cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use Covenant in research, please cite the whitepaper below."
type: software
title: "Covenant: A Capability-Based Operating Layer for Autonomous Software Engineering Agents"
authors:
  - family-names: Wasque
    given-names: Achille
    email: aw@opencovenant.org
    affiliation: "The Covenant Project"
repository-code: "https://github.com/open-covenant/covenant"
url: "https://opencovenant.org"
license: Apache-2.0
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Covenant: A Capability-Based Operating Layer for Autonomous Software Engineering Agents"
  authors:
    - family-names: Wasque
      given-names: Achille
      affiliation: "The Covenant Project"
  year: 2026
  month: 5
  doi: "10.5281/zenodo.20134416"
  url: "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20134416"
  publisher:
    name: Zenodo
