A capability-based operating layer for long-running autonomous software engineering agents. Rust daemon, signed capabilities, append-only audit, drift-aware memory, fail-closed sandbox dispatch, commit-scoped provenance.
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Covenant
Open infrastructure for agent-native computing.
Covenant sits below agent applications and above the host operating system. It owns the state, authority, and accountability concerns that recur across agent frameworks β scoped capabilities, durable memory, runtime isolation, append-only audit, and commit-scoped provenance β so individual frameworks can stop reinventing them.
Status. Local control plane is real and live-tested (50 Rust crates, ~284k lines, 3870 source-discovered Rust tests including 486 live boundary tests). Production-grade sandboxing for hostile agent code and networked multi-peer operation are roadmap; the Solana settlement program is deployed on mainnet (credits, staking, slashing, on-chain receipt anchoring), but its daemon-driven economic lifecycle is not yet production. See BUILT.md for the explicit honesty boundary.
Multi-chain reach. The trust layer also projects onto Base mainnet as signed statements any EVM contract verifies with one ecrecover β ERC-8004 agent registration, a deployed bond-receipt verifier, a registered EAS reputation schema, and an ENS CCIP-Readβ¦