents — via four products over the existing KYE™ rails.
- KYE Protocol™ — Training & enablement | Engineers · Architects · Auditors · Regulators · Boards Learn KYE™ by your role and your time budget — KYE Protocol™ training. Self-paced learning paths, live workshops (Authority Mapping, Pilot Kickoff, Auditor Replay), train-the-trainer for partners, and
- KYE Protocol™ — Vocabulary | entity types, action types, decision codes, reason codes Canonical KYE Protocol™ vocabulary: entity types, action types, decision codes, reason codes, capability kinds, side-effect levels, data classes, signal types, redaction fields, taxonomies
- Observability Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine Observability watches what an AI agent does; it never decides whether the agent was authorised to act. Authority is settled at the boundary — that is Authority Finality™.
- Open Agent Governance™ Foundation™ — charter & call for participation · KYE Protocol™ What is the Open Agent Governance™ Foundation™? The open working group convened to standardise Agentic Governance™ — shared schemas, evidence-pack formats, and conformance tests.
- Published Reports — KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ Where can I read KYE Protocol™
- Reasoning Control Is Not Authority · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine Inference-time reasoning control shapes a model
- Returns to Expertise: Why Governance Is the Moat — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ As agentic tools get better at execution, the durable value moves to judgment — and judgment, made enforceable at the moment of action, is what governance is.
- Roadmap to AI Adoption in Healthcare — June 2026 Edition · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ Healthcare organisations are adopting AI into clinical and operational decisions — triage, diagnosis support, documentation, scheduling, prior authorisation — while sitting on the most sensitive…
- Roadmap to AI Governance for Financial Services — Q3 2026 Edition · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ Financial institutions are deploying AI into decisions that regulators already supervise — creditworthiness, fraud, market and model risk — faster than their governance programmes can keep up.
- Securing enterprise AI agents: where the controls live, and where authority begins — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ The industry now agrees on how to secure an enterprise AI agent — and that agreement stops one layer short of authority.
- SR 11-7 for AI agents · KYE™ Learn™ How does SR 11-7 model risk guidance apply to AI agents — the four classic categories extended to action risk, the three-line model, documentation expectations, KYE Protocol™ mapping.
- The 26-Hour Governed Run — live · KYE Protocol™ What is the KYE™ 26-Hour Governed Run? A fully autonomous agent working 26 continuous hours with no human in the loop, every action governed and replay-verifiable under KYE Protocol™, streamed live.
- The Agent on Trial · KYE Protocol™ Doctrine A successful AI-agent action is not a legitimate one. The Authority Court puts the action on trial and asks whether it was authorised, in scope, at t=0 — and the verdict is Authority Finality™.
- The authority that outlived its purpose — why standing permission is the quiet governance risk · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ The loudest AI-governance fear is the rogue agent.
- The EU AI Act, explained for AI agents · KYE™ Learn™ What does the EU AI Act actually demand of AI agents — risk tiers, prohibited practices, high-risk obligations, GPAI rules, the four obligations that bite hardest, timeline 2025-2027.
- The KYE Protocol™ Blog · ― Is Not Authority The KYE Protocol™ Blog argues doctrine: the layers mistaken for authority — observability, traces, permits, identity, keys — and the boundary that separates each from Authority Finality™.
- The Map of KYE™ · KYE Protocol™ What is the Map of KYE™? The protocol drawn as a cypress — its canopy is the chain of legitimacy (Purpose to Finality), and selecting a stage lights that foliage.
- The noyb question: proving rights, consent and contestability at execution time — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ Digital-rights enforcement has moved from "do you have a privacy policy?" to "prove what happened" — and most organisations cannot answer at execution time.
- The Research Program — governed, evidence-sealed publishing · KYE Protocol™ What is the Research Program? Governed publishing — no claim without a cited source, every report evidence-sealed and replay-verifiable; institutes co-author via the Publishing Authority Track™.
- The ROI of Governed AI Action — governance is the unlock, not the tax — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ The return on AI is no longer in doubt — and that is precisely why governance is now the constraint that matters.
