Machine surface

For agents

byre specifications are designed to be consumed directly by AI agents and language models. All documents are plain text, syntactically unambiguous, and available at stable URLs. No scraping required.

How to use these specs

Fetch the spec

Every spec is available as a plain .draft file at a stable URL. Fetch it, include it in your context window. No parsing, no transformation needed.

Check conformance

Each spec declares its conformance levels and the requirements at each level. Use the conformance suite to verify an implementation programmatically.

Query the family

The family manifest at byre.dev/family.json lists all specs, their versions, and their URLs. Start here to discover the full surface.

Specifications

SpecSourceConformance suiteStatus

draft byre.dev/content/standards/draft/v1.0.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/draft/suite.json Candidate

form byre.dev/content/standards/form/v0.1.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/form/suite.json Draft

fugue byre.dev/content/standards/fugue/v0.1.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/fugue/suite.json Draft

camber byre.dev/content/standards/camber/v0.1.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/camber/suite.json Draft

brocade byre.dev/content/standards/brocade/v0.1.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/brocade/suite.json Draft

vellum byre.dev/content/standards/vellum/v0.1.0/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/vellum/suite.json Draft

blueprint byre.dev/content/standards/blueprint/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/blueprint/suite.json Proposed

signet byre.dev/content/standards/signet/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/signet/suite.json Proposed

tendril byre.dev/content/standards/tendril/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/tendril/suite.json Proposed

logol byre.dev/content/standards/logol/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/logol/suite.json Proposed

data-model byre.dev/content/standards/data-model/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/data-model/suite.json Proposed

cartographer byre.dev/content/standards/cartographer/v0.0.1/body.draft byre.dev/conformance/cartographer/suite.json Proposed

Family manifest

byre.dev/family.json application/json

{
  "family": "byre",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "updated": "2026-05-24",
  "volumes": {
    "substrate":  ["draft"],
    "interface":  ["form", "fugue", "camber", "brocade", "vellum"],
    "data-logic": ["blueprint", "signet", "tendril", "logol", "data-model"],
    "domain":     ["cartographer"]
  },
  "specs": [
    {
      "id": "draft",
      "version": "1.0.0",
      "status": "candidate",
      "spec_url": "https://byre.dev/specs/draft.draft",
      "conformance_url": "https://byre.dev/conformance/draft/suite.json"
    }
  ]
}

Open implementations

The Byre Commons is a machine-accessible registry of open source implementations conformant to the byre standards. Query by spec, language, or conformance level.

Byre Commons commons.byre.dev/api