# TRACE

> Trust Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence: open attestation standard for agentic AI governance

TRACE (Trust Runtime Attestation and Compliance Evidence) is an open specification for signed AI agent runtime evidence. A TRACE Trust Record connects workload identity, policy, data classification, and transcript commitments. Software signing, hardware attestation, and transparency inclusion establish different properties and require separate checks. Start with a local signed record and tamper detection, then choose the evidence required by your verifier. It builds on RFC 9711 (CWT/EAT), RFC 9334 (RATS), and SCITT, and ships a Python library, agentrust-trace, with a conformance suite.

## Getting started

- [Home](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/index.md)
- [Quickstart](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/quickstart/index.md)
- [Trust Levels](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/trust-levels/index.md)
- [Verification](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/verification/index.md)
- [Glossary](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/glossary/index.md)

## Specification

- [TRACE v0.2](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/spec/trace-v0.2/index.md)
- [Schema Reference](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/schema/index.md)

## Integration

- [AGT](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/integration/agt/index.md)
- [NVIDIA OpenShell](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/integration/openshell/index.md)
- [cMCP](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/integration/cmcp/index.md)
- [Sandboxed agent runtimes](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/integration/sandbox-runtime/index.md)

## Platforms

- [Overview](https://trace.agentrust-io.com/docs/platforms/index.md)