- The Say-Do Gap in AI Governance: why stated controls fail their first incident — June 2026 · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ There is a measurable gap between what organisations say about their AI governance and what they can actually prove — and that gap is invisible until the first incident, when it becomes the whole…
- The Trust Layer for Consequential Action · KYE Protocol™ What is the trust layer for consequential action? The layer that decides whether an action may proceed, records why, and makes that authority final and provable — KYE Protocol™.
- Turncoat agents: the AI insider threat — and why authority, not trust, is the control · KYE™ Research Library™ · KYE Protocol™ The headline insider threat of 2026 is not a disgruntled employee — it is an AI agent that was manipulated into turning against the organisation that runs it.
- Who's in AI governance — a 2026 map of the players · KYE™ Learn™ Who plays in AI governance — GRC suites, AI-risk newcomers, model-eval platforms, agent-governance specialists — where each falls short and how to choose.
- You present it, you own it — accountability for what AI presents · KYE Protocol™ Who is accountable for an AI answer? The party that presents it as authoritative — KYE Protocol™ records the authority and cited basis so it is provable. Reporting, not legal advice.
Reference
Reference — 77 pages
Look up the canonical definition — schemas, dictionaries, ID format.
- Basel Governance Hub — BCBS 239 per-principle bijection, SR 11-7 / SS1/23 model authority & a live risk-report lineage proof · KYE Protocol™ How does a bank prove BCBS 239 lineage and SR 11-7 / SS1/23 model authority? The hub maps every principle to the KYE™ artefact, event family, and gate that binds it — with a live SHA-256 lineage proof.
- DORA — Digital Operational Resilience Act — KYE Protocol™ DORA — Digital Operational Resilience Act: control mappings to KYE Protocol™ canonical artefacts. Financial entities in the EU — credit institutions, payment institutions, e-money institutions, inve…
- Entity Hierarchy — KYE Protocol™ The v3 KYE Protocol™ entity containment tree: Tenant siblings, Workspace siblings, and first-class Model, Tool, External App, and Audit Stream entities — each with its own ID, state machine
- EU AI Act — Articles 14 + 15 (Human Oversight + Accuracy/Robustness) — KYE Protocol™ EU AI Act — Articles 14 + 15 (Human Oversight + Accuracy/Robustness): control mappings to KYE Protocol™ canonical artefacts.
- ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — AI Management Systems — KYE Protocol™ ISO/IEC 42001:2023 — AI Management Systems: control mappings to KYE Protocol™ canonical artefacts. Any organisation that provides, develops, or uses AI systems — irrespective of sector. The first for…
- KYE™ Authority Finality™ Diagnostic — 24 questions, 6 lenses, regulator-grade signed report Authority Finality™ Diagnostic — 24 questions × 6 lenses scoring your agentic AI authority posture. Free score in IDE; signed report envelope (3 / month / email free; unlimited on paid pilot).
- KYE™ Data Governance Pack™ — runtime data governance for delegated AI actions KYE™ Data Governance Pack™ — runtime data governance for delegated AI-agent actions. data_use PDP stage + 7 default-deny rules + 501 dictionaries + signed evidence per access
- KYE™ DSAR Evidence™ Pack™ — signed, offline-verifiable subject access response KYE™ DSAR Evidence™ Pack™ — signed bundle of every audit-chain entry involving a named data subject. GDPR Art. 15 / UK DPA Pt 3 Ch 3 / CCPA. Offline-verifiable by the requesting subject
- KYE™ GovernedUI™ — Seven governance modules Buyers — what are the seven KYE™ GovernedUI™ modules? Action Approval, Entity Passport, Authority Scope, Critical Point Review, Evidence Timeline, Approval Queue, Authority Drift.
- KYE™ Informed Approval™ — No blind approvals for AI-agent actions No blind approvals for AI-agent actions — KYE™ Approval Brief™ assembles actor, principal, authority, scope, state, and risk into a structured, signed brief — so human approvers decide informed
- KYE Protocol™ — Acceptable Use Policy (v1.0) KYE Protocol™ Acceptable Use Policy. Prohibited uses, prohibited content, automated-behaviour limits, security obligations, abuse reporting, suspension.
