Genval
Open Protocol — created at Genval · maintained openly

Typed knowledge that
crosses organizations.

Genval is the company behind Kanonak Protocol — an open protocol for defining, versioning, and sharing semantic ontologies across distributed publishers. Anyone with a domain name can publish a typed schema. Anyone can import it, validate against it, and reason over it.

Explore Kanonak See it in production → npm i -g @kanonak-protocol/cli
SECTION / 01 — INTRODUCTION
02What it is

An open protocol for distributed ontologies.

No central registry. No gatekeeping. Publishers own their namespace at their own domain; consumers pin versions with semver and resolve imports over HTTP.

  • 01

    Publishers

    Any domain name. Publish from a static HTTP origin you already control.

  • 02

    Packages & versions

    Stable URIs of the form publisher/package@version/name. Pin with semver.

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    .kan.yml schemas

    Clean YAML. Classes, properties, instances — typed against core RDF/OWL/XSD vocabularies.

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    CLI & tooling

    @kanonak-protocol/cli for validation and dependency resolution; VS Code extension for live feedback.

03In production

Worldview — Kanonak in a real domain.

An open-source daily macro-market worldview, published as versioned Kanonak snapshots. Typed theses, machine-evaluable invalidation, citation-backed evidence — the working illustration of how the protocol holds up under a domain that changes daily.

04Methodology

The protocol came from a methodology.

Kanonak is the operational form of Derivative Centric Development — the methodology we authored at Genval. Specifications stay authoritative; downstream code, models, and integrations are derived.

DCD describes the why. Kanonak provides the typed, versioned, distributed scaffolding to do it across organizational boundaries.

FROM METHOD → TO PROTOCOL
METHODOLOGY (2024)
Derivative Centric Development

Most code is derived from a human-authored spec; AI handles the derivation.

↓
PROTOCOL (2026)
Kanonak Protocol

Typed, versioned, distributed ontologies — published from any domain.

LEGACY05Console

The Genval console.

The Genval console is where DCD was first proven. It remains available; the work Genval is doing publicly today lives in Kanonak.

console / refactor

Autonomous codebase refactor

A scattered VIX-analysis project is restructured into clean services, models, and documentation — functionality preserved.

console / generate

Generate a full ecommerce stack

A Process chain turns Markdown specifications into a working ecommerce stack — DCD demonstrated end-to-end.

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06Get going

Start with the protocol.

Read the spec at kanonak.org. Browse Worldview's schemas. Publish your first package from a domain you already own.