Versions and changelog

Versions#

The specification is published one version at a time. This site carries version 0.4.2-draft, dated 2026-10-18, and the specification page names it at the top.

The source of every version is in the Common Agent Standards repository, where each version is tagged as mandate-v followed by the version. A tagged version is also kept at an address of its own: 0.4.1-draft, 0.4.2-draft. The main branch, which can be ahead of the published version, is rendered at agentmandate.net/draft/.

Versions 0.1.0-draft to 0.3.0-draft were written before the standard moved into the Common Agent Standards repository. The notes at the end of the specification say what 0.1.0-draft, 0.2.0-draft and 0.3.0-draft each changed.

Changelog#

The changelog is part of the standard's source and is reproduced here in full, newest first.

0.4.2-draft (2026-10-18)

Editorial, with no normative change. The Agent Reputations entry of §10 said an organization's evidence aggregates at the entity, which Agent Reputations did not define until its 0.4.0-draft. It names the organization report of Agent Reputations §8.5, which groups the records of the organization's agents by anchor and by mandate membership (§9), and says that each agent keeps its own record. No requirement, field, example, or section number changes.

0.4.1-draft (2026-10-18)

Editorial, with no normative change. The specification names no platform: Agent Messaging is no longer given a former name, and "the mesh" reads "the network". The missing version note for 0.4.0-draft (2026-09-01), the check at a resource proxy of §7.1, is restored to the specification, and the date of 0.4.0-draft below is corrected to match it. No requirement, field, example, or section number changes.

0.4.0-draft (2026-09-01)

The first version tagged in the Common Agent Standards repository, as mandate-v0.4.0-draft. The site of the standard showed 0.3 while the specification read 0.4.0-draft. The version here is the specification's, 0.4.0-draft.