> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://gpars.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Compliance levels

> What it means for agents and infrastructure to be GPARS-compliant.

## Cognitive Plane (Agent) compliance

| Level             | Criteria                                                                             |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Compliant**     | Agent fully externalizes all EMOs via MCP and publishes a valid capability manifest. |
| **Non-Compliant** | Agent performs EMOs internally or does not publish a valid capability manifest.      |

## Action Plane (Infrastructure) compliance

| Level             | Criteria                                                                                                                                                                             |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| **Compliant**     | A user-controlled enforcement point is present, verifies agent identity, enforces security policy, and returns GPARS standard errors (`AUTHORIZATION_DENIED`, `SERVER_UNAVAILABLE`). |
| **Non-Compliant** | MCP servers accept requests directly from agents without an enforcement point, or the enforcement point does not return GPARS standard errors.                                       |

Partial or transitional compliance levels are not defined in v0.1 and are reserved for future revision.