Whitepaper: Agent Witness (Open Agent Verification Protocol)

[akramcodez]

Summary

This PR introduces the draft whitepaper for Agent Witness, proposing a standardized verification protocol and local runtime for AI coding agents.

As the ecosystem shifts towards increasingly autonomous agents, there is currently no widely adopted, local-first method for agents to securely prove their work. This whitepaper outlines a system to move away from blindly trusting an agent's completion claims and toward requiring cryptographically intact, deterministic local evidence.

Key Concepts Proposed

• Open Agent Verification Protocol (OAVP): A common, agent-agnostic interface for submitting claims and receiving structured feedback.
• Reproduction-First Verification: Enforcing that bugs are proven to fail on the base revision before a fix is accepted.
• Verification Feedback Loops: Sending structured evidence failures (e.g., test exit codes) back into the agent's context window.
• Adapter Model: A "write-once, verify-anywhere" ecosystem for integrations with Claude Code, Nanocoder, OpenCode, etc.