The Focus AI Standards
The register
Standards: 11
In force: 1
Draft: 10
The Focus AI
standards.thefocus.ai
Guides: 12
Research notes: 6
Decision records: 4
Prompts: 1
Skills: 14

The register

Status of this register

Every document The Focus AI has issued, with what it binds and whether it is in force. A standard in Draft binds nothing: it reflects current understanding and is awaiting ratification, which only a person can give (STD-001 §3.14). Nothing below the standards binds anything at all.

This page is generated from the documents themselves. A standard that does not conform to STD-001, or a document that does not conform to STD-006, does not render, and so does not appear here.

Standards

RefTitleCategoryApplies toStatusClauses
STD-001 How a standard is written Process Every document in standards/ In force 18
STD-002 Issues and agent workflow Practice Every repository worked by an agent Draft 19
STD-003 Pull requests and branches Practice Every repository worked by an agent Draft 21
STD-004 Repository tooling and tasks Practice Every repository Draft 10
STD-005 Agent environment bootstrap Practice Every repository worked by a cloud agent Draft 9
STD-006 Documents and provenance Process Every document in this repository Draft 12
STD-007 Secrets and credentials Practice Every repository Draft 13
STD-008 Deployment Practice Every repository that deploys Draft 14
STD-009 Authentication Practice Every client-facing project with sign-in, and every product acting as an OAuth client Draft 12
STD-010 Agent services Practice A2A-discoverable agent services Draft 7
STD-011 Agent skills Practice Every repository worked by an agent Draft 7

Guides

Guides carry explanation, walkthroughs and reference implementations. They are not standards and bind nothing (STD-001 §4).

RefTitleRelates toStatus
GDE-001 Building an A2A agent STD-007, STD-008, STD-009, STD-010 Current
GDE-002 Clerk authentication setup STD-009 Current
GDE-003 Project secrets with fnox and 1Password STD-007 Current
GDE-004 GCE Gaia runtime STD-008 Current
GDE-005 GCP deployment STD-008 Current
GDE-006 Local development environment STD-004, STD-005, STD-007, STD-008 Current
GDE-007 pi extensions STD-005 Current
GDE-008 Standard skill set STD-002, STD-011 Current
GDE-009 Technology defaults STD-004, STD-007, STD-009, STD-011 Current
GDE-010 Vercel deployment STD-008 Current
GDE-011 Bootstrapping a new project STD-001, STD-004, STD-005, STD-007, STD-008, STD-011 Current
GDE-012 Auditing an existing project against the standards STD-001, STD-002, STD-003, STD-004, STD-005, STD-006, STD-007, STD-008, STD-011 Current

Research notes

Notes record what was true when somebody checked, against sources they cite. They are not standards and bind nothing (STD-001 §4).

RefTitleRelates toVerifiedStatus
NOTE-001 gcloud Cloud Run Deployments: Multi-Project Configuration Guide — 2026-02-02 Current
NOTE-002 skills CLI: Technical Implementation Guide for Agent Skill Management — 2026-06-25 Current
NOTE-003 Creative typography: research notes for DESIGN.md work — 2026-07-23 Current
NOTE-004 best-practices/ inventory: what migrates, what stays, what is missing STD-001, STD-003, STD-004, STD-005, STD-006, STD-007, STD-011 2026-07-26 Current
NOTE-005 Standards gap register: what is practised but not written STD-001, STD-002, STD-003, STD-004, STD-005, STD-006, STD-007 2026-07-26 Current
NOTE-006 Migration coverage map: every source rule to its clause STD-004, STD-006, STD-007, STD-008, STD-009, STD-010, STD-011 2026-07-26 Current

Decision records

Decision records settle a question for this repository and say what would reopen it. They are not standards and bind nothing (STD-001 §4).

RefTitleRelates toStatus
ADR-001 Standards Dockerfile redesign — Accepted
ADR-002 Wrapping a habitat in an Electron app — Proposed
ADR-003 standards.thefocus.ai design decision log — Accepted
ADR-004 Ticket selection is judged, not sorted STD-002, STD-006 Accepted

Prompts

Prompts are instructions an agent runs. They are input to a tool, not guidance for a person. They are not standards and bind nothing (STD-001 §4).

RefTitleRelates toStatus
PRM-001 Generate the standards Dockerfile — Current

Skills

Capabilities an agent loads when its triggers match, installable with skills add. A skill is cited by name and numbered here; STD-011 governs how one is installed and pinned.

RefSkillProvenanceRelates to
SKL-001 activity-report Authored here STD-007
SKL-002 browser-automation Vendored —
SKL-003 develop-design-md Authored here —
SKL-004 focus-ai-brand Vendored —
SKL-005 nano-banana-imagegen Vendored —
SKL-006 nano-banana-videogen Vendored —
SKL-007 paged-reports Authored here —
SKL-008 pptx-decks Authored here —
SKL-009 research-methodology Vendored —
SKL-010 setup-project Authored here STD-004, STD-007, STD-011
SKL-011 standardize-project Authored here STD-007, STD-008
SKL-012 tech-research Authored here —
SKL-013 work-next-issue Authored here STD-002, STD-003
SKL-014 standards-map Authored here STD-007, STD-008