Kanonak Protocol. Semantic ontologies, distributed.

Extracted from Genval. Released to everyone.

Kanonak is the operational form of Derivative Centric Development. It started as the processes we ran inside Genval to turn human-authored specifications into derived implementations.

Those processes proved general. So we lifted them out of the platform, formalized the rules, and published them as an open protocol — one that doesn’t depend on Genval, doesn’t centralize control, and lets any organization publish ontologies from their own domain.

How it works.

Four moving parts. Each one is small. Together they let typed knowledge cross organizational boundaries without a registry.

Worldview — Kanonak in a real domain.

A macro-market worldview, published as versioned typed snapshots.

Worldview is an open-source project that uses Kanonak Protocol to publish a daily macro-market worldview as versioned snapshots. Each snapshot is a typed ontology of theses — with confidence levels, machine-evaluable invalidation conditions (AND / OR / Threshold / Event / Sequenced logic trees), and citation-backed evidence.

It’s a working illustration of how Kanonak’s distributed publishing, semantic versioning, and machine-readable types apply to a real domain — well beyond a synthetic example.

The Timeline view charts how each thesis’s confidence has evolved across published snapshots — one curve per thesis, one dot per version — showing how versioned ontology snapshots compose into a longitudinal record humans and AI agents can both reason over.

domain

Macro intelligence — geopolitical & economic theses

shape

Bayesian confidence, evidence chains, invalidation logic

cadence

Versioned snapshot every 14–24 hours

audience

Macro investors & policy analysts (humans & AI agents)

source

github.com/genval-ai/worldview

One command. Validate anything.

$ npm install -g @kanonak-protocol/cli
$ kanonak validate my-ontology@1.0.0.kan.yml
✓ document is valid
$ kanonak deps my-ontology@1.0.0.kan.yml
→ kanonak.org/core-owl@2.0.0
→ kanonak.org/core-xsd@1.0.0

What the CLI does

validate

Fetches all imports over HTTP and checks the document against repository rules.

deps

Prints the resolved dependency tree.

install

Populates the local file cache from kanonak.lock.

capability add

Extend the CLI itself with dynamic command groups distributed as Kanonak packages.

Full reference, the protocol spec, and core vocabularies are at kanonak.org.

Where to look.