- KYE Protocol™ — Action Admissibility™ · before authority, before commit KYE™ Action Admissibility™ Profile™ — checks whether a proposed action is admissible into the authority pipeline before any authority, formal-rule or commit-boundary check runs. Six decision values
- KYE Protocol™ — Apache 2.0 Licence The public KYE Protocol™ schemas, OpenAPI definitions, examples and SDKs are released under the Apache License 2.0. This page reproduces the full text.
- KYE Protocol™ — Brand kit · canonical reference KYE Protocol™ brand kit: master logo, indigo brand colour (#6366f1), charcoal ink, type, spacing, clear-space and the misuse list. Source of truth for every surface.
- KYE Protocol™ — Change Calendar · forward-looking customer change notices Procurement: when planned KYE™ changes take effect — 90-day breaking-change notice, 30-day sub-processor notice, 7-day maintenance notice. Machine-readable at /change-calendar.json.
- KYE Protocol™ — Changelog · dated release notes for v1.0 and v1.1 preview Upgrade your build here s what s new — KYE Protocol™ chronological release notes. v1.0.0 frozen April 2026; rolling v1.0.x patch series; v1.1 preview profiles in flight. Per-release scope, breaking-ch
- KYE Protocol™ — CKAN & Open Data Portal Consultants Find consultants who can deploy, migrate, extend and govern CKAN-based data portals with KYE Protocol™ authority, evidence, control mapping and audit-ready publication workflows
- KYE Protocol™ — Compliance frameworks | 13 horizontal (SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, PSD3, DORA, NIS2, EU AI Act, ISO 42001, NIST) + 5 sectoral (HIPAA, MiCA, FFIEC, IEC 62443, 42 CFR Part 2) Per-framework reference: which KYE Protocol™ controls map to which obligation, with framework scope, official source, and the canonical KYE™ Compliance Mapping Rail™ binding.
- KYE Protocol™ — Continuity Module™ · preserve authorised meaning across delegation The KYE™ Continuity Module™ checks whether the authorised meaning of an action survives delegation, interpretation, memory, context, incentives, timing
- KYE Protocol™ — Continuity Profile · preserve the chain from intent to action KYE™ Continuity Profile™ preserves the chain between intent, interpretation, delegated authority, state, decision, execution and evidence. Detect intent drift, authority drift, scope drift
- KYE Protocol™ — Cookie Policy (v1.0) KYE Protocol™ Cookie Policy. No first-party cookies, no analytics or advertising trackers; a few localStorage keys for theme and update read-state; strictly-necessary host security cookies only.
- KYE Protocol™ — Data Processing Addendum (v1.0) KYE Protocol™ Data Processing Addendum, GDPR Article 28 compliant. SCCs incorporated, sub-processor list, security measures, data-subject rights handling, return/deletion on termination.
- KYE Protocol™ — Decision Engine · step 6 of the KYE™ stack What is the KYE™ Decision Engine? Step 6 PDP that walks the Authority Graph™, evaluates vocabulary-bound predicates, runs continuity + discoverability checks, and emits a signed Decision Map™.
- KYE Protocol™ — Discoverability Profile · make delegated agency findable Make delegated agency findable — KYE™ Discoverability Profile™ turns the authority graph into a policy-filtered discovery layer for entities, agents, capabilities, delegations, decisions, evidence pack
- KYE Protocol™ — Documentation hub · curated reading order KYE Protocol™ documentation: vocabulary, ID format, schemas, SDKs, conformance pack, sector profiles, whitepaper. Curated reading order.
- KYE Protocol™ — Event-driven by constitution Buyer — what makes KYE Protocol™ different from Vanta / Drata / AWS Config? Event-driven by constitution, not by cron. 38 event families declared, 16 post-facto-forbidden, CI gate enforces it.
