# GPARS

## Docs

- [Example manifests](https://gpars.io/examples/manifests.md): Sample agent capability manifests for common agent types.
- [Worked example](https://gpars.io/examples/worked-example.md): A complete end-to-end walkthrough of a GPARS-compliant coding agent interacting with the Action Plane.
- [Introduction](https://gpars.io/index.md): General-Purpose Agent Reference Standard (GPARS) v0.1.0
- [Architecture](https://gpars.io/spec/architecture.md): The two-plane model: Cognitive Plane, Action Plane, and the boundary between them.
- [Compliance levels](https://gpars.io/spec/compliance.md): What it means for agents and infrastructure to be GPARS-compliant.
- [Conformance language](https://gpars.io/spec/conformance.md): How to interpret requirement levels in this specification.
- [Environment-Modifying Operations](https://gpars.io/spec/emo.md): What counts as an EMO and the rules governing them.
- [Enforcement model](https://gpars.io/spec/enforcement.md): How the manifest and security policy work together to control agent behavior.
- [Extension model](https://gpars.io/spec/extension-model.md): How to extend GPARS manifests and MCP server metadata.
- [Agent manifest](https://gpars.io/spec/manifest.md): Declaring agent capabilities via a machine-readable manifest.
- [Non-goals (v0.1)](https://gpars.io/spec/non-goals.md): What GPARS v0.1 intentionally leaves out of scope.
- [Processing model](https://gpars.io/spec/processing-model.md): How agents activate and interact with the Action Plane at runtime.
- [Rationale](https://gpars.io/spec/rationale.md): Why GPARS makes the design choices it does.
- [References](https://gpars.io/spec/references.md): Normative and informative references for the GPARS specification.
- [Scope](https://gpars.io/spec/scope.md): What GPARS v0.1 standardizes and what it does not.
- [Security considerations](https://gpars.io/spec/security-considerations.md): Security properties and implementation guidance for GPARS deployments.
- [Security policy](https://gpars.io/spec/security-policy.md): The user-owned authorization model for controlling agent behavior.
- [Terminology](https://gpars.io/spec/terminology.md): Definitions of key terms used in the GPARS specification.
- [Why general-purpose?](https://gpars.io/spec/why-general-purpose.md): What makes an agent general-purpose, and why GPARS is designed around that principle.

## OpenAPI Specs

- [openapi](https://gpars.io/api-reference/openapi.json)

## Optional

- [Github](https://github.com/GPARS-org/GPARS)