cep-framework

🧠 Concept Exchange Protocol (CEP)

Version: 1.0
Status: Reference Implementation + Compliance Suite Available
License: Apache 2.0
Docs Site: CEP Docs
Docker (optional): ghcr.io/travis-farral/cep-agent

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🔍 What Is CEP?

The Concept Exchange Protocol (CEP) allows AI systems to communicate natively in dense semantic formats without translation layers, using secure, persistent vectorized communication channels.

It ensures cryptographic identity, trust, confidentiality, and dynamic ontology negotiation as first-class citizens of the protocol.

CEP aims to enable a new generation of machine-to-machine collaboration that is faster, more secure, and far more flexible than today’s human-designed APIs and data formats.

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🔑 Features

• 🔐 Signed message envelopes and replay protection
• 📦 Canonicalized ontology sync with patching and proof
• 🧮 Merkle tree inclusion proofs with segment verification
• 🧪 Automated compliance suite + scoring profile
• 🔁 QUIC/TCP transport fallback with clean session state
• 📤 Telemetry-ready for observability

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📁 Repository Layout

cep-framework/
├── spec/                     # Protocol specification documents
├── test_suite/               # Engine tests and certification profile
├── reference_agent/          # Python CLI agent with proof + sync
├── docs/                     # MkDocs-based documentation
├── .github/workflows/        # GitHub CI/CD for deployment
├── tools/                    # Canonicalization, proof, hashing (TBD)
├── CHANGELOG.md              # Version history
├── CONTRIBUTING.md           # Contributor guidelines
├── GOVERNANCE.md             # Project governance model
├── SECURITY.md               # Disclosure and scope of vulnerability reporting
├── mkdocs.yml                # Documentation site config
└── README.md                 # This file

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🚀 Quickstart (CLI Agent)

pip install -r requirements.txt

# Hash a JSON segment
python reference_agent/main.py --hash path/to/logistics.json

# Generate a CNP_ONTOLOGY_HASHES message
python reference_agent/main.py --advertise path/to/logistics.json

# Validate a Merkle proof
python reference_agent/main.py --verify-proof sample_merkle_proof.json

# Dump telemetry
python reference_agent/main.py --dump-metrics

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🧪 Run the Test Suite

python reference_agent/test_runner.py

Outputs:

• cep_audit_report.md
• cep_audit_report.json

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📄 Publish Docs Site (optional)

mkdocs serve        # Local preview
mkdocs gh-deploy    # Deploy to GitHub Pages

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🛡 Security

See SECURITY.md for how to report vulnerabilities.

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🤝 Contributing

Read CONTRIBUTING.md and see open issues to get started.

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📜 License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE

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🙏 Acknowledgments

CEP is made possible by everyone contributing to a more trustworthy, semantically reasoned internet.