OPEN STANDARD
A common standard for how AI agents interact with government services.
Passports, visas, licenses, company formation: every government process is a form with rules. GovSchema turns those rules into open, versioned, machine-readable schemas. Each is backed by a verification practice confirming it still matches its live government source.
United States§1OVERVIEW
What GovSchema is
Agents now fill out those forms on a person's behalf, but each one reverse-engineers the rules by hand: what the form asks for, which answers are valid, how the steps connect. None of them knows when a government changes the form. Every team ends up rebuilding the same brittle, unverifiable integration, and no two look alike.
GovSchema is the foundation building that layer: the standard sitting between agents and government services, in roughly the position ISO, IETF, and W3C hold in their own domains. What we publish is a versioned specification, a public registry of conforming schemas, and documented methods for verifying each one. We do not build an agent, and we do not transact with any government.
SEE IT WORK
Watch an agent conduct a real interview
The live demo runs a schema-driven agent interview against a published registry schema. Every question, validation rule, and eligibility check comes straight from the schema at runtime. None of it is scripted for the demo.
§2STATUS
Where we are
We are founding the standard. This is early-stage work, and the table below states how far along each part is.
| Specification | Published Iterating ahead of the stabilization decision | done |
|---|---|---|
| Registry & versioning | Live: jurisdiction-grouped, versioned, deterministic paths | done |
| Verification practice | Practices documented; 9 schemas verified end to end Extending verification across the rest of the registry | done |
| Reference schemas | 643 published schemas across 124 jurisdictions Broadening coverage beyond the initial reference set | in progress |
| Governance | Foundation, open-source | done |
§3PARTICIPATE
Get involved
GovSchema is built in the open: the specification, the schema registry, and the verification practices all live in the same public source repository linked at the top of every page. More jurisdictions and more builders make the standard better. If you work on agents, or you know a government process well, read the spec, review the registry, and propose a schema.