- KYE Protocol™ — Evidence Pack™ · step 8 of the KYE™ stack KYE™ Evidence Pack™ — the signed, replayable bundle of audit-chain entries, Decision Maps™, signatures and public-key set that a regulator or auditor verifies offline
- KYE Protocol™ — For regulators & legal how do you verify any vendor
- KYE Protocol™ — Formal Rules · rights, obligations, prohibitions, powers KYE™ Formal Rules Profile™ — model permissions, obligations, prohibitions, powers, exceptions and governance meta-rules as machine-readable authority objects. KYE™ Gateway™ enforces them at runtime
- KYE Protocol™ — Integrations · what KYE™ composes with KYE™ doesn t replace your stack it binds authority across it — What KYE Protocol™ composes with: OAuth/OIDC, SAML, SPIFFE/SPIRE, mTLS, passkeys, OPA, Cerbos, Cedar, MCP, AuthZEN, payment rails, KYC/KY
- KYE Protocol™ — Knowledge graph · step 5 of the KYE™ stack KYE™ knowledge graph — the live, instance-level graph of entities, authorities, delegations, capabilities, scopes, decisions and evidence. Step 5 of the canonical 8-step KYE™ stack
- KYE Protocol™ — KYE™ CKAN Connector™ Govern CKAN datasets, resources, harvests, metadata changes and publication workflows with KYE Protocol™ authority, purpose, evidence and replay. V1 read-only + advisory; V2 write-back
- KYE Protocol™ — KYE™ Connector Profiles™ | Commerce · Payment · Open Finance · Health · Pension · Agent Runtime · Security · Compliance Evidence · Legal KYE™ Connector Profiles™ make authority portable across 11 domain families — Commerce, Payment, Open Finance, Health, Pension, Agent Runtime, Security & SIEM, Compliance Evidence, Insurance
- KYE Protocol™ — KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™ | MCP tools, webhook verifiers, policy packs, evidence exporters The KYE™ Plugin Marketplace™. Install lightweight plugins for MCP tools, webhook verification, policy adapters, evidence exports, conformance tests, sandbox flows, dashboard widgets
- KYE Protocol™ — Legal · what's open, what's protected, what you can build Everything is open — Plain-English legal page: Apache 2.0 across schemas, SDKs, OpenAPI, conformance, reference Gateway. Patent-track mechanism algorithms and KYE™ trademarks are protected. FAQ on lic
- KYE Protocol™ — Manifests — installable / verifiable / sellable units Every installable / verifiable / billable unit in KYE™ is a signed manifest. Connectors, widgets, SKUs, rule packs, sector packs, MCP tools, proof bundles, consultants
- KYE Protocol™ — Mutual Evaluation Agreement (v1.0) KYE Protocol™ Mutual Evaluation Agreement: compulsory clickwrap confidentiality and no-competing-use terms accepted in every pilot, PoC, partner, trainer and auditor intake, pinned by version hash.
- KYE Protocol™ — NIST 800-53 Rev 5 hub (universal control taxonomy) NIST 800-53 Rev 5 is the universal hub KYE Protocol™ uses as the canonical control taxonomy. Every regulatory framework crosswalks INTO this hub. One hop, deterministic, machine-readable.
- KYE Protocol™ — Ontology Profile · semantic authority across systems KYE™ Ontology Profile™ is the semantic layer of KYE™ — shared meaning of entities, authorities, capabilities, scopes, states, decisions, evidence, profiles, connectors and sectors. Map OAuth scopes
- KYE Protocol™ — Open Data & Data Portals Public-sector portals, regulator data portals, smart-city hubs, research catalogues, health data catalogues, NGO portals, infrastructure transparency portals
- KYE Protocol™ — Operating Model Profile · readiness to runtime control KYE™ Operating Model Profile™ — the enterprise adoption layer of KYE™. From use-case intake to readiness, authority records, authority gates, commit boundaries, runtime decisions
- KYE Protocol™ — OSCAL compatibility | NIST 800-53A · FedRAMP · component definition · SSP · assessment results KYE Protocol™ is OSCAL-native: every signed evidence pack maps deterministically to NIST OSCAL component-definition, system-security-plan and assessment-results documents. The mapping spec
- KYE Protocol™ — Press · media kit KYE Protocol™ press kit: boilerplate, logo, screenshots, contact for journalists / analysts / partners.
