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<div class="section-label">Verified ecosystem evidence</div>
<div class="section-title">Relationships the public record supports</div>
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<p class="lead-copy">Every organization named here has a traceable relationship through an official OPAQUE publication, a public open-source repository, or an explicit AgenTrust partner statement. The label on each card states that relationship precisely; none implies blanket endorsement of the full stack.</p>
<p class="lead-copy">Every organization named here has a traceable relationship through a public announcement, open-source repository, or explicit AgenTrust partner statement. The label on each card states that relationship precisely; sponsorship, partnership, contribution, and adoption are distinct relationships, and none implies blanket endorsement of the full stack.</p>
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<div class="partner-logo-wrap"><img src="/assets/lf-logo-stacked-color.svg" alt="The Linux Foundation" loading="lazy"></div>
<div><div class="partner-kicker">Neutral host</div><h3>TRACE Specification is an LF Project</h3><p>TRACE is hosted at the Linux Foundation as its own series, <strong>TRACE Specification, a Series of LF Projects, LLC</strong>. The specification, its IP, its trademark, and the conformance mark sit with the series under the Community Specification License and <a href="https://lfprojects.org/policies/">LF Projects policies</a>, so no single vendor decides what conformance means.</p><a class="evidence-link" href="https://github.com/agentrust-io/trace-spec/blob/main/GOVERNANCE.md">Read the project governance ↗</a></div>
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<div class="adopter-mark">OPAQUE Systems</div>
<div class="adopter-stage">Founding engineering and infrastructure sponsor</div>
<p>OPAQUE provides funding, engineering time, infrastructure, and confidential-computing contributions. Sponsorship does not confer ownership of AgenTrust projects or governance authority over their technical decisions.</p>
<a class="evidence-link" href="https://github.com/agentrust-io">Review the public project record ↗</a>
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<div class="adopter-mark microsoft-mark">Microsoft</div>
<div class="adopter-stage">Open-source project home</div>
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<p class="lead-copy">AgenTrust develops in public through open repositories, reviewable proposals, implementation evidence, and conformance testing. The goal is not simply to publish specifications: it is to create a contributor community capable of operating, improving, and stewarding the technology.</p>
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<article class="governance-card"><div class="governance-role">Technical stewardship</div><h3>Imran Siddique</h3><p>AgenTrust / Opaque Systems<br>Architecture, implementation, conformance, and maintainer development.</p></article>
<article class="governance-card"><div class="governance-role">Technical stewardship</div><h3>Imran Siddique</h3><p>AgenTrust<br>Architecture, implementation, conformance, and maintainer development.</p></article>
<article class="governance-card"><div class="governance-role">Governance &amp; sustainability</div><h3>XRSI</h3><p>Named organizational partner for community governance, ecosystem adoption, and long-term sustainability. Individual committee appointments will be published only after confirmation.</p></article>
<article class="governance-card open-seat"><div class="governance-role">Committee formation</div><h3>Community seats</h3><p>Adopter, maintainer, research, and public-interest representation will be added as the steering model is formalized.</p></article>
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<div class="qa-q">Are the AgenTrust standards open source?</div>
<div class="qa-a">Yes, though not all under one licence. Agent Manifest and the TRACE conformance suite are Apache 2.0, cMCP and cA2A are MIT, and the TRACE specification text is CC BY 4.0 with its reference code under Apache 2.0. Source, schemas, and examples are on GitHub at github.com/agentrust-io.</div>
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<div class="qa-q">What is OPAQUE Systems' role in AgenTrust?</div>
<div class="qa-a">OPAQUE Systems is a founding engineering and infrastructure sponsor and an active contributor. Sponsorship itself does not grant ownership or governance authority. Each project's licence, charter, maintainer list, and published governance process define its legal and technical stewardship.</div>
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Work happens in public through open repositories, reviewable proposals, implementation evidence, and conformance testing. Neutral standards homes are interoperability pathways; implementations, integrations, testing, documentation, training, adoption support, and maintainer succession make the technology useful and durable.

## Sponsorship and governance

OPAQUE Systems is a founding engineering and infrastructure sponsor of AgenTrust and an active contributor. It provides funding, engineering time, infrastructure, and confidential-computing contributions. Sponsorship does not confer ownership of AgenTrust projects or governance authority over technical decisions. Each project's licence, charter, maintainer list, and published governance process define its legal and technical stewardship. Sponsorship, partnership, contribution, and adoption are distinct relationships.

## Open technology

- [AgenTrust Telemetry](https://agentrust-io.com/telemetry/): A backend-neutral, metadata-only contract and Python and TypeScript reference SDKs for policy decisions, approval lifecycles, action execution, classified data flow, usage and cost, and evidence lifecycle. It composes with caller-owned OpenTelemetry and can finalize complete durable evidence into TRACE. Alpha `0.1.0-alpha.1`; packages are not yet published.
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