Agentic Audit & Reliability Contract (AARC) v1.0.5

Former internal name: "ARF v1.0.5" (renamed to avoid naming collision).

The Agentic Audit & Reliability Contract (AARC) defines a lightweight, auditable contract for agentic systems that need consistent runtime telemetry, repair tracking, and verifiable change logs. This repository contains the normative specifications, reference monitor implementations, and a companion paper for the v1.0.5 specification series.

What is included

• Specs: Normative requirements, runtime contract, patch ledger, and ACJ protocol definitions. See the spec/ directory.
• Reference implementations: Minimal monitors in Python and TypeScript under reference/.
• Paper: A short overview of the framework with citations in paper/.

Versioning

All documents in this repository are aligned to v1.0.5. Backwards-incompatible changes must increment the major or minor spec version. Changes to spec/*v1_0_5* require bumping the version and adding a changelog entry.

Repository layout

./spec/                      Normative specifications
./reference/                 Reference monitor implementations
./paper/                     Companion paper

Contributing

When updating the specification, ensure the normative requirements index is updated and any reference implementation changes are reflected in the paper.