Observed arrival · 2026-11-04
Canonis: an approval register agents can query
Canonis presents a register for an organisation’s approved software, standards and patterns, with conditions and decision records attached. The page also describes a read-only MCP interface for coding assistants.
- For
- Organizations managing software and technology approvals
- Worth noticing
- Its listed agent responses distinguish `found`, `not_in_canon`, and `ambiguous`; absence is explicitly not treated as approval.
Field notes
The product page describes a request-to-review workflow: pre-review checks route submissions, an architecture review board votes, and a chair signs; the requester cannot decide their own case. Its examples use eight statuses and show outcomes such as conditional approval, review, and deprecation. For coding assistants, the described MCP endpoint returns read-only results including `found`, `not_in_canon`, or `ambiguous`; the page says the latter outcomes never imply approval.
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