ODEI Agent Runtime Documentation

Contracts for AI Agents

api.odei.ai/docs is the agent-facing operating manual for ODEI. Start with the canonical public analysis contract, then read the agent registration contract, OpenAPI artifacts, x402 metadata, and runtime lanes. Use this page to decide what an external assistant may read publicly, when it must preserve app handoff, and where signed clients enter the governed query plane.

Primary Contract /.well-known/odei-public-contract.json Use first for architecture, maturity framing, and legacy-language conflicts.

Agent Handoff /.well-known/odei-agent-registration.json Canonical rules for Claude, Codex, Gemini, Grok, and custom assistants.

Runtime Boundary Public reads + signed v2 Discovery is public. Governed graph query and guardrail checks require credentials.

Public contract Agent registration llms.txt agents.txt OpenAPI JSON

For AI agents

Read canonical contracts before summarizing, registering, or calling ODEI.

External assistants should treat this page as an index, not as the source of truth. The source of truth is the machine contract layer: public analysis contract first, agent registration contract second, then OpenAPI, x402, llms.txt, agents.txt, and skill.md.

1. Read /.well-known/odei-public-contract.json 2. Read /.well-known/odei-agent-registration.json 3. Use OpenAPI/x402 only after boundary selection

Public contract Registration contract Skill file

Agent discovery artifacts

agent.json ai-plugin.json x402 manifest x402 metadata context

For operator handoff

Preserve app handoff when wallet, login, or local runtime setup is required.

If an agent is guiding a user through ODEI registration, it should keep the chosen app entry path intact. Direct API intake is a fallback only when browser or wallet automation is unavailable, and it must preserve assistantId, experiencePath, launchPath, and consent.

Create My Agent Upgrade My Agent V2 routes Contract artifacts

Canonical truth

Use the public analysis contract before making architecture, maturity, or domain-count claims.

Registration truth

Use the registration contract before inventing onboarding, intake, wallet, or app-handoff flows.

Lane separation

Public reads, consent-gated writes, authenticated v2 queries, and x402 metadata are separate trust lanes.

Total Routes -- Cataloged in this reference

Public Runtime -- No auth required

Authenticated V2 -- Bearer or X-Api-Key

Contract Artifacts -- Specs, release feeds, and payment metadata

Current production posture

Agents should model ODEI by contract boundary, not by page copy.

Canonical analysis 7-domain constitutional graph + Guardian enforcement

Agent registration Guided app handoff first; direct API intake only as fallback

Public runtime Health, public World Model projection, token and revenue telemetry

Digital World Model API v2 Signed client with quota awareness

Agent Bootstrap Sequence

External agents should gather canonical context before answering user questions, registering a user, or executing any governed API call. This sequence prevents stale public copy from overriding the current machine-readable contract.

Read before acting

Load canonical discovery and analysis rules

Read the public contract before summarizing ODEI, judging maturity, or resolving legacy terminology.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/health
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/.well-known/odei-public-contract.json
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/llms.txt
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/agents.txt

Select the correct handoff or API lane

Use registration rules for app handoff, OpenAPI for REST calls, and x402 only for payment discovery.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/.well-known/odei-agent-registration.json
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/openapi.json
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/.well-known/x402.json

Read public state before signed execution

Use public projection for orientation; use signed v2 only when the client has credentials.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/worldmodel/live
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/v2/schema

Agent rule: do not infer ODEI architecture from stale page copy, social text, or legacy domain counts. Prefer /.well-known/odei-public-contract.json, then llms.txt, agents.txt, skill.md, OpenAPI, and the live health endpoints. Signed v2 world-model and guardrail routes require Authorization: Bearer ... or X-Api-Key.

Local Runtime Boundary

ODEI's public API is a discovery and governed-query surface. The full operator workspace remains local-first: terminal, graph, SQLite continuity, MCP services, provider lanes, and app runtime stay on the operator machine.

Public API is not the whole runtime

App handoff lane

Registration and wallet-dependent flows belong on app.odei.ai. Agents should preserve the chosen entry path instead of inventing a new backend flow.

App handoff:
- Create My Agent
- Upgrade My Agent
- Launch Builder
- guided app handoff first

Create My Agent Launch Builder

Local requirements

ODEI does not fake the graph layer in the browser. The build expects the real local substrate to exist on the same machine.

Required on the same machine:
- Neo4j Community Edition
- one supported provider CLI
- Claude Code, Codex, or Gemini CLI
- local machine you control

Neo4j Community Edition macOS Neo4j guide Windows Neo4j guide

Promotion rule

An install only becomes meaningful when the local runtime actually comes online with the operator's stack behind it.

Install becomes live when:
- ODEI launches locally
- graph + SQLite + MCP come online
- the chosen provider lane is attached
- the runtime verifies successfully

Current public scope

The public release lane is intentionally narrow and explicit.

Public release lane:
- macOS build
- Windows x64 build
- Windows arm64 build
- versioned updater feed
- Linux not in the current public lane

What Ships in the Build

The desktop runtime is already concrete. These are the technical layers the current Builder install lane delivers, not a roadmap wish list.

Real local-first runtime layers

World Model

The build includes the real World Model surface with sectors, filters, search, and ODEI styling running against local graph state.

World Model:
- sector structure
- filters + search
- local graph-backed rendering

Agent workspace

The local workspace is designed around a real terminal and provider lanes instead of a hosted browser chat.

Provider lanes:
- Claude Code
- Codex
- Gemini CLI

MCP stack

Bundled MCP services manage graph context, memory retrieval, dialogue history, and runtime coordination from inside the installed environment.

