OpenKedge
Roadmap

Building the governance infrastructure for autonomous systems.

The OpenKedge Initiative follows a phased publication and implementation roadmap — from foundational protocol, through trust primitives, to enterprise-scale deployment.

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Planned publications

6

Published papers

2

OSS on GitHub

Initiative Phases

Phase 1Complete

Foundation

Define the core protocol, formalize the governed action pipeline, and publish the foundational research.

Phase 2Complete

Trust & Verification

Establish trust primitives — execution identity, evidence chains, and protocol-driven development.

Phase 3In Progress

Enterprise Scale

Deliver the reference architecture and adoption blueprint for cloud, hybrid, and edge operations.

Protocol

Specify how intents, contracts, policies, identities, and evidence fit together.

Verification

Make execution lineage inspectable, portable, and strong enough for regulated operations.

Deployment

Describe the runtime boundaries needed when autonomous systems operate across real institutions.

Publication Sequence

Paper 5In ProgressQ3 2026Phase 3
Assurance framework

Certified Autonomous Systems

Collective Approval and Assurance for Sovereign AI Infrastructure

Defines: Multi-signature consensus governance

Establishes a cryptographically signed collective approval framework where multi-agent orchestrations are validated by consensus-driven assurance loops.

Whitepaper 2PublishedMay 2026Phase 3
Sovereign deployment

From Sovereign Compute to Sovereign Execution

A Control-Plane Architecture for Saudi Arabia's National AI Infrastructure

Defines: National-scale execution boundaries and policy federation

A sovereign-scale adoption blueprint tailored for Saudi Arabia Vision 2030, establishing multi-ministry policy federation and checked governance nodes.

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Whitepaper 1PublishedMay 22, 2026Phase 3
Reference architecture

The Autonomous State Control Plane

A Reference Architecture for Sovereign AI Systems

Defines: End-to-end adoption blueprint

Connects the primitives into an implementation map for cloud, hybrid, and edge operations that require auditability by design.

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Paper 3PublishedMay 15, 2026Phase 2
Trust primitives

Verifiable Agentic Infrastructure

Execution Identity and Evidence Chains at Scale

Defines: Execution Identity and standardized Evidence Chains

Defines how execution authority is scoped to a task, and how evidence becomes a portable record of what was approved and what happened.

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SkillPublishedMay 14, 2026Phase 2
Tooling

PDD Protocol Author

Defines: AI skill for PDD

An AI skill that turns ambiguous human-language software requirements into Protocol-Driven Development bundles.

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Paper 4PublishedMay 13, 2026Phase 2
Development model

Protocol-Driven Development

Governing Generated Software Through Invariants and Evidence

Defines: Machine-enforceable protocols

Defines a development model in which the primary software artifact is a machine-enforceable protocol rather than implementation code.

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Paper 2PublishedApr 24, 2026Phase 1
Deployment model

Sovereign Agentic Loops: Decoupling AI Reasoning from Execution in Real-World Systems

Defines: Boundary enforcement and national-scale topologies

Shows how OpenKedge can be deployed across regulated, multi-organization environments without granting AI unchecked infrastructure power.

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OSS CorePublishedApr 10, 2026Phase 1
Infrastructure

OpenKedge Protocol

Defines: Reference implementation

The open-source reference implementation of the OpenKedge protocol, providing the control plane for execution-bound safety and evidence chains.

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Paper 1PublishedApr 10, 2026Phase 1
Foundation

OpenKedge

Defines: Control plane abstraction and IEEC

Establishes the protocol layer that turns AI requests into governed, boundary-scoped infrastructure action.

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