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Covenant spans everything from the software that runs on your own machine to a compute network on Solana mainnet. Here is where each part stands today. No item is marked Live until it has shipped.

Live
25
Available today.
In progress
02
Being built or set up now.
Next
14
The next things we plan to ship.
Planned
22
Further out, after the items marked Next.
  1. 15 live · 4 planned
  2. 10 live · 4 next · 1 planned
  3. CompanyIn progress
    2 in progress
  4. 10 next
  5. 5 planned
  6. 7 planned
  7. 5 planned
63 items across 7 tracks

Milestone 0Operating layer

Foundation

Live

Covenant's operating layer is software on your own machine that lets engineers and researchers build and run autonomous agents within permissions and budgets they set.

15 live · 4 planned

Live· 15

  1. 01

    Local daemon

    Covenant runs in the background on your machine, and you control it from the command line, an interactive terminal app, a web console, or a local HTTP gateway.

  2. 02

    Built-in features

    Agent identity, permissions, durable memory, an append-only activity log, agent-to-agent messaging, a Model Context Protocol (MCP) bridge, a budget ledger, and local receipts for the resources agents use.

  3. 03

    Budget limits

    A process runtime that stops a run as soon as it is projected to overspend its budget or reaches a hard time limit, with optional Linux sandboxing.

  4. 04

    Signed permissions

    A signed lifecycle for every permission: grant, scope check, expiry, and revocation.

  5. 05

    Provenance

    Verifiable workflow records, and provenance tied to a specific commit for every privileged action.

  6. 06

    Public sandbox

    Try Covenant at sandbox.opencovenant.org without installing anything.

  7. 07

    Live progress

    Watch an agent work in real time from the command line, the web console, or the HTTP gateway.

  8. 08

    Isolated code execution

    Agents write, run, and iterate on real code in a contained environment.

  9. 09

    Model providers

    Plug in Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, or local Ollama once, with automatic local fallback.

  10. 10

    Save and resume

    An agent that reaches its resource budget saves its task midway and can resume from there.

  11. 11

    Onchain identity

    Each agent has an identity on Solana mainnet, built on Metaplex MPL Core, with the root hash of its activity log attested there; anyone can confirm it with the Covenant Verified check.

  12. 12

    Settlement program

    Covenant's settlement program runs on Solana mainnet and handles staking, slashing, anchoring receipts onchain, and buying credits with CVNT to pay for the resources agents use.

  13. 13

    Identity on Base

    Covenant's own agent is registered on Base under ERC-8004, with a deployed bond-receipt verifier, a reputation schema on the Ethereum Attestation Service (EAS), and ENS name resolution, all pointing back to its canonical Solana identity and verifiable with a single signature check. CVNT never leaves Solana.

  14. 14

    TypeScript SDK

    On npm as @covenant-org/sdk: signed settlement, staking, and receipt-anchor instructions, built from the onchain program IDLs.

  15. 15

    Open source

    Covenant's source code is licensed under Apache 2.0.

Planned· 04

  1. 16

    Settlement from the daemon

    The daemon will pay for the resources agents use through the settlement program on Solana.

  2. 17

    Reputation and bonds

    Recording reputation onchain and funding bonds on Base and Robinhood Chain, where the verifiers are already deployed.

  3. 18

    Payments on Robinhood Chain

    Agents will pay in USDG over x402, an open standard for payments over HTTP, on Robinhood Chain mainnet (chain 4663), where a first payment has already settled.

  4. 19

    Spend escrow on Robinhood Chain

    Agents will spend from an onchain grant with a per-call ceiling and a provider allowlist, and providers will be paid only for output that passes its checks. Blocking an overspend, paying out, and refunding have already been proven onchain.

Compute network

Covenant Compute

Live

A network where people and their agents rent GPUs by the second and pay for finished work in USDC. It runs on Solana mainnet, with metering on MagicBlock.

10 live · 4 next · 1 planned

Live· 10

  1. 01

    GPU rental by the second

    Each session's meter runs on a MagicBlock ephemeral rollup, where updating it costs nothing, and the session settles on Solana once, when it ends.

  2. 02

    Coding agents for hire

    One operator's agent makes the change in your repository, a different operator runs your acceptance tests on it, and you pay only for work that passes.

  3. 03

    Hidden tests

    Tests you keep hidden from the agent can be added to the check, so the work has to hold up beyond the tests the agent could read.

  4. 04

    Two-step bug fixes

    One agent writes tests that reproduce the bug, a second agent from a different operator fixes it, and nothing is charged unless the fix passes.

  5. 05

    Verdicts onchain

    Every operator who checks the work signs a verdict, and each verdict is counted on the MagicBlock rollup and recorded on Solana before anyone is paid.

