UAI-1 is the current public message standard for structured AI-to-AI communication.
UAIX shield mark Public interoperability charter UAIXUniversal Artificial Intelligence ExchangePublic standards publication
CurrentUAI-1 v1.0
  • Current versionUAI-1 v1.0
  • Plain-English definitionOpen message format for auditable AI-to-AI exchange
  • Current attributionMichael Kappel and the UAIX contributors
  • Start hereGet Started, Project Handoff, UAI-1, validator, roadmap, and changelog

Publication record

UAIX-NEWS-0006

UAIX Standards, Conformance, and Safety Update

UAIX aligned the public UAI and UAI-1 site around open standards process, validator guidance, auditable exchange, and an explicit anti-covert-channel posture.

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UAIX has updated the public UAI and UAI-1 site to present the work as an open, public-interest standards program built through versioned publication, validation evidence, and visible governance.

The site now treats specifications, schemas, examples, validator guidance, governance notes, discovery manifests, implementation tracks, and release packages as one coordinated public record. The emphasis is not only on publishing a specification, but on making declared machine communication testable, reviewable, automatable, and operationally credible.

What changed

  • About, Specification, and UAI-1 now describe UAI as a public standard family with explicit versioning, provenance, and validation expectations.
  • Schemas, Examples, and Validator now emphasize profile declarations, audit-friendly records, downloadable validation results, and checks that surface drift before deployment.
  • Governance now states the authority model more directly: public review, stable records, compatibility notes, discovery metadata, and implementation evidence are part of how UAIX earns trust.
  • The Changelog, News, and References and Contributors pages now carry the public release and citation trail more explicitly.

Safety posture

UAIX does not present hidden or covert machine communication as a feature. The public UAI record now explicitly favors declared semantics, published profiles, provenance metadata, integrity checks, reviewable logs, and machine-readable discovery over private or opaque exchange shortcuts.

How to read this update

Use this note as the public narrative around the broader standards-positioning change. Use Changelog for the public compatibility record, News for the archive of public updates, and References and Contributors when you need stable discovery and citation links.

Next publication steps

Follow-on work will keep expanding the validation track with validator checks, exportable result records, fixtures, registry handles, discovery manifests, and implementation evidence so the standard remains practical to adopt and easy to audit.

Release context

Read this update as one record inside a wider release trail

This dated post is useful on its own, but launch review depends on the build record, changed routes, validation links, and public evidence surfaces that travel with it.

Public records touched

  • About UAIX-ABOU-0043

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

  • Specification UAIX-SPEC-0047

    Normative UAI and UAI-1 records and the workflow that connects text, schemas, the field registry, operating-surface guidance, examples, validation, and release evidence.

  • UAI-1 UAIX-SPEC-0048

    Current normative release for UAI, including the shared envelope, transport/trust/error/conformance operating surfaces, the async task-status profile, validation expectations, and implementation reading order.

  • Schemas UAIX-SCHE-0053

    Published UAI-1 schemas, field-order governance, validator policy checks, and the line between machine rules and the written specification.

  • Examples UAIX-EXAM-0055

    Example UAI-1 request, response, capability, error, conformance, and task-status records that connect the specification, schemas, registry, and validator.

  • Validator UAIX-TOOL-0060

    Validate UAI-1 messages against published profiles, field-order rules, and policy checks, then export reviewable results before release.