UAI-1 is the current public message standard for structured AI-to-AI communication.
UAIX shield mark Public interoperability charter UAIX.org Universal Artificial Intelligence Exchange Public standards publication
Current UAI-1
  • Current version UAI-1
  • Plain-English definition Open message format for auditable AI-to-AI exchange
  • Current attribution Michael Joseph Kappel, MCP
  • Start here Get Started, Project Handoff, UAI-1, validator, roadmap, and changelog

About

About

What UAIX publishes, who it serves in practice, and how the public standard is presented and maintained.

  • Record UAIX-ABOU-0045
  • Path /en-us/about/
  • Use Canonical public record

Document status

Public standards page Published on UAIX as part of the current public standards record
Code
UAIX-ABOU-0045
Surface
About
Access
Public and linkable

How to use this page

Use this page for mission, scope, naming, and public-positioning context before you cite or extend the standard.

Orientation links

Get StartedUAI-1ImplementationsGovernance

Mission Surface

Read UAIX as the current public standards and release record

Start here when another reader needs the mission, practical reading order, and current launch posture before moving into the technical record or trust-facing pages.

What this page does

Frame the site before the deeper record

Use About to explain what UAIX publishes, how authority is earned, and why the launch surface should be read as a standards record rather than a generic product site.

Where to go next

Move into the proof surfaces quickly

After the mission and reading order are clear, continue to Get Started, UAI-1, Implementations, and Governance so evaluation does not stall in abstract description.

Launch-stage limit

Do not overclaim institutional scale

The current site is strongest when described through published records, validator-backed evidence, and release discipline instead of implied partner, repository, or governance programs that are not yet public.

Orientation links

Get StartedShortest onboarding path into the launch record.UAI-1Current normative protocol contract.ImplementationsCurrent public support boundary.GovernanceAuthority, release discipline, and trust posture.

What UAIX is

Universal Artificial Intelligence Exchange (UAIX) is the public standards and publication site for UAI. It is designed to make the written specification, machine-readable records, validator guidance, and implementation evidence easy to find, cite, validate, and deploy.

How UAIX builds authority

UAIX treats authority as more than publication. The work pairs technical rigor with due process, version discipline, implementation evidence, and a visible path toward better validation tools, test suites, and wider institutional recognition.

Practical use cases

  • Teams that need a public, reviewable message contract before shipping an AI-to-AI integration.
  • Tool builders that want stable schemas, registry handles, fixtures, and validator expectations for conformance automation.
  • Researchers and standards readers who need a citation-ready record with versioned public pages, changelog notes, and discovery files.
  • Reviewers and governance-minded teams that need compatibility notes, validator evidence, and release history attached to changes.

Authority commitments

  • Keep normative text, schemas, registry records, examples, validator behavior, and changelog notes publicly inspectable.
  • Publish stable routes, machine-readable discovery, and citation guidance so the standard can be referenced without private context.
  • Attach implementation evidence to releases instead of asking adopters to trust claims without reproducible checks.
  • Favor explicit semantics, provenance, and reviewable logs over hidden coordination shortcuts.
  • Separate publication, runtime, and governance responsibilities so no implementation track becomes the identity of the standard.

What UAI is

Universal Artificial Intelligence (UAI) is the standard family. It defines a structured, platform-agnostic model for communication between artificial intelligence systems, including identity, capability signaling, intent, context, provenance, payload transfer, outputs, and predictable error handling.

What UAI-1 is

UAI-1 is Universal Artificial Intelligence Version 1, the current normative specification published on UAIX.

How the public record is organized

Current public program model

UAIX currently behaves more like a standards publication program built from record families and implementation tracks than like a conventional events calendar, member association, or broad community portal.

  • Readers should treat the published pages, validator evidence, discovery files, and release trail as the main public operating layer.
  • Broader membership, event, or partner-program structure should not be inferred unless it is explicitly published on the site.

How to assess current maturity

  • Published now: normative pages, machine-readable schemas, registry records, examples, validator guidance, implementation tracks, discovery files, the changelog, news updates, press assets, contributor handoff guidance, the trust-policy hub on Policy and Security, and dedicated governance pages for Privacy and Data, Accessibility, and Analytics.
  • Still future work: broader public contact channels, a named multi-stakeholder governance roster, wider runtime coverage, and any certification or partner program.
  • Best reading: treat UAIX as an early but already structured standards publication surface whose legitimacy comes from visible records, validation evidence, release discipline, and a reviewable trust posture rather than implied institutional scale.

Current published maintainer context

Current named public attribution on the site: Michael Joseph Kappel, MCP.

  • Use References and Contributors as the current public attribution, discovery, and handoff record.
  • Use Governance and the Changelog when you need the published decision trail around what is current, what changed, and what remains future work.
  • Until broader roles are formally published, treat the visible operating layer as the named attribution plus aligned canonical pages, machine-readable records, validator behavior, implementation evidence, and release notes.

How to start technical evaluation

Teams that want the shortest path from mission to implementation should start with Get Started, then continue to UAI-1, Schemas, and the Validator.

Institutional posture at the current stage

Readers should treat UAIX as a standards publication surface with an emerging public operating layer. Authority is meant to come from the published record, validator-backed evidence, stable routes, and visible release discipline, not from implied private scale or unpublished institutional structure.

Safety posture

UAI is intended to favor declared, reviewable machine communication over opaque or covert agent dialects. Interpretability, auditability, provenance, and logging are part of the public standard record rather than optional extras.

What UAIX is not

UAIX is not a closed platform, a private vendor protocol, a member portal, or a managed application runtime. It is a public interoperability program that keeps rules, records, examples, and implementation expectations inspectable.

How UAI-1 fits with adjacent systems

  • UAI-1 is the published envelope, trust, and release-record layer for interoperable AI exchanges on UAIX.
  • MCP, A2A, orchestration frameworks, and host-specific agent SDKs can handle local runtime behavior, tool use, discovery, or delegation beside that layer without being treated as the same thing.
  • Credential, signing, and transport-trust systems can complement UAI-1 without being silently promoted to already-normative UAI-1 requirements.
  • Current public support claims should stay scoped to the published record and named implementation tracks rather than to the whole surrounding agent stack.

Reference and contributor record

See References and Contributors for important links, public discovery files, contributor attribution, and the growing public contributor record for UAIX.