Specification
Protocol scope, lifecycle, events, and conformance expectations.
Read the specification
The documentation set tracks the protocol draft and its design principles.
Documentation
Read the working draft like infrastructure, not marketing.
Documentation is organized around universal execution concepts, lifecycle semantics, and long-lived compatibility rules.
What this page covers
Read the introduction and scope first.
Trace the mission lifecycle end to end.
Understand verification before thinking about implementations.
Use extensions for industry-specific concepts.
Highlights
Protocol-native entry points for this surface.
Getting started
A quick path through the concepts, docs, and implementation surfaces.
Start hereProtocol overview
The public-facing overview of why Poiva exists and what it standardizes.
See the overview
Read the draft in order
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docs/manifesto.md
docs/vision.md
docs/protocol/01-introduction.md
docs/protocol/02-design-principles.md
docs/protocol/03-domain-model.md
Working principles
Keep the protocol stable while implementations evolve.
Read the introduction and scope first.
Trace the mission lifecycle end to end.
Understand verification before thinking about implementations.
Use extensions for industry-specific concepts.
Related pages
Continue through the public protocol surface.
Open governance
Future changes are expected to move through public discussion and Poiva Enhancement Proposals.
Join the communityPublic roadmap
Track how the protocol, SDKs, CLI, and cloud references evolve.
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Next step
Need the fastest path through the draft?
Start with the introduction, then design principles, then the domain model. The pages under Docs preserve that progression.