  6. 06

    Work from IMD

    Research reports and other finished work from IMD, a swarm of about 1,000 AI agents: you pay in USDC, and you get a full refund if nothing arrives.

  7. 07

    Receipts

    Every payout can be checked on Solana, and finished work arrives with a receipt signed by the operator who did it.

  8. 08

    Staked operators

    Operators stake 1,000,000 CVNT for each node before it can take work, and lose part of that stake if the network proves a fault.

  9. 09

    Agent access

    Agents can order this work through MCP tools or the command line, with a spending limit on every call.

  10. 10

    One-command install

    Signed builds of Covenant Compute's tools for macOS and Linux, installed through Homebrew or the install script.

Next· 04

  1. 11

    Inference and embeddings

    From network operators, through OpenAI- and Anthropic-compatible endpoints.

  2. 12

    Research from X and the web

    Research reports drawn from live posts on X and the web, at a fixed price per report.

  3. 13

    Pay per job

    Pay for a single job through x402, an open standard for payments over HTTP, without an account or a deposit.

  4. 14

    macOS installer

    A macOS installer (.dmg) for Covenant Compute's tools, notarized by Apple so macOS opens it without a security warning.

Planned· 01

  1. 15

    Desktop app

    An official Covenant Compute app for macOS and Linux.

Organization

Company

In progress

Incorporating Covenant and verifying its official account on X.

2 in progress

  1. 01

    Incorporation

    Incorporating Covenant as a company.

  2. 02

    Verified on X

    Verified Organization status on X, so the gold checkmark lets you tell the official @OpenCovenant account from impersonators.

Milestone 1Operating layer

Production Readiness, Tools, and Marketplace Groundwork

Next

The next release brings the core tools agents need and the groundwork for a marketplace of agent tools, starting with the plugin catalog.

10 next

  1. 01

    Plugin catalog

    Install vetted tools in one click from inside the web console, starting with filesystem access.

  2. 02

    Hardened runtime

    Production-grade isolation for untrusted agent code on Linux.

  3. 03

    Signed installers

    Homebrew, Debian, RPM, and notarized macOS packages.

  4. 04

    Stable wire formats

    For SDK and integration compatibility.

  5. 05

    Browser tool

    Agents that navigate, click, and read pages.

  6. 06

    Git host integration

    Read repositories, comment on issues, and propose pull requests.

  7. 07

    Replay debugger

    Pick any moment from the activity log, see the full state, and re-run from there.

  8. 08

    Python and Rust SDKs

    Published to PyPI and crates.io.

  9. 09

    VS Code

    Editor integration for Visual Studio Code.

  10. 10

    Framework adapters

    For LangGraph and CrewAI.

Milestone 2Operating layer

Native Integration

Planned

Deeper integration with the host operating system, on the desktop and on mobile.

5 planned

  1. 01

    Desktop compositor

    The first version of Covenant's compositor, which shows agents' state, decisions, and results to the person running them, with native Wayland integration on Linux.

  2. 02

    Orchestrator agent

    An agent that splits a task across other agents and brings their results together.

  3. 03

    Memory compaction

    Across the working, episodic, and long-term memory tiers.

  4. 04

    First-run onboarding

    Guided setup the first time you run Covenant.

  5. 05

    Mobile companion

    A read-only companion app.

Milestone 3Operating layer

Distributed Operation

Planned

Multi-host operation, federated identity, and cross-organization workflows.

7 planned

  1. 01

    Multi-host teams

    Agent teams that work across machines, with agents addressed as name@host.tld.

  2. 02

    Agent registry

    A public registry with one-line install and signed manifests.

  3. 03

    MicroVM isolation

    Lightweight virtual machines that keep agent code isolated from the host.

  4. 04

    Memory sync

    One identity's memory, synchronized across devices.

  5. 05

    Agent migration

    Move an agent from one host to another.

  6. 06

    Cross-organization trust

    Ways for organizations to establish trust with each other when they do business in the marketplace.

  7. 07

    Cross-chain enforcement

    Slash a Solana bond from an event proven on an EVM chain, with an objective fault definition and a challenge window.

Milestone 4Operating layer

1.0 Release

Planned

A formal commitment to long-term API stability.

5 planned

  1. 01

    Stable v1 formats

    The v1 wire formats for IPC, permissions, and agent manifests, covered by the formal commitment to long-term API stability.

  2. 02

    Long-term support

    A long-term support release line.

  3. 03

    Bug bounty

    Rewards for security researchers who find and report vulnerabilities in Covenant.

  4. 04

    Complete documentation

    Across all primitives and public APIs.

  5. 05

    Conformance suite

    For third-party runtimes compatible with Covenant.

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