The open standard for outcome governance

Five specifications. One open standard.

A coherent set of specifications that define how to govern outcomes in agentic systems. Open. Free to implement. Free to extend.

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

What it is

A complete outcome governance system for AI agents.

OSR is the architecture. OGS-1 is the conformance standard. CPP is the sequencing protocol. DCP is the runtime enforcement. Decision Schema is the wire format. Together they define a complete outcome governance system for AI agents operating in environments where outcomes compound over time. Every specification is published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Anyone may implement. Anyone may extend.

The five specifications

Each specification, in detail.

Five publications that compose the open standard. Read the live specification today. The remaining four publish on a rolling schedule through May 2026.

Livev2.0

Outcome System Result (OSR) Specification

The five-tier causal architecture for governing outcomes that accumulate over time.

PRIMARY OUTCOME (PO)
  [Essential Target] + [Action Verb]
  + [Target Level] + [Timeframe]

PERFORMANCE LEVERS (PL)
  Stock-target sets that gate progress
  toward the Primary Outcome.

SUPPORT OUTCOMES (SO)
  Gate and guardrail conditions.
  GREEN | AMBER | RED.
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Coming May 30v1.0

OGS-1 Outcome Governance Standard

Defines what conformance with OSR looks like. The basis for assessment and certification.

G-2.1 The Primary Outcome MUST be expressed
      using the Spec Card formal grammar.

G-2.2 An OSR Spec MUST declare exactly one
      Primary Outcome per system instance.

G-2.3 Performance Levers SHOULD be expressed
      as stock-target sets with explicit
      thresholds.

G-2.4 Implementations MAY extend the schema
      with vendor-specific fields.
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CPP Causal Phase Protocol

The sequencing intelligence that determines which Performance Lever dominates at each phase of the system.

PHASE 1 — STABILIZATION
  Active when: cohort_intake < threshold
  OR defect_rate > 5%

PHASE 2 — CAPACITY BUILD
  Active when: stabilization holds 6 weeks

PHASE 3 — GROWTH
  Active when: capacity_buffer > 20%

PHASE 4 — MATURITY
  Active when: PO target sustained 12 weeks
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DCP Decision Compliance Protocol

The runtime handshake that validates agent decisions against the OSR state before execution.

{
  "status": "NACK",
  "rule_id": "R-01",
  "rule_name": "MASKING_VIOLATION",
  "decision_id": "dec_2026_04_28_a8f2",
  "corrective_command": {
    "action": "BLOCK_DECISION",
    "remediation": "surface_underlying_state",
    "required_field": "support_outcome"
  }
}
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Coming May 30v1.0

Decision Schema

The JSON wire format for agent decisions in DCP. Typed fields, validation constraints, and rationale capture.

{
  "decision_id": "dec_2026_04_28_a8f2",
  "agent_id": "growth_agent_v3",
  "phase": "growth",
  "acquisition_target": 250,
  "features_started": [
    "feature_a",
    "feature_c"
  ],
  "rationale": "PT-2 buffer 23%",
  "po_state": "green"
}
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License and attribution

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.

Outcome Governance Open Standard specification is published under CC BY 4.0. In plain language, this means:

Required attribution string
Open Standard — OSR, OGS-1, CPP, DCP, Decision Schema.
Copyright (c) 2026 PathFwd, LLC.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

GitHub

Reference implementations and discussion.

The reference repository launches alongside DCP v1.0 in May 2026. It will host conformance test vectors, sample implementations, and the public discussion forum for proposed extensions.

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