MAP/Architecture

The shape of the institution.

MAP is a router with a backbone. Eight stages on the way in, seven planes inside, a single audited record on the way out. Every request — small or sovereign — passes through the same shape.

Pipeline stages

Planes

VII

Services

Adjacent powers

01 · Dispatch Pipeline

Eight stages, one record.

Every request
is policy made physical.

The single shape every call wears.

From envelope to audit, every request crosses the same backbone. Identity is presented and verified; capability and policy decide reach; protocol modules execute; metering, attestation, and recording close the loop. Refusal carries reasons. Success carries receipts.

Hop costs shown are p50 on a warm cluster. The substrate is the audit chain — every hop adds an entry to MAX, every observable to MOMENT, every measurement to MOTET.

01⟶Ingress · receive request, parse envelope, check protocol shape~0.4ms

02⟶Identify · MACS verifies signature, derives capability set~1.1ms

03⟶Authorize · MAXIM evaluates policy; MOAT consulted if cross-org~0.6ms

04⟶Route · dispatch to protocol module under capability scope~0.2ms

05⟶Meter · MEAL accounts tokens, time, watts; MANA checks runway~0.3ms

06⟶Execute · protocol acts; agents reason; tools fire under sandboxvariable

07⟶Attest · response signed, decision recorded, dissent preserved~0.5ms

08⟶Record · MAX appends to audit chain; MOMENT timestamps; MOTET indexes~0.4ms

02 · The Seven Planes

What lies inside.

Functional domains —
thirty-five primitives.

Identity

Who you are. What you may do. The first question MAP asks of every caller.

MACS OAS Arsenal Aegis

Cognition

What you know. What you may reason about. Substrate and faculty for thought.

MIND MARC MANTLE MAME

III

Truth

What is verified. What is trusted. The institution's ledger of confidence.

MAVEN MATA MARE MERIT MANTIC MAGI

Governance

How decisions are made. How they bind. How they may be unmade or appealed.

MOAT MAXIM MACE MOOT MIMESIS MAUSOLEUM

Execution

How work gets done. How it stays done. The institution's hands.

MOON MAESTRO MAT MAKER MOTE MAGE

Economic

How value flows. How it settles. The civic mint of the autonomous.

MADE MARKET MANA MEAL

VII

Awareness

How the institution sees itself. The library of its own decisions.

MAX MOTIF MOMENT MOTET MARS MAZE MARI MIM

03 · Adjacent Powers

Forced agnosticism.

MAP is a citizen
among standards.

The Substrate

MAP

Institutional OS

Routes every request through identity, policy, accounting, and audit. Provides governance, economic, and observability primitives. Does not author agents; does not orchestrate execution; does not own identity.

Agent Builder

Forge

Anvil reference

Creates agents with OAS identity. Six-language SDK; eight Anvil contracts (identity, capability, tool, health, communication, collaboration, telemetry, generation).

Org Runtime

Aut0

Durable orchestration

Runs autonomous organizations on Flowers durable workflows: journaling, compensation, replay, checkpointing. Talks to MAP via MOON for orchestration and MAX for audit.

Identity Standard

OAS

W3C DID

Vendor-neutral DIDs for autonomous entities. Lineage to a human root, eleven entity kinds, offline-verifiable. SDKs in seven languages; published spec at openagent.id.

04 · Interop

Open standards, fluent.

Superset, never capture.

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MCP

Tool tongue.

MAP exposes every protocol as a Model Context Protocol tool — callable from any compliant agent. It also consumes external MCP servers as adapters, treating them as registry extensions under capability scope.

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A2A

Diplomatic register.

MAP publishes Agent Cards for cross-organization discovery; accepts A2A tasks as mesh entry points. Treaties (via MOAT) translate cards into binding accords.

x402

Civic mint.

MADE integrates x402 as the settlement layer for agent-to-agent payments. Every micropayment policy-checked, metered by MEAL, recorded to the audit chain.