Open Worker Protocol

Open Standard · Working Draft 0.4

The open standard for 
AI-native organisations.

OWP-2 defines the protocol-level primitives, runtime behaviour, audit envelope, and conformance levels that make an AI Workforce governable as a regulated commercial actor: signed actions, hash-chained envelopes, Charter-bound authority, and verifiable Outcomes.

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The full normative text of OWP-2 Working Draft 0.4, by section.

§3

Primitives

Worker Definition, Worker Instance, Signal, Intent, Capability, Memory, Audit Envelope — realised through Function & Workforce.

§9

The Audit Envelope

Signed events, hash chains, Merkle roots, sealing semantics, regulator export.

§13

Conformance

What it means to implement OWP-2 — Core, Federated, and Regulator classes.