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# KYE Protocol™ — Developer Playbooks

Provider-agnostic, patent-safe **recipes** for making any AI agent KYE-aware.
Each playbook is a pure *pattern* plus links to the public schemas and example
payloads — it never restates protocol mechanism content (see constitution §33,
the IP/OSS Line).

These playbooks are the conceptual companion to the runnable
[KYE Agent Dev Kit™ starter templates](../agent-dev-kit-templates/) — read the
playbook for the *why*, scaffold a template for the *how*.

| # | Playbook | What you'll build |
|---|----------|-------------------|
| 1 | [govern-your-agent](./govern-your-agent.md) | Emit the §0.3 evidence family + a §52 binding from any agent, any provider |
| 2 | [authority-finality](./authority-finality.md) | The discover → authority → purpose → evidence → finality recipe |
| 3 | [policy-resolver-integration](./policy-resolver-integration.md) | Map a Cedar / OPA-Rego verdict onto the locked KYE DecisionOutcome set |
| 4 | [agentcore-and-kye](./agentcore-and-kye.md) | Wrap a cloud agent-gateway decision with KYE authority evidence |

## How to read a playbook

Every playbook follows the same shape:

1. **The problem** — the developer gap it closes.
2. **The pattern** — the provider-agnostic steps, as concepts.
3. **The public artefacts** — links to schemas under
   `https://kyeprotocol.com/schemas/` and examples under
   [`public/examples/`](../../examples/).
4. **What stays KYE-side** — the line where the public pattern ends and the
   KYE Reference Gateway™ takes over (no mechanism is disclosed here).

## What these playbooks are *not*

- Not a runtime, gateway, or agent framework — KYE governs agents as
  first-class principals; it does **not** run them (constitution §0.30 / §32).
- Not a competitor to LangChain / CrewAI / OpenAI Agents SDK / Claude Agent
  SDK / AWS Bedrock AgentCore — the pattern *wraps* whatever you already use.
- Not a mechanism disclosure — scoring weights, signing-key derivation,
  predicate ordering and cascade atomicity live in the patent track and never
  appear here.

## Related public surfaces

- [OSS index](../index.html) · [Getting started](../getting-started.html) ·
  [Packages](../packages.html)
- [Policy-resolver demo](https://kyeprotocol.com/policy-resolver.html)
- [Agent-governance example envelopes](../../examples/agent-governance/)