Open standard
Governance badges.
Free to adopt. Every repo signals its license, its build status, its test coverage. None of them signal whether the agents inside have been told what to refuse.
The badges
Add them to your README. Link back here. That's it.
This project has a governance framework - charter, boundaries, drift thresholds, and accountability.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Agent Governance Starter Kit $49
This project specifies what its agents refuse to do - refusal categories, fail modes, and adversarial testing.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Agent Restraint Specification $49
This project has been audited against a 47-point sovereignty assessment across 7 domains.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Sovereignty Assessment Toolkit $49
This project has a voice architecture - designed to respect people, not manipulate them.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Agent Voice Architecture Guide $49
This project governs what its agents remember, what they forget, and who decides.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Agent Memory Architecture Guide $49
This project implements the full trust architecture - identity, voice, governance, and restraint.
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[](https://evoked.dev/badges) Framework: Trust Architecture Complete $49
How it works
Do the work
Write the governance framework. Define the refusal spec. Run the sovereignty audit. The badge means you did the work - not that you bought a sticker.
Add the badge
Copy the markdown. Paste it in your README. It links back here so anyone can understand what the badge means and adopt it themselves.
That's it
No verification process. No registry. No annual renewal fee. You're an adult. If you put the badge on your repo, we trust that you did the work.
Why this exists
"MIT Licensed" isn't just a badge. It's a signal - a one-line declaration that tells every developer who lands on your repo what they're working with. It compresses a legal framework into two words.
Agent governance doesn't have that yet. There's no shorthand for "we defined what our agents refuse to do." No signal for "we audited this system's sovereignty posture." You either read the whole repo or you don't know.
These badges are that shorthand. They compress a governance posture into a line in your README. They don't replace the work. They make the work visible.
The standard
This is an open standard. No trademark. No certification authority. No gatekeeping.
The badges link to evoked.dev/badges so anyone who sees one can understand what it means. The frameworks behind them are $49 each - or build your own. The badge is free regardless.
If you want to contribute to the standard - propose new badge categories, suggest improvements, challenge the framework - reach out.
Make the governance visible.