NOMOS Labs · Terms
Glossary
NOMOS
A governance and decision layer for autonomous agents.
UVO
The verification and observation layer that checks answers and boundaries.
Agent
An autonomous software actor that can request and consume services.
Decision Layer
A system that returns a decision path rather than a plain answer.
Governance Record
A machine-readable trace of a decision.
Receipt
A machine-readable record associated with a payment or action.
x402
A machine-payment and access mechanism.
MCP
A protocol for connecting models to tools and context.
A2A
Agent-to-agent interaction.
Federation Surface
The canonical machine-discovery surface (agentnomos.network).
Read-only Demo
The public interface mode with no live execution.
Execution Boundary
The line between explaining a decision and acting on it.
Public Knowledge Card
A vetted, public-safe unit of knowledge surfaced in a response.