GLOBAL-FINALITY-STANDARD · v1.0.0
Global Finality Standard
Building an implementable public contract for post-action truth, finality, and evidence-qualified economic certainty across agentic and real-world consequential actions.
Interoperability
External standards remain replaceable contracts around the constitutional truth layer.
External references were checked on 2026-08-13 and are contract references only. They do not imply certification, partnership, endorsement, or live integration.
| Standard | Version | Relation | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Model Context Protocol | 2026-07-28 | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| Agent2Agent Protocol | 1.0.0 | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| OpenID AuthZEN Authorization API | 1.0 final | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| W3C Verifiable Credentials Data Model | 2.0 Recommendation 2025-05-15 | PORTABLE_CREDENTIAL_REFERENCE | Specification |
| Securing Verifiable Credentials using JOSE and COSE | W3C Recommendation 2025-05-15 | CRYPTOGRAPHIC_ENVELOPE_REFERENCE | Specification |
| IETF SCITT Architecture | RFC 9943 (June 2026) | TRANSPARENCY_RECEIPT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| Universal Commerce Protocol | 2026-04-08 | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| Agent Payments Protocol | v0.2 | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| Visa Trusted Agent Protocol | official developer specification | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
| OpenAI Agentic Commerce | developer documentation | CONTRACT_REFERENCE | Specification |
Normative truth boundary
Cryptographic verification is not the same as truth.
The Global Finality Standard is a public-safe contract specification. Conformance to a schema or profile is an internal, self-declared statement unless independently assessed. Nothing in this standard implies certification, partnership, endorsement, live integration, buyer acceptance, regulatory approval, or production deployment by any referenced protocol, network, vendor, or standards body.
- E0
- Concept or specification
- E1
- Implemented component
- E2
- Internally verified
- E3
- Integrated internal demonstration
- E3+
- E3 plus institutional-conversion controls and reproducibility
- E4
- Buyer-controlled environment validation
- E5
- Qualified independent external assurance
- E6
- Sustained production or market evidence
- Internal ceiling
- E3+ — Verifier fixtures, schema validation, and profile conformance in this package are internal controlled evidence at E3/E3+ only.
- E4
- Buyer-controlled environment validation is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
- E5
- Qualified independent external assurance is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.
- E6
- Sustained production or market evidence is PENDING and cannot be self-declared.