About
A research surface for Protocore
Protocore
Protocore is a runtime developed by Ascorblack Labs for stateful, tool-using agents. It focuses on durable execution, explicit contracts, observable streaming, and artifacts that can be inspected independently of a model’s final message.
The runtime core is open source. The protocore package is the agent loop and nothing else: twenty interface protocols, a ReAct runtime with snapshot and resume, a layered tool surface, tiered context compaction, and a frozen snapshot of 524 runtime constants, with in-memory adapters and a conformance suite for host implementations. It is a Python 3.12+ library with pydantic, jinja2, and typing-extensions as its only runtime dependencies, released under the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at github.com/ascorblack-labs/protocore-community and installable as a pre-release with pip install protocore==2.0.0a4.
The platform layer around that core—the enterprise services, sandbox control, chat and dashboard interfaces, and deployment tooling—remains proprietary.
This website has two jobs: explain the system as it exists today, and publish the evidence used to evaluate its design. It does not present research snapshots as timeless product promises.
Publication policy
Research is prepared from sanitized, versioned evidence. Papers state their methods and limitations, provide generated figures and tables, and offer PDF and source packages when ready. Private operational material is never used as public supporting data.
The MPL-2.0 license of the core does not extend to the proprietary platform or to this site’s content. A paper, figure, dataset, or code artifact may carry its own explicit license; absent such a notice, all rights are reserved.
Ascorblack Labs
Ascorblack Labs develops Protocore and maintains this publication site. Project updates and organization information are available on GitHub; the open-source core lives in the protocore-community repository.