CROSS-VENDOR OUTCOME FINALITY

Every vendor can verify its own agent. Who verifies the ending?

Finality provides a neutral, portable cross-vendor mechanism for determining and communicating whether the whole consequential outcome is actually final.

Inspect Profile Finality Gateway

The decisive boundary

Local success can be true while the whole ending remains false.

Authorization, agent completion and workflow closure remain evidence inputs. The Outcome Contract determines which source is authoritative for each required predicate.

Vendor A

AUTHORIZED · permission is valid; the outcome is not yet proved.

Vendor B

AGENT COMPLETED · a task reached its vendor-local terminal state.

Vendor C

WORKFLOW CLOSED · the workflow system reports local closure.

Vendor D

AUTHORITATIVE STATE STILL WRONG · the required real state remains false.

FINALITY

NOT FINAL · CURE REQUIRED. No local success self-promotes into whole-outcome FINAL.

Cross-vendor control path

Define. Observe. Reconcile. Certify. REOPEN.

Evidence normalization is attached after the existing Gateway and before deterministic reconciliation; production certificates remain under existing key custody.

1 · Define

Freeze whole-outcome predicates, source roles, integration bindings and authoritative sources.

2 · Observe

Normalize AuthZEN, MCP, A2A, CloudEvents and system-of-record evidence without flattening trust roles.

3 · Reconcile

Apply unchanged FRP and FSK authority, contradiction, freshness, STOP and false-FINAL rules.

4 · Certify

Issue the existing release-bound Certificate and FinalityID; write Registry and Transparency state.

5 · REOPEN

Create successor lineage when later authoritative reality contradicts a prior FINAL.

Interoperability profiles

Standards become evidence roles—not proof by association.

No endorsement, partnership or external adoption is implied.

OpenID AuthZEN: Authority / decision evidence · PERMIT ≠ FINAL
MCP: Execution evidence · TOOL_SUCCESS ≠ FINAL
A2A 1.0: Agent / task evidence · TASK_COMPLETED ≠ WHOLE_OUTCOME_FINAL
CloudEvents: Event transport evidence · EVENT_DELIVERED ≠ FINAL
Source identity: Authenticated tenant + frozen integration binding required
Production custody: Existing Finality signing, Certificate, Registry, Resolver and Transparency path