Standards Research
Standing research positions on the standards I keep investing in — what the specification says, and what providers actually publish.
The standards catalog describes what each standard is. These pages are the working research underneath it — the evidence from scoring the standard across every provider in the catalog, the primary-source conversations with the people who built it, and what I am building against the gaps I found. They are updated as the sector gets re-scored, and they are written to be argued with.
ARD — The Discovery Layer Its Own Authors Have Not Published
Eleven of the largest agent builders specified how the web should advertise its agentic resources. Nine companies did it, seven of them are outsiders, and none of them is fully conformant.
Standard: Agentic Resource Discovery · Updated July 2026
CAMARA — The Standard You Can Download and Cannot Call
The mobile industry built itself a real, open API standard with no mandate behind it. Then it published the specifications and kept the endpoints.
Standard: CAMARA · Updated July 2026
Spec-Driven Development — Twenty Thousand Repositories, No Grammar
Three toolkits taught a generation of developers to write the specification before the code. None of them wrote a specification for the specification, and nothing any of them produces can be checked by a machine.
Standard: Spec-Driven Development · Updated September 2026
openEHR — The Agent-Native Standards Body Nobody Reads That Way
The main structural alternative to FHIR publishes real OpenAPI, a real llms.txt, Markdown twins of every specification page, and three JSON endpoints — and not one of its thirty-four coalition companies is in my catalog.
Standard: openEHR · Updated September 2026
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