AIMS v2.0 ships.
Extended Systems Intelligence publishes AIMS v2.0 — an open governance specification for agentic systems — together with the reference toolkit (AIMS Atlas and AIMS Compass) and the agent registry.
AIMS — Agent Instrumentation and Management Specification — is a substrate-agnostic, model-agnostic, deployment-agnostic standard for agent governance. It defines four operational altitude layers (L-Intent, L-Plan, L-Form, L-Exec), three functional modes (M-Generative, M-Constraining, M-Integrative), and a conformance principle that separates required capabilities (the spec's WHAT) from delivery mechanisms (the implementer's HOW).
v2.0 ships with: the canonical specification text; AIMS Atlas, the reference memory routing harness across five memory categories; AIMS Compass, the reference model router with adversarial-challenge support; and the AIMS agent registry, where conformant agents declare their capabilities for audit.
Submissions to candidate standards bodies — NIST, IETF, W3C, OASIS, and MCP — are planned in the months following the release.