Specification CO v1.1 Applications 7 In Production 4 License CC BY 4.0
CO is domain-agnostic. Each domain application maps the eight principles, five-layer architecture, and three failure modes to a specific field. Seven applications exist. Four are in production, one is in development, one is in analysis, one is proposed.
All domain applications share: five layers (agents, context, guardrails, instructions, learning), six-phase workflow with approval gates, anti-amnesia design, and institutional knowledge that compounds across sessions. What changes is the domain-specific agents, skills, rules, and hooks.
COC: CO for CodegenSoftware development. The first and most mature domain application. 50+ specialist agents, framework-aware skills, automated code review, test-driven implementation. Reference implementation of CO.
ProductionRead the COC specification → COR: CO for ResearchAcademic research co-authorship. Citation integrity, literature synthesis, hostile reviewer simulation, deliberation records. Two modes: author writes (AI teaches) or AI drafts (author approves).
ProductionSource on GitHub → COL: CO for LearnersSubject-agnostic student methodology. Six-phase workflow, four approval gates, pluggable subject modules. First implementation: finance (COL-F, 24 agents).
In DevelopmentStudent methodology → COL-F: CO for FinanceFinance education. 24 specialised agents, 20 skill directories, 13 enforcement rules, 5 hooks. Course tutors for FNCE101, Corporate Finance, International Finance, and Financial Markets.
ProductionFinance education → COE: CO for EducationInstructor assessment tools. The COE Spectrum (4 levels of student freedom). AI-resilient rubrics that assess how students use AI, not whether they used it. Anti-gaming architecture.
In AnalysisInstructor tools → COG: CO for GovernanceStandards development, constitutional design, strategic analysis. The Foundation governs itself using COG. This repository is the implementation.
Production (self-hosting)Source on GitHub → COComp: CO for ComplianceRegulatory analysis. Requirement extraction, control mapping, gap assessment, audit preparation. Demonstrates CO generalises beyond codegen to regulated domains.
ProposedSource on GitHub → CO is designed for extension. The CO Template provides the scaffolding to create a domain application for any field. The CO Plugins marketplace distributes domain applications as Claude Desktop plugins.
The application template in the CO specification defines the process: map the three failure modes to your domain, design all five layers, and reference COC as proof that the pattern works.
| Layer | Universal | Domain-specific |
|---|
| L1 Agents | Agent orchestration pattern | Which specialists exist |
| L2 Context | Knowledge loading mechanism | What knowledge is loaded |
| L3 Guardrails | Hook enforcement architecture | Which rules are enforced |
| L4 Instructions | Six-phase workflow with gates | Phase names and approval criteria |
| L5 Learning | Observation and codification pipeline | What gets observed |
