Hanzo Improvement Proposals (HIPs)

Hanzo Improvement Proposals (HIPs) are the primary mechanism for proposing new features, gathering community input, and documenting design decisions for the Hanzo AI ecosystem. This process ensures that changes to the Hanzo platform are transparently reviewed and achieve community consensus before implementation.

What is a HIP?

A Hanzo Improvement Proposal (HIP) is a design document that provides information to the Hanzo community about a proposed change to the system. HIPs serve as the formal pathway to introduce improvements and build agreement on their adoption. They are used for:

• Proposing new AI architectures, models, and infrastructure
• Defining standards for agent frameworks, protocols, and interfaces
• Collecting community input on platform design
• Documenting design decisions with pedagogical context (why we built what we built)

Quick Start

• New to HIPs? Begin with HIP-0000, the Hanzo AI Architecture overview
• Create a new HIP: copy docs/templates/hip-template.md to HIPs/hip-<NNNN>-<slug>.md, then run python3 scripts/lint-hips.py
• View all HIPs: See the complete index below

HIP Index

Number	Title	Type	Category	Status
HIP-0000	Hanzo AI Architecture & Framework	Meta	-	Final
HIP-0001	AI Token - Hanzo's Native Currency	Standards Track	Core	Review
HIP-0002	Hamiltonian Large Language Models (HLLMs) Specification	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0003	Jin Multimodal AI Architecture	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0004	LLM Gateway - Unified AI Provider Interface	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0005	Post-Quantum Security for AI Infrastructure	Standards Track	Security	Final
HIP-0006	Per-User Fine-Tuning Architecture for Personalized AI	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0007	Active Inference Integration for Hamiltonian LLMs	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0008	HMM (Hanzo Market Maker) - Native DEX for AI Compute...	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0009	Agent SDK - Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0010	Model Context Protocol (MCP) Integration Standards	Standards Track	Interface	Final
HIP-0011	Chat Interface Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0012	Search Interface Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0013	Workflow Execution Standard	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0014	Application Deployment Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0015	Computer Control Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0017	Analytics Event Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0018	Payment Processing Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0019	Tensor Operations Standard	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0020	Blockchain Node Standard	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0024	Hanzo Sovereign L1 Chain Architecture	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0025	Bot Agent Wallet & RPC Billing Protocol	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0026	Identity & Access Management Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0027	Secrets Management Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0028	Key-Value Store Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0029	Relational Database Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0030	Event Streaming Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0033	Container Registry Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0035	Image & Video Generation Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0036	CI/CD Build System Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0039	Zen Model Architecture	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0040	Multi-Language SDK Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0041	The Hanzo CLI — a Projection of the Served API	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0042	Vector Search Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0043	Hanzo Engine — LLM Inference Engine Standard	Standards Track	Core	Active
HIP-0045	Documentation Framework Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0046	Embeddings Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0047	Analytics Datastore Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0049	DNS Service Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0050	Hanzo Edge — Edge AI Runtime Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0060	Serverless Functions (FaaS) Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0061	Notification & Messaging Service Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0063	Feature Flags & Experimentation Standard	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0064	Log Aggregation & Search Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0065	Backup & Disaster Recovery Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0068	Ingress Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0069	Service Discovery & Auto-Bridge	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0074	Software Bill of Materials & Git Stamp Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0077	Mesh Identity, Gossip & Payments (PQ)	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0078	Z-Chain — Post-Quantum Identity & Attestation Rollup	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0079	Q-Chain — Quasar Finality Block Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0084	Pulsar-M — Threshold ML-DSA DKG & Signing	Standards Track	Cryptography	Draft
HIP-0085	Wallet PQ Account Type (ML-DSA-65 native, 48-byte Ac...	Standards Track	Cryptography	Final
HIP-0086	TxAuthEnvelope (typed PQ transaction signing)	Standards Track	Cryptography	Final
HIP-0087	PQ Permit (replaces EIP-2612)	Standards Track	Cryptography	Final
HIP-0088	Session KEM (ML-KEM-768/1024 for P2P)	Standards Track	Cryptography	Final
HIP-0089	DRBG / Randomness Beacon (SP 800-90A/B)	Standards Track	Cryptography	Draft
HIP-0095	QoS Challenge System	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0096	AI Compute Contribution Rewards	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0097	Node Identity and the did:hanzo: DID Method	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0098	Governance / Upgrade Keys (ML-DSA-87 / SLH-DSA cold ...	Standards Track	Cryptography	Draft
HIP-0101	Hanzo-Lux Bridge Protocol Integration	Standards Track	Bridge	Draft
HIP-0102	Omnichain Bridge Integration	Standards Track	Bridge	Final
HIP-0103	Bridge PQ-Only Profile	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0104	Contract Auth via Z-Chain Proof	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0105	In-Process Extension Runtime Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0106	The Hanzo Plugin Contract	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0107	Streaming Replication over VFS	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Review
HIP-0108	On-Demand Subsystem Supervisor + Warm Pool	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0109	Hanzo ML Cloud Toolkit	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0111	Hanzo IAM Authentication Standard	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0113	Cognitive Sidecar & Hanzo Engine Provider Runtime fo...	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0114	ZAP — Inter-VM Cognitive Transport for Thinking Chains	Standards Track	Core	Review
HIP-0115	Hanzo Frontend Delivery	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0116	Hanzo Plugin & VM Model	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Superseded
HIP-0117	Cloud-in-a-Box — One Binary, Three Modes	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Review
HIP-0118	SuperAdmin & Tenant Isolation Model	Standards Track	Security	Review
HIP-0119	Hanzo Service Conventions	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0120	ZAP-Native Transport & gRPC Elimination	Standards Track	Core	Review
HIP-0121	BYO Compute Fleet & Metered Billing	Standards Track	Core	Review
HIP-0122	zip — The ZAP-Native Application Server Core	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0123	Visor — Fleet & Fabric Autoscaling Across Any Provider	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Review
HIP-0124	Bring-Your-Own Provider & AI — Unified Dashboard and...	Standards Track	Platform	Final
HIP-0125	Consensus-Backed Plugin-Placement Platform	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0126	Integrations, Connectors & the Extension Runtime — O...	Standards Track	Interface	Review
HIP-0127	V8 · Open Edition — Architecture, Distribution & the...	Standards Track	Meta	Active
HIP-0128	Resource Surface Standard — Generated REST over ZAP	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0129	Eval — The Judgment Plane	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0130	Open-Core Split — the Tenancy Line, the Composition ...	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0132	One Telemetry Plane — One Door, One Schema, Many Lenses	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0133	Entity Groups — Placement, Durability, Splitting and...	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0134	One Process, One Socket, One Identity	Standards Track	Core	Final
HIP-0135	What Is Public	Process	Governance	Final
HIP-0136	One Secret, One Path	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0137	One License	Process	Governance	Active
HIP-0200	Responsible AI Principles and Commitments	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0201	Model Risk Management	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0210	Safety Evaluation Framework	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0220	Bias Detection & Mitigation	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0230	AI Transparency & Explainability	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0240	AI Incident Response	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0250	Sustainability Standards Alignment Matrix	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0251	AI Compute Carbon Footprint	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0260	Efficient Model Practices	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0270	AI Supply Chain Responsibility	Meta	-	Draft
HIP-0301	Agent Runtime Protocols & Cross-Platform Parity	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0302	Hanzo Replicate: Encrypted SQLite Durability for Bas...	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0303	Hanzo adopts LP-0010: Brand Sovereignty and Federati...	Meta	Governance	