An honest account of where this is, in three horizons. Nothing below is a commitment to a date.
Working and tested:
- Offline verification of
wvp-0.1andwvp-0.2packages through the shared Rust verifier, with structured results that keep refusal, incompleteness and the reproduced decision apart. - Typed models: trust registries, contracts, evidence, claims, packages, work records, verification results.
- Evidence production with explicit, scoped signing authority and a pluggable signer.
- A work lifecycle (
OPEN,CLAIMED,ISSUED) that issueswvp-0.2packages, each checked by the shared verifier before it is returned. - Work-unit identity and nullifiers.
- Generic agent instrumentation: sessions, turns, tools, traces; sync and async.
- Two framework adapters: OpenAI Agents SDK and LangGraph.
- Conformance: the published corpus for canonical encoding, both package versions, the contract language, work-unit identity and evidence statements.
- Packaging foundations: maturin, one
abi3wheel per platform, CI for lint, types, tests, conformance and wheels.
Known gaps at this horizon: no security review; claim registration not bound; no platform client; source builds need Rust and network access.
In rough order of leverage:
- Settle the bare name. Wheels are published as
verified-python. An unrelated placeholder ownsverifiedon PyPI; a PEP 541 request asks for it, so thatpip install verifiedcannot install something else. - More framework adapters: Google ADK next, with integration tests against the real framework before the extra is listed. For LangGraph: streaming, subgraphs and resumed runs. An MCP server-side helper for tools that open work.
- Richer evidence producers: statement chains with a pluggable state store; a KMS signer example; batch signing.
- Claim registration v1: bind the existing Rust library; run its 123 vectors.
- Platform service integration, once the platform has a versioned API and service credentials: submit packages, fetch records. Optional module.
- A session's packages as one group. The protocol's multi-claim
object is the
groupsrelation of work relation v1 (draft). This SDK reads relations (verified.read_history) and issues that one (EvidenceSource.group). Next:WorkSessiongrouping the packages it issued without the caller listing them. Detached application signatures under caller-owned domains remain open. - Release the GIL during verification, and an
asyncconvenience, if measurements on large packages justify it. - Documentation site (mkdocs-material) with API reference generated from the docstrings.
- Cross-language harmonization. A
verified-typescriptwith the same result model and the same names, backed by the same Rust facade through napi or WASM, and a shared conformance report format so that every SDK publishes the same table. - Shared verifier crate extraction, if and when two SDKs need the binding facade on a release cadence the CLI's repository does not fit. Not before; see ecosystem boundaries.
- Protocol work that SDKs should not paper over: trusted time for key
validity, a checked binding between a session claim and its turn claims,
selective disclosure of evidence. These belong in
wvp. - Broader adoption: adapters maintained with or by framework authors, and evidence gateways for common systems of record maintained by those who operate them.
A hosted service, a policy engine, billing or settlement logic, compliance verdicts, a key management system, and a tracing backend.