CCS Standard v1.0 — Correctover Conformance Standard

🏛️ Correctover CCS Standard v1.0 — The Foundation for Agentic Reliability

Authority: This release establishes the first formal conformance metric for agentic runtimes, anchored to DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21234580.

Core Pillars:

• Conformance: Unified predicate support across agentic runtimes. Every transition τ must satisfy Required(τ) ⊆ Supported(τ).
• Reproducibility: Standardized receipt verification via CCS Symbol Standard. Context-equivalent transitions yield identical outcomes.
• Compliance: Architecture mapped to EU AI Act (Art. 9–15) & NIST AI RMF frameworks (GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, MANAGE).

Policy: The standard does not adapt to implementations. Implementations adapt to the standard.

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Correctover CCS Standard v1.0 — Release Notes

Release Date: July 7, 2026
Version: 1.0
Repository: Correctover/standards
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21234580

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What is CCS?

The Correctover Conformance Standard (CCS) is the first formal protocol specification for agent runtime integrity. It defines the governance surface against which all agent framework implementations MUST be measured — not an implementation, but the standard that implementations must satisfy.

Full technical specification: Correctover CCS Standard Paper (Zenodo)

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Three Pillars

1. Conformance

Defines the Required Set (R) and Supported Set (S) of behavioral properties. An agent runtime is CCS-conformant if and only if every runtime transition satisfies the Correctover governance criterion. This is a structural property, not an empirical observation.

2. Reproducibility

Every conformant runtime MUST produce deterministically replayable execution traces. Context-equivalent transitions MUST yield identical outcomes. This property is REQUIRED for regulatory audit compliance under the EU AI Act (Art. 10, 15).

3. Compliance

Direct mapping to EU AI Act Articles 9–15 and NIST AI RMF functions (GOVERN, MAP, MEASURE, MANAGE). CCS conformance provides the formal basis for regulatory documentation, risk assessment, and human oversight enforcement.

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What's Included

Asset	Description
CCS Standard Paper	Complete formal specification (LaTeX + PDF)
RFC 001	Protocol specification document
RFC 002	Symbol Standard — canonical notation systems (Required⊆Supported + Receipt Schema)
20K Verification Subset	Public validation dataset (20,000 traces)
Conformance Test Suite	Machine-verifiable test cases
Compliance Mapping	EU AI Act + NIST AI RMF alignment tables

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Conformance Levels

• CCS-Base: Satisfies Required Set R
• CCS-Extended: Satisfies R + additional Supported properties
• CCS-Certified: Passes full audit + reproducibility verification

Certification authority: Correctover Research Group.

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For Framework Maintainers

If you maintain an agent framework (AutoGen, CrewAI, LangGraph, Semantic Kernel, or any other), CCS defines what your runtime must satisfy to be considered conformant. Review RFC 001 Section 6 for the mandatory interface specification.

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License

The CCS Standard specification is © 2026 Correctover Research Group. The 20K verification subset is released under the Correctover Public Verification License. Full dataset (80K traces) is proprietary intellectual property, available under the Correctover Data Access Agreement.

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The standard does not adapt to implementations. Implementations adapt to the standard.