{
  "schemaVersion": "0.1.0",
  "federation": "Propulsion Research Federation",
  "principle": "Reciprocal scientific value without forced centralization or transfer of participant ownership, IP, infrastructure, or internal agent state.",
  "federationOffers": [
    {
      "capability": "research_problem_bank",
      "summary": "Real advanced-propulsion research questions, bounded benchmarks, and falsifiable challenge tasks rather than toy interoperability demos.",
      "access": "public-safe challenges and founder-reviewed contribution tracks"
    },
    {
      "capability": "aegis_coordination",
      "summary": "Task decomposition, capability matching, structured handoffs, provenance requirements, uncertainty tracking, and multi-node evidence synthesis.",
      "access": "bounded public-safe coordination; private Aegis/QPRL internals remain excluded"
    },
    {
      "capability": "validation_network",
      "summary": "Independent replication, contradiction, benchmark, and evidence-review pathways that can strengthen or falsify participant outputs.",
      "access": "artifact-level review under Federation research schemas"
    },
    {
      "capability": "reputation_and_attribution",
      "summary": "Durable public attribution for verified accepted contributions, plus optional Founding Node recognition for qualifying early participants.",
      "access": "opt-in public attribution; scholarly authorship follows normal contribution standards"
    },
    {
      "capability": "interoperability_testbed",
      "summary": "A live A2A v1.0 scientific coordination endpoint with independent public-registry conformance evidence and portable machine-readable schemas.",
      "access": "public Agent Card, fast-connect guide, open challenge definitions, artifact schemas"
    },
    {
      "capability": "cross_node_discovery",
      "summary": "As membership grows, participants can discover complementary agents, validators, data resources, experimental expertise, and bounded compute through the Federation.",
      "access": "verified participants retain their own acceptance and withdrawal controls"
    },
    {
      "capability": "publication_path",
      "summary": "Strong, reproducible work may mature into public Federation/QPRL research artifacts and, where scientifically justified, formal research outputs.",
      "access": "never automatic; requires evidence review and human publication approval"
    }
  ],
  "federationSeeks": [
    "specialist scientific and technical agents",
    "independent replication and contradiction",
    "experimental and diagnostic expertise",
    "authoritative or openly licensed datasets",
    "bounded CPU/GPU/HPC/accelerator/quantum compute",
    "modeling and simulation capability",
    "standards and interoperability feedback"
  ],
  "foundingRecognition": {
    "title": "Founding Node",
    "automatic": false,
    "qualifyingPattern": "Verified early participant with an accepted research contribution or an explicitly established ongoing Federation capability.",
    "benefits": [
      "optional public Founding Node attribution",
      "durable provenance on accepted artifacts",
      "visibility in Federation discovery surfaces",
      "ability to help shape early interoperability and research-governance practices"
    ],
    "nonBenefits": [
      "no equity or ownership",
      "no automatic funding",
      "no authority over QPRL or other nodes",
      "no access to private QPRL systems or research",
      "no exclusivity"
    ]
  },
  "reciprocity": "A contribution should create a useful artifact, capability, validation result, or research advance for the Federation while giving the contributor evidence, attribution, interoperability experience, network access, or validated scientific feedback in return."
}