COLLABORATIONOS / OPEN GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORK

CollaborationOS

Inspectable governance for consequential human-AI collaboration.

CollaborationOS gives teams a disciplined, human-owned way to recover context, admit evidence, bind authority, govern execution, review outcomes independently, and preserve failure truth.

GITHUB REPOSITORYnickzhuchen66/collaborationos

v0.1.0PUBLIC BASELINE

7GOVERNANCE PROTOCOLS

9STRICT SCHEMAS

126CONFORMANCE FIXTURES

APACHE-2.0OPEN LICENSE

01 / SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE

Governance outside the host business system.

COS is adopted by reference. The public core supplies governance semantics, protocols, artifact contracts, conformance examples, and adoption guidance. The host retains its business source of truth, domain data, permissions, execution systems, and final decisions.

CollaborationOS system architecture separating the public governance core from the host-owned business system and final human decisions. — The reference boundary prevents COS from silently absorbing host payloads or manufacturing authority. Business truth and consequential decisions remain host-owned.

02 / SEVEN-PROTOCOL GOVERNANCE LOOP

Seven protocols. One inspectable authority chain.

P01-P07 connect context recovery, evidence admission, authority binding, human decision, execution handoff, independent acceptance, and learning candidates. A01-A09 keep each transition machine-readable and reviewable without allowing later success to create authority retroactively.

CollaborationOS seven-protocol governance loop showing P01 through P07, artifacts A01 through A09, legal-stop and failure branches, and final human authority. — Execution is not acceptance. Failure is evidence. Learning is not promotion. Every consequential fork remains visible to a named human authority.

03 / HOST ADOPTION PATH

Reference first. Decide separately. Expand only after evidence.

A host pins the public baseline, imports it read-only, creates host-owned governance records, maps truth and authority, rehearses one historical decision, and routes adoption to an independent human owner. The 10-minute path prepares an L1 draft; it does not grant access or execution.

CollaborationOS host adoption path showing version pinning, read-only import, host record creation, role and authority mapping, historical rehearsal, and a human adoption gate. — The accurate L1 outcome is manual and static decision governance at a pinned version. L2 governed change requires a separate later decision.

01Read the 10-minute quickstart10_MINUTE_QUICKSTART.md ↗02Browse Getting Starteddocs/getting-started/ ↗

PUBLIC CAPABILITY BOUNDARY

A governance baseline, not an authority engine.

Public v0.1.0 is manual/static, Apache-2.0 licensed, and designed around human-owned consequential authority.

WHAT IT DOES

Makes context, evidence, authority, decisions, and acceptance inspectable
Provides 7 protocols, 9 strict schemas, templates, and synthetic conformance evidence
Preserves legal stops, failure truth, manual takeover, and bounded learning candidates
Supports reference-based host adoption while keeping business truth local

WHAT IT DOES NOT DO

No agent runtime, automated policy engine, CLI, SDK, or SaaS authority
No host access, production execution authority, or automatic approval
No implicit retry, acceptance, promotion, or canonical write
No completed cross-host validation, M6 claim, or production-readiness claim

FROM UNDERSTANDING TO ADOPTION

Read the framework. Pin the baseline. Start with one decision.

The README explains the public invariants and repository map. Getting Started provides the shortest bounded path to a host-local L1 adoption draft.

Open GitHub repository ↗Browse Getting Started ↗

DISCUSSION OPEN

Start with the boundary that is hardest to define.

Designing a consequential workflow shared by people, AI, and domain experts? I am open to discussing its real constraints and accountability boundaries.