- KYE Protocol™ — 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 Articles 15-22, international transfers
- KYE Protocol™ — Profiles — 10 canonical conformance modes KYE™ has 10 canonical profiles, locked by constitution. Profiles define the conformance contract an implementation MUST support; behavioural logic lives in rule packs
- KYE Protocol™ — Regulatory coverage · 249 frameworks, 446/853 requirement groups Enforced Regulatory coverage map for 249 frameworks: 446 of 853 requirement groups Enforced at runtime, 254 Designed, 153 Out of scope — all projected from one schema-backed registry.
- KYE Protocol™ — Risk & mitigation | Threat model · failure modes · operational guarantees What can go wrong — The KYE Protocol™ threat model: signing-key compromise, registry availability, false-positive denials, time-skew, replay, supply-chain risk
- KYE Protocol™ — Roadmap · v1.0 · v1.1 preview · v2.0 horizon v1 — KYE Protocol™ roadmap with dated milestones — v1.0 frozen April 2026, v1.0.x patch series, v1.1 preview profiles (Conformance Certification, Authority Graph™, Payload Trust, Self-Audit Attestation
- KYE Protocol™ — Rule packs — behavioural logic Rule packs are bundles of rules — condition + effect + reason code — loaded by the Rules Gateway™ at request time. Sector packs, compliance regimes
- KYE Protocol™ — Schemas · step 4 of the KYE™ stack KYE™ schemas — JSON Schema 2020-12 contracts that validate every payload at runtime. Step 4 of the canonical 8-step KYE™ stack. 103 published schemas
- KYE Protocol™ — Security · responsible disclosure · threat model · supply chain KYE Protocol™ responsible-disclosure page. How you report a vulnerability, what the response SLA looks like, and which supply-chain controls run against the repository
- KYE Protocol™ — Self-Governance · the protocol governs itself The KYE Protocol™ governs itself under its own contract. Every privileged action emits the same signed evidence-pack family any customer would. Patent-safe envelopes; public JWKS.
- KYE Protocol™ — Sitemap Every page on the KYE Protocol™ public site, with a one-line description of each.
- KYE Protocol™ — State Library · open-source state machines for every regulated industry KYE™ State Library™ — open-source, versioned, signed reference state machines for 9 regulated industries. Adopt for your tenant, derive tightened variants, replay in audit
- KYE Protocol™ — Sub-processor list (v1.0) Sub-processors — KYE Protocol™ sub-processor list. Cloudflare for hosting, Pages Functions, D1, R2, KV, Workers AI, AI Gateway and Email Routing.
- KYE Protocol™ — Taxonomies · step 2 of the KYE™ stack KYE™ taxonomies — parent / child classification of the names in the KYE™ vocabulary
- KYE Protocol™ — 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.
- KYE Protocol™ — Trust Center · what is verifiable, by whom, today KYE Protocol™ Trust Center — the procurement-grade summary. What is verifiable today (with reproducible commands), what is in progress, what requires external attestation. Hardening register
- KYE Protocol™ for Australia — runtime authority for sovereign AI (APRA CPS 230 · AI Guardrails · Privacy Act 1988 · ASD Essential Eight) Australian organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under APRA CPS 230, the AI Guardrails, the Privacy Act 1988 and the ASD Essential Eight — Australian-sovereign deployable.
- KYE Protocol™ for Canada — runtime authority for sovereign AI (PIPEDA · PHIPA · Health Canada · OSFI · FINTRAC) Canadian organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under PIPEDA, PHIPA, Health Canada SaMD, OSFI and FINTRAC — bijection-mapped + Canadian-sovereign deployable.
- KYE Protocol™ for Japan — runtime authority for sovereign AI (APPI · FSA AI · PMDA SaMD) Japanese organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under the APPI, the FSA
- KYE Protocol™ for New Zealand — runtime authority for sovereign AI (Privacy Act 2020 · RBNZ BS11 · Algorithm Charter) New Zealand organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under the Privacy Act 2020, RBNZ BS11 and the Algorithm Charter — bijection-mapped + New-Zealand-sovereign deployable.
- KYE Protocol™ for Singapore — runtime authority for sovereign AI (MAS TRM · AI Verify · MAS FEAT) Singapore organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under the MAS TRM Guidelines, IMDA AI Verify and the MAS FEAT principles — bijection-mapped + Singapore-sovereign deployable.
- KYE Protocol™ for the EU — runtime authority for the AI Act, GDPR, DORA, NIS2 EU organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under the AI Act, GDPR, DORA, NIS2 and EDPB guidance — bijection-mapped + deployable on EU-sovereign regions.
- KYE Protocol™ for the Gulf — runtime authority for sovereign AI (UAE · KSA · Bahrain · Qatar) Gulf organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under UAE PDPL, Saudi PDPL, Bahrain PDPL, Qatar PDPL, SAMA AI, DIFC and ADGM — sovereign-deployable on the customer
- KYE Protocol™ for the public sector — runtime authority for citizen-facing AI Public-sector AI: runtime authority and signed evidence for citizen-facing AI under ATRS, OECD AI Principles, NIST AI RMF and public-sector AI assurance — sovereign deployment, offline verifier.
- KYE Protocol™ for the UK — runtime authority for sovereign AI (FCA · PRA · MHRA · NHS · DSIT) UK organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under FCA, PRA, MHRA, NHS, DSIT and HAARF — bijection-mapped and deployable on UK-sovereign regions.
- KYE Protocol™ for the United States — runtime authority for sovereign AI (HIPAA · FDA · OCC · NYDFS · SEC · CISA) US organisations: runtime authority and signed evidence for AI under HIPAA, FDA SaMD, OCC, NYDFS Part 500, SEC, FFIEC, NIST AI RMF — bijection-mapped + US-sovereign deployable.
- KYE Protocol™ Trust Center — live receipts, signed evidence, open verifier Trust Center: every KYE Protocol™ claim is pointable to a live artefact — signed self-audit receipts, framework coverage attestations, JWKS, and the responsible-disclosure contract.
- KYE™ Reality Coupling™ — stable-drift detection for delegated AI actions Authorised — KYE™ Reality Coupling™ detects stable drift — when a delegated AI action remains locally valid (authority OK, purpose OK, scope OK
- KYE™ Scenario Testing™ — Future-state testing for delegated AI actions KYE™ Scenario Testing™ runs a proposed agent action through a deterministic stress evaluator before it executes — surfacing risk, recommended controls
- PCI DSS v4.0 — Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard — KYE Protocol™ PCI DSS v4.0 — Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard: control mappings to KYE Protocol™ canonical artefacts.
- Platform Map · 3D component diagnostic · KYE Protocol™ Interactive 3D platform map: every canonical KYE™ component as a dot on a rotatable dotted globe (longitude=stage · shell=rail), coloured by connectivity health — islands & broken chains.
- Software Constitution Standard · KYE Protocol™ The Software Constitution Standard is a language-agnostic specification for projects that want to enforce their own design principles at CI time, with versioned rules and drift gates.
- SR 11-7 — Model Risk Management — KYE Protocol™ SR 11-7 — Model Risk Management: control mappings to KYE Protocol™ canonical artefacts. Banking — model risk management for all regulated banking organisations supervised by the Federal Re…
- State Registry — KYE Protocol™ State as a first-class primitive in KYE Protocol™: every entity carries a registered state machine; every transition is evidence-guarded and append-only
- Taxonomy Color Key — one hue per component family · KYE Protocol™ What does each colour mean across KYE Protocol™? Every top-level component family has one WCAG-AA hue, light and dark: sector blue, framework violet, program teal, agent amber, sku green, and more.
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Canonical KYE™ surfaces referenced on this page: Audit Pilot · Authority Graph™ · KYE™ Conformance Pack™ · KYE™ GovernedUI.