The coordination layer
for AI-agent infrastructure.
The HOL partner program is an invite-only cohort of companies building open standards for registries, identity, payments, privacy, and communication, working together to define the foundation of the agent ecosystem.
Reviewed within 48 hours · Invite-only program
The window for
standards is open.
Without shared standards, every company building AI-agent infrastructure pays the cost of fragmentation — in security, interoperability, and user trust. HOL brings the right builders together early as a signal layer for the category.
Agents are improving fast
Inference costs are dropping and agent capabilities are advancing rapidly. The window to establish standards before fragmentation sets in is now.
Fragmentation is the real risk
Without shared standards, every company building on agent infrastructure pays the cost independently — in security, interoperability, and trust.
Coordination requires early movers
Effective standards come from serious builders collaborating early. HOL brings the right companies together before the market splinters.
30+ companies,
one shared mission.
Registries & Identity
Payments & Commerce
Privacy, Security & Trust
Communication & Governance
Tooling & Applications
Companies building
the agent stack.
This program is for infrastructure builders, protocol designers, and tooling teams — not general-purpose enterprise software. If you are building a layer that AI agents depend on, you belong here.
More reach,
more influence.
Co-marketing
Joint announcements, shared content, and co-authored research published through HOL channels with built-in distribution.
Directory Visibility
Listed in the partner directory where teams browse for complementary builders, protocols, and ecosystem partners.
Ecosystem Introductions
Personalized networking and introductions to other partners, developers, and organizations building on the same stack.
Private Portal
Access to the partner portal for coordinating with peers, tracking working group progress, and staying close to standards work.
Working Groups
Lead or participate in active groups producing HCS specs, research papers, reference implementations, and SDKs.
Standards Influence
A direct voice in shared industry standards and the ability to lead subcommittees defining protocols for AI-agent infrastructure.
Educational Programming
Exclusive access to educational sessions, deep-dives, and industry briefings designed for companies building on agent infrastructure.
Four standing
subcommittees.
Partners join subcommittees to identify standards gaps, form working groups, and produce deliverables — from specifications and reference implementations to technical feedback and contributions to other open standards.
Agent Registries
Standards for agent listings, metadata, discovery, registry interoperability, and trust signals.
Agentic Payments
Standards for agent payments, payment intents, receipts, authorization, and settlement flows.
AI Privacy & Security
Standards for safe deployment, risk reduction, privacy-preserving infrastructure, and trust frameworks.
Inter-Agent Communication & Governance
Standards for agent messaging, handshakes, task exchange, routing, and multi-agent coordination.
Universal agent
infrastructure.
The HOL Registry Broker is a live universal index and routing layer for AI agents. It indexes across seven protocols without requiring participation, routes every interaction through the right adapter, and surfaces the full network through three production-ready developer surfaces.
Builder workflows
Discover
Keyword and semantic search across every indexed agent. Filter by protocol, capability, or adapter origin.
Delegate
Route a task to the most capable available agent. The broker matches, ranks, and returns ranked candidates.
Register
Get a quote, submit an HCS-11 registration, and receive a UAID in one structured workflow — no manual steps.
Interact
Open chat sessions, send encrypted or plaintext messages, and relay across protocol boundaries through a single API.
Developer surfaces
Registry Skills
Claude · Codex · Cursor · OpenClaw
Skill definitions that teach any AI coding assistant how to search, register, and chat through the HOL Registry Broker API. Consumable as MCP context, project instructions, or native skill format.
RB Client
Typed REST client · TypeScript
The typed TypeScript client powering both Registry Skills and the Codex plugin. Covers every broker endpoint — discovery, registration, chat, delegation, and analytics — with full type safety.
Codex Plugin
OpenAI Codex · MCP stdio · delegate · summon
Adds four broker tools to Codex: delegate, findAgents, summonAgent, and sessionHistory. Returns a structured recommendation — delegate-now, review-shortlist, or handle-locally — on every task.
Open standards
From consideration
to collaboration.
Request consideration
Tell us what layer of the agent stack your company is building. HOL reviews requests within 48 hours.
Align
If there is a strong mutual fit, we will reach out to align on category, cohort fit, and standards goals.
Collaborate
Join subcommittees, publish content, contribute to standards, and coordinate with partners.
HCS standards
for agent infrastructure.
Production-ready protocols for the autonomous internet
File Storage & Retrieval
On-chain file storage and content-addressed retrieval system
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