[codex] docs: add OpenCoven IP protection records#1
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Pull request overview
Adds a set of root-level IP/provenance and security/contribution policy documents intended to formalize OpenCoven’s disclosure, patent, and reporting practices within this repository.
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- Add
PATENTSwith a patent non-assertion pledge and prior-art notice language. - Add
PROVENANCE.mddescribing origin/publication records and concept lineage. - Add
CONTRIBUTING.mdandSECURITY.mddefining contribution terms (DCO + patent terms) and a vulnerability reporting policy.
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SECURITY.md |
Introduces a security policy and vulnerability reporting/scope guidance. |
PROVENANCE.md |
Adds an origin record and architectural concept provenance narrative. |
PATENTS |
Adds a patent non-assertion pledge plus publication date table and notices. |
CONTRIBUTING.md |
Adds contribution rules including DCO sign-off and patent non-assertion terms. |
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| ### 1. The Familiar Identity Model | ||
| **First appeared:** `coven-cli/src/familiar_identity.rs`, commit history from 2026-04-27 | ||
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| A named, role-scoped agent persona — a "familiar" — resolved from a configuration manifest (`familiars.toml`) and attached to a session via a CLI flag or runtime config. Each familiar has an `id`, `display_name`, and `role`. The familiar model is the foundational identity primitive for multi-agent systems in OpenCoven. | ||
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| This concept was original to this repository. It has been independently acknowledged as prior art by third parties in their own published documentation. |
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| ### 2. The Agent Spawn Harness | ||
| **First appeared:** `pty_runner.rs:307` (`spawn_piped_with_observer`), commit history from 2026-04-27 | ||
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| A structured dispatch pattern for launching configured agent/harness processes. The pattern validates a harness allowlist, canonicalizes working directory, checks session state, then dispatches to one of a defined set of low-level spawn primitives. This is the root pattern from which single-chokepoint process execution architectures in agent systems derive. |
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| OpenCoven is MIT licensed. The maintainers of this project have not filed and do not intend to file patents on the architectural patterns, protocols, or mechanisms described in this repository. | ||
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| **Architectural concepts originating in this repository include, but are not limited to:** | ||
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| Security reports are welcome for: | ||
| - OpenCoven core harness and routing logic | ||
| - OpenTrust memory and session substrate | ||
| - Authentication and identity handling | ||
| - Agent sandbox and execution boundaries | ||
| - Any mechanism that could allow one agent or user to access another's context | ||
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| # Contributing to OpenCoven | ||
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| Thank you for your interest in contributing. OpenCoven is MIT licensed and community-driven. We want contributing to be easy, open, and safe for everyone. | ||
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| ## Developer Certificate of Origin (DCO) | ||
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Summary
Adds the OpenCoven root IP protection and disclosure documents:
PATENTS: patent non-assertion pledge and prior-art noticePROVENANCE.md: origin and publication recordCONTRIBUTING.md: DCO and patent contribution terms, merged with any existing repo guidanceSECURITY.md: responsible disclosure policy, merged with any existing repo guidanceValidation
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