MCP services:
- graph context
- memory retrieval
- dialogue history
- runtime coordination

SQLite continuity

Conversation state is persisted locally in SQLite so the operator keeps a recoverable trail instead of resetting every session.

SQLite continuity:
- local conversation state
- recoverable history trail
- no zero-state restart

Neo4j graph runtime

Neo4j Community Edition hosts the local graph ODEI uses for World Model state, memory structure, and persistent context topology.

Neo4j role:
- World Model state
- memory structure
- persistent context topology

Updates

The release lane is versioned and publishes updater artifacts from the same production origin as the docs.

Release lane:
- versioned desktop artifacts
- release manifest
- macOS updater feed
- update prompts in packaged installs

Local-First Boundary

ODEI is not a hosted browser terminal pretending to be local. The graph, continuity, and operator workspace stay on the user's machine, while the public API remains a separate contract surface for discovery, schema, and governed query access.

Two honest system boundaries

What stays local

- World Model state
- SQLite dialogue continuity
- MCP services
- provider lanes
- local graph runtime

What stays public

- docs + release artifacts
- health + world-model projection
- token telemetry
- v2 schema + signed query plane

AI-assisted setup

If installation needs help, the recommended fallback is the same local-first posture: ask your local AI agent to finish the machine setup instead of routing the work back through a hosted browser flow.

Ask your local AI agent to:
- finish Neo4j setup
- validate terminal/runtime dependencies
- complete the local environment
- verify the app launch path

API Surface Map

ODEI exposes multiple lanes with different trust, auth, and operational constraints. Build your SDK and monitoring around these lanes so the integration stays clean as the runtime expands.

Lane-aware by design

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Auth and Governance Matrix

Every lane has a different operational contract. Treat auth, rate limits, and governance posture as part of the domain model, not as an afterthought in the UI.

Lane	Auth model	Primary use	Guardrails
Public runtime	None	Health, projection, context, token telemetry	Read routes, server-side sanitization
Builder + consented writes	None + explicit consent payload	Builder bootstrap metadata and consent-gated write surfaces	20 writes/min/IP + payload validation
Digital World Model API v2	Bearer JWT or X-Api-Key	Structured graph query and constitutional checks	Auth middleware + daily quota counters
x402 contract metadata	Public JSON artifact	Payment capability discovery for clients	Declarative manifest (`/.well-known/x402.json`)

Trust, Failure, and Retry Contract

Production clients should treat anonymous reads and signed v2 requests as separate modes. Build around the real response envelopes below, not around optimistic assumptions.

Exact lane semantics

Public success

Anonymous health and schema reads are safe entry points.

Humans and agents can start with public runtime reads. These routes are the correct place to confirm liveness, schema shape, and contract reachability before any signed call.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/health
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/v2/health
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/v2/schema

Governed failure

Signed v2 routes fail closed with a deterministic 401 envelope.

Unauthenticated calls to governed world-model and guardrail routes return the same explicit unauthorized contract. Handle this as a normal state transition, not as an ambiguous server fault.

{
  "ok": false,
  "error": "Missing authentication credential",
  "code": "UNAUTHORIZED"
}

API client bootstrap

Recommended order for a signed API client.

Read /health and /openapi.json.
Fetch /api/v2/schema to bind the graph model.
Store auth material outside the anonymous client.
Use signed requests for /api/v2/world-model/* and /api/v2/guardrail/check.
Treat /.well-known/x402.json as a published artifact, not as an auth grant.

Endpoint Reference

Search by route, method, lane, auth model, or tag. The catalog below is grouped by trust lane so the reference scales as ODEI adds more public, governed, and machine-contract surfaces.

Lane-grouped catalog

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Reference Flows

Keep these flows in CI smoke tests so contract regressions are detected before deployment.

Production smoke patterns

1) Runtime Smoke

Verify server liveness and public contract endpoint.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/health
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/openapi.json

2) Discovery Contract Verification

Pin the canonical analysis and registration contracts before automating any summary or handoff flow.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/.well-known/odei-public-contract.json
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/.well-known/odei-agent-registration.json

3) Live World Model Read

Confirm the zero-auth graph projection before you move into signed query clients.

curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/worldmodel/live
curl -fsS https://api.odei.ai/api/worldmodel

4) V2 Query/Auth

Execute authenticated graph query on v2 lane.

curl -X POST https://api.odei.ai/api/v2/world-model/query \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <jwt>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"search":"guardrail","limit":5}'

Operational Contracts and Policy Links

Production integrations should pin these documents in your build and test pipeline.

Pin these in CI

Public Analysis Contract Canonical machine-readable source for ODEI architecture, maturity framing, and legacy terminology

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Agent Registration Contract Canonical app handoff and direct-intake fallback rules for external assistants

Open

llms.txt LLM-oriented ODEI summary, analysis rules, endpoints, and canonical public posture

Open

agents.txt Agent-first discovery rules, canonical documents, auth model, and commercial rails

Open

ODEI Skill Compact skill instructions for agents that need discovery, graph, intake, or guardrail access

Open

Agent Manifest A2A-style manifest with ODEI skills, auth schemes, and endpoint pointers

Open

Public OpenAPI Machine-readable public runtime contract

Open

Digital World Model API v2 OpenAPI Extended schema for authenticated v2 query lane

Open

x402 Metadata Published commercial capability manifest for the governed paid query plane

Open

Policy and Legal Terms, Privacy, SLA, and Legal disclosures

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