COG-1: Architecture
This standard specifies the overall design and architecture of the Covia Open Grid.
COG-2: Decentralised ID
This standard specifies the methods for identifying venues and other resources on the grid
COG-3: Authentication Mechanisms
This document specifies the catalogue of authentication mechanisms a venue may offer (public access, bearer tokens, HTTP Basic, OAuth 2.0, Ed25519 self-issued JWTs, UCAN identity tokens for relayed requests) and how clients use them. For how a specific venue implements identity verification and access control — the middleware verification order, venue-signed tokens, and OAuth provider configuration — see COG-10 Agent Capabilities.
COG-4: Grid Lattice
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-5: Asset Metadata
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-6: Artifacts
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-7: Operations
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-8: Jobs
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-9: Agent Messaging
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-10: Venue Authentication & Access Control
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-11: Agent Lifecycle
This specification is an exploratory draft describing agent lifecycle patterns that are under active development. The concepts, interfaces, and behaviours described here are subject to significant change as the design evolves through implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-12: Orchestrations
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-13: Agent Capabilities
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-14: A2A Agent Interoperability
This specification is under active development and is not yet implemented. Structure and details may change based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-15: Cross-Venue Federation
This document specifies how requests, authority, and caller identity cross venue boundaries on the Covia Grid. It builds on the authentication catalogue of COG-3 Agent Capabilities (UCAN delegation, root authority, the venue/relay ability). It introduces no new trust primitive — federation composes the existing ones.
COG-16: Human-in-the-Loop Requests
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-17: Capability Granting
This specification is under active development. Structure and details may change significantly based on implementation experience and community feedback.
COG-18: Agent Skills
A skill is an ordinary asset Asset Metadata and its body is content as defined by COG-6 Agent Capabilities. This document introduces no new asset type, no new authority primitive, and no new trust relationship — it specifies a discovery and loading convention over existing ones.
COG-19: HITL Self-Sovereign Token Transport
This standard extends Human-in-the-Loop requests (COG-16) with one