Welcoming Carlos Hernandez as a maintainer

[imran-siddique]

Carlos Hernandez (@carloshvp) is now a maintainer on examples, cmcp, agent-manifest, ca2a, and integrations.

He has been one of the most consistent contributors across these repos since June: 24 pull requests, and not small ones.

Some of what he has built:

• integrations: the AgenTrust agent integrity plugin for Codex (#45)
• examples: the industrial embodied-AI governance example (#16) and the embodied action receipt fixtures (#36)
• cmcp: embodied action evidence fixtures (#392)
• ca2a: delegation action evidence conformance (#37), and he is currently wiring Cedar into the cross-operator delegation example so the demo evaluates a real policy instead of mirroring one
• agent-manifest: a genuine security fix binding trusted keys to manifest issuers (#220)

What decided this was not the volume. It was the reviewing.

Carlos sets a clear acceptance bar, holds contributions to it, and does it without discouraging anyone. His review on trace-spec#98 is the example I keep coming back to: he supported the direction of an external interoperability crosswalk, then asked precisely for the governance framing and mapping accuracy the document was missing, including that the contribution disclose its own author's relationship to the draft it referenced. That is careful, generous maintainer work, and he was already doing it before anyone handed him the permissions.

Congratulations Carlos, and thank you. The bar you hold others to is the reason the bar means anything.