ARCHITECTURE

Authority, semantics and physical boundaries.

OpenRGD separates canonical source, derived artifacts, cognitive intent and physical execution so that each layer has explicit ownership.

CITATION RECORDCanonical source ↗

MATURITYARCHITECTURE REFERENCE · MIXED MATURITY

LAST VERIFIED22 Sep 2026

SOURCE VERSIONSTRUCTURE.md + standard bundle 0.2.0 + Agent Contracts 0.1.0 candidate

EVIDENCE BOUNDARYArchitecture hub distinguishes adopted repository boundaries from candidate contracts and research work; the website is not normative.

ARCHITECTURE MAP

Adopted boundaries and candidate contracts.

ARCHITECTUREADOPTED

Runtime Boundary

The canonical repository stops before physical embodied execution.

Open →

ARCHITECTURECANDIDATE

Agent Contracts

Versioned interfaces between cognition, somatic translation, Chronons, memory and DecisionTrace.

Open →

ARCHITECTURECANDIDATE

Somatic Translation

Hardware-agnostic translation from approved intent to typed capability plans.

Open →

ARCHITECTUREIMPLEMENTED

Synapses

Deterministic static interoperability exports; ROS 2 is the active reference target.

Open →

ARCHITECTURECANDIDATE

Time & Memory

Chronograf time, Chronon history and memory-as-projection ownership boundaries.

Open →

AUTHORITY MODEL

One source of truth. Derived artifacts stay derived.

01spec/manifest.jsonc

Standard version, integrity profile and domain maturity.

02spec/

Human-readable normative modular source.

03contracts/

Cross-component interfaces within declared maturity.

04standard/

Tracked strict-JSON leaf mirror — never independent authority.

05seeds/default/spec/

Derived default profile.

06generated outputs

Bundles, exports and robot workspaces remain derived products.

SEVEN DOMAINS

One robot, decomposed into explicit semantic responsibility.

Core

Coordination, manifests and kernel metadata.

Foundation

Physical body, hardware reality and structural evidence.

Operation

Operational envelopes, runtime constraints and safety.

Agency

Capabilities, world model and action semantics.

Volition

Values, alignment and decision governance.

Evolution

Lifecycle, wear, adaptation and continuity.

Ether

Collective, social and inter-agent protocols.

COGNITIVE → PHYSICAL

Meaning can flow downstream without silently granting authority.

01CognitionProposal

02ActionIntent

03Somatic Translator

04CapabilityPlan

05Operation Safety Gate

06DecisionTrace

07Body Adapter

08Hardware

ActionIntent is model-agnostic. CapabilityPlan remains hardware-agnostic. The Body Adapter owns device-level execution. DecisionTrace stores structured evidence, not private reasoning.

SOURCE

The architecture is defined by the repository, not by this website.

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