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Covenant: open agent-native operating layer

Covenant is the open, local-first operating layer for agentic software. It gives humans and agents eight host-level primitives (intent, runtime, memory, identity, permissions, communication, a compositor, and on-chain settlement) so they can safely share one computer. Try the interactive sandbox, read the documentation on the eight primitives, review the development roadmap, or read the technical whitepaper.

Covenant

An operating system that builds itself

Covenant · open agent-native operating layer

Open source · Apache-2.0

Solana · x402 · MCP · A2A

ALPHA LIVE

Not a chatbot. Not an agent framework. An open operating layer where every agent runs under a signed grant, every action leaves a receipt, and the system itself is built in the open by the autonomous infrastructure it provides.

Try the sandbox Watch it build itself

Eight host-level primitives

One computer, safely shared by humans and agents

Covenant gives humans and agents eight host-level primitives: intent, runtime, memory, identity, permissions, communication, a compositor, and on-chain settlement, so they can safely share one computer.

  1. 01IntentA natural-language request addressed to the daemon and routed to an agent that can fulfil it.
  2. 02RuntimeThe mechanism that executes an agent under a resource budget.
  3. 03MemoryA three-tier semantic store with cosine-similarity search over embedded vectors.
  4. 04IdentityA single ed25519 keypair per install that signs grants, settlement, and audit issuance.
  5. 05Permissionsed25519-signed capability tokens naming a dotted action and optional JSON scope.
  6. 06CommsHow agents and clients talk to the daemon, to each other, and to external tools.
  7. 07CompositorHow agent state, decisions, and results are surfaced back to a human operator.
  8. 08SettlementHow resource consumption is accounted for, with an on-chain settlement program on mainnet.

What you plug in

Two ways agents meet the real world safely

Guard

trust layer

Before your agent pays or trusts another agent, it checks an on-chain track record, confirms a real identity, and verifies a signed claim. A zero-install MCP for Claude and Codex.

Explore Guard

Trading

governed execution

Brokerages are opening to agents with no real limits. Covenant is the policy gate in front of the order: caps enforced before it's placed, and every decision anchored onchain where anyone can check it.

See governed trading

Built in the open

The infrastructure builds itself

Covenant's own code is written in the open by agents running on it. Every commit is made under a signed grant, checked before it goes through, and leaves a receipt in a hash-chained audit log. Covenant runs under the same rules it gives your agents.

Watch the live build log

Ecosystem

Speaks the protocols agents already use

Settlement on Solana, pay-per-call over x402, tools and agent-to-agent traffic over MCP and A2A, and a growing set of partner products that reach agents as capability-scoped, attested tools.

  • Solana
  • x402
  • MCP
  • A2A
See the partners

Try the sandbox

Try the sandbox Read the docs