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Pull request overview
Adds root-level IP/provenance/security/contribution policy documents intended to record project provenance and define reporting + contribution terms. In the current repo (PsiClaw), these documents repeatedly refer to OpenCoven (including repo/org URLs and source-file paths), which risks materially confusing contributors and security reporters about which project/repository these policies apply to.
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SECURITY.mdresponsible disclosure policy and security-properties list. - Added
PATENTSpatent non-assertion pledge + prior-art notice. - Added
PROVENANCE.mdorigin/provenance record and third-party acknowledgments. - Added
CONTRIBUTING.mdDCO sign-off guidance and patent contribution terms.
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| SECURITY.md | Adds a security reporting policy and architectural security properties (currently branded as OpenCoven). |
| PROVENANCE.md | Adds an origin/provenance record (currently OpenCoven-specific, including references to files not present in this repo). |
| PATENTS | Adds a patent non-assertion pledge and prior-art notice (currently references OpenCoven repo/maintainers). |
| CONTRIBUTING.md | Adds contribution terms and DCO guidance (currently branded as OpenCoven). |
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| ### Reporting a Vulnerability | ||
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| If you discover a security vulnerability in OpenCoven, please report it responsibly. |
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| Security reports are welcome for: | ||
| - OpenCoven core harness and routing logic |
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| ### Our Commitment | ||
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| We take security seriously because OpenCoven handles personal context and agent execution on behalf of users. We will credit researchers who responsibly disclose vulnerabilities (with their permission). |
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| ## Architectural Security Properties | ||
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| The following properties are design goals of OpenCoven. If you find a way to violate them, that's a security report: |
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| # Contributing to OpenCoven | |||
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| ## Patent Non-Assertion | ||
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| OpenCoven is MIT licensed. The maintainers of this project have not filed and do not intend to file patents on the architectural patterns, protocols, or mechanisms described in this repository. |
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| | Familiar identity model | 2026-04-27 | github.com/OpenCoven/coven | | ||
| | Agent spawn harness | 2026-04-27 | github.com/OpenCoven/coven | | ||
| | Multi-agent familiar substrate | 2026-04-27 | github.com/OpenCoven/coven | |
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| ## Non-Assertion Pledge | ||
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| The OpenCoven maintainers pledge not to assert any patent claims — now held or later acquired — against any person or organization that uses, implements, or builds upon the architectural patterns, protocols, or mechanisms described in this repository or its documentation, provided that use is consistent with the MIT License terms. |
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| # PROVENANCE.md — OpenCoven Origin Record | ||
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| > This document exists to establish the clear, timestamped origin of the architectural ideas that define OpenCoven. It is a public record, not a legal claim. It is maintained so that future readers — contributors, users, researchers, patent examiners — can verify where these ideas came from and when. |
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| ### 1. The Familiar Identity Model | ||
| **First appeared:** `coven-cli/src/familiar_identity.rs`, commit history from 2026-04-27 | ||
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| A named, role-scoped agent persona — a "familiar" — resolved from a configuration manifest (`familiars.toml`) and attached to a session via a CLI flag or runtime config. Each familiar has an `id`, `display_name`, and `role`. The familiar model is the foundational identity primitive for multi-agent systems in OpenCoven. | ||
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| This concept was original to this repository. It has been independently acknowledged as prior art by third parties in their own published documentation. | ||
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| ### 2. The Agent Spawn Harness | ||
| **First appeared:** `pty_runner.rs:307` (`spawn_piped_with_observer`), commit history from 2026-04-27 |
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Summary
Adds the OpenCoven root IP protection and disclosure documents:
PATENTS: patent non-assertion pledge and prior-art noticePROVENANCE.md: origin and publication recordCONTRIBUTING.md: DCO and patent contribution terms, merged with any existing repo guidanceSECURITY.md: responsible disclosure policy, merged with any existing repo guidanceValidation
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