FJP-CONF — Flow Judgment Protocol Conformance

Flow Judgment Protocol™ (FJP) is the judgment layer for AI agents and enterprise decision systems. It determines what changed, whether it matters, what matters most, and what should happen next.

FJP-CONF is the public, vendor-neutral conformance standard for FJP. It defines what it means for an agent to make accountable decisions — decisions that can be traced, challenged, and audited — and ships a runnable test suite so any developer can verify their own agent.

• Specification: spec/v0.1.md · field reference: spec/schema.md
• Canonical URL: https://fjp.flowinfo.co/conformance/v0.1
• Status: v0.1.0 — public draft

FJP-CONF tests an agent's observable output, not its internal method. Two agents may reach opposite conclusions and both conform. Conformance asserts that a decision is accountable — not that it is correct.

The idea in one paragraph

Retrieval-grade systems answer what is true. They do not answer was this worth acting on, and how would we know if it wasn't. When an agent acts, three questions must be answerable afterward: what did it act on, why did it judge that worth acting on, and what would have made that judgment wrong. FJP-CONF defines the minimum externalized structure — the Judgment-Grounded Record — that makes those questions answerable, independent of how the agent decides.

The Judgment-Grounded Record

For every action it recommends or takes, a conforming agent emits a record with four components:

Conformance levels

Quickstart

Requires Python 3.11+. No third-party dependencies.

# validate a record at Level 2
python -m conformance.runner examples/passing_agent.json --level 2

# a non-conforming record
python -m conformance.runner examples/failing_agent.json --level 2

Exit codes: 0 conforms · 1 does not conform · 2 invalid input.

Programmatic use:

from conformance import evaluate, conforms

results = evaluate(record, level=2)
print(conforms(results))

Level 3 requires your agent to implement a small adapter (get_record, evaluate_falsifier); see conformance/adapter.py and examples/passing_agent_l3.py.

Run the tests:

python -m pytest -q

Claiming conformance

A conformance claim names a level and version and is reproducible by running this suite against your agent's output:

"Conforms to FJP-CONF v0.1, Level 2."

Authoritative verification and any official FJP-CONF certification are administered by Flow Information Systems. This open suite lets anyone self-check; see TRADEMARKS.md for what you may and may not call your implementation.

License and trademarks

Source code is licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 — see LICENSE. The code license does not grant rights in the trademarks.

Flow Judgment Protocol™, FJP™, FJP-CONF™, Judgment-Grounded Agent™, and "DNS resolves location. Flow resolves importance."™ are trademarks of Flow Information Systems (https://flowinfo.co). See NOTICE and TRADEMARKS.md.