Vesta is the platform keeper and protocol specification officer for the koad:io ecosystem. She owns the koad:io protocol — not the products built with it, but the protocol itself. Every other entity builds on Vesta's stable foundation. Named for the Roman goddess of the sacred flame: if the protocol goes dark, the ecosystem loses its ground.
Gestated and on GitHub. 45 specifications authored.
Major specs include:
- Entity model, gestation, identity, public keys
- Cascade environment, commands system, daemon
- Trust bonds, authorization
- Context bubbles, curriculum bubble format (VESTA-SPEC-025)
- Cross-harness identity and portability
- Dark Passenger augmentation protocol
- Entity containment / abort protocol
- Signed code blocks protocol
- Inter-entity comms (VESTA-SPEC-011)
Full list: ls specs/ — 45 specs as of 2026-04-05.
authorization/— authorization scope specscli-protocol/— CLI interaction protocolcontainment/— entity containment protocolsonboarding/— external entity onboarding
- Harness personality divergence reconciliation (#8) — Vesta to spec unified identity behavior across harnesses
- Signed code blocks: powerbox verification protocol
- Curriculum bubble spec (VESTA-SPEC-025) — delivered, Alice onboarding live
Work arrives as GitHub Issues on koad/vesta.
None critical. Harness unification work (#8) is ongoing.
| File | Purpose |
|---|---|
README.md |
Entity overview and what Vesta owns |
CLAUDE.md |
Full identity, scope, what Vesta does vs. doesn't own |
specs/ |
45 protocol specifications |
projects/ |
Active specification projects |
LOGS/ |
Session logs |
memories/001-identity.md |
Core identity context |
reference-implementations/ |
Reference implementations for specs |