Agent Envelope has no separate research papers or Internet-Drafts of its own — its documentation lives directly in the sm-aae repository, versioned alongside the code that implements it.
SPEC.md — the wire format
The normative eight-field envelope, canonicalization, signature scheme, and chain verification. v0.1, working draft.
↗ WHITEPAPERWHITEPAPER.md — the argument
Why agent accountability is retrospective, why a refusal usually vanishes, and why the envelope is deliberately minimal.
↗ THREAT MODELTHREATMODEL.md — what it defends, and what it doesn't
Field tampering, structural forgery, and chain tampering, against the stated boundaries: key pinning, replay, policy correctness, and timestamp truth.
↗ WALKTHROUGHWALKTHROUGH.md — a five-minute tour
Issue a verdict, verify it, chain two, and catch a tamper, in runnable Python.
↗ GOVERNANCEGOVERNANCE.md — scope and versioning
What's in scope, what belongs to a companion package or the consumer, and how the spec version changes.
↗Reference implementation and full source: github.com/Sharathvc23/sm-aae. Published to PyPI as sm-aae.