Governance

Agentic Chaos is an open-source project run by its maintainers (MAINTAINERS.md) in the open, on GitHub.

Roles

• Contributors: anyone who opens issues, discussions or pull requests.
• Maintainers: review and merge pull requests, cut releases, triage security reports, and steer the roadmap. A project lead resolves deadlocks.

Decisions

• Everyday changes: one maintainer approval and passing CI.
• Changes to the public contract (API in __all__, the agentic-chaos/v1 format, CLI exit codes, report fields; see the versioning policy) and new top-level dependencies: an issue describing the change, at least one week for comments, and approval by two maintainers once the project has two or more.
• Security-relevant design choices (payloads, default redaction, proxy exposure) follow the same process and must keep the project's safety principles: benign canary payloads, inert-by-default instrumentation, and no features whose main use is attacking systems the user does not own.

Becoming a maintainer

Sustained, high-quality contributions (code, reviews, docs, triage) over several months. An existing maintainer nominates; the current maintainers agree by consensus. Maintainers who are inactive for twelve months move to emeritus status and can return by asking.

Security

Vulnerabilities in Agentic Chaos are reported privately (see SECURITY.md) and handled by the maintainers before public disclosure.

Name and trademarks

"Agentic Chaos" is the project's name. The phrase is also used elsewhere in the industry; for example, an AI platform vendor uses "Agentic Chaos" for a feature of its product. No trademark registration for the name is known to the maintainers as of October 2026, but this is not legal advice. A trademark clearance search in the relevant jurisdictions is recommended before registering the name, building a commercial offering on it, or transferring the project to a foundation. The project does not claim any affiliation with other uses of the phrase.

Changes to this document

By pull request, following the process for changes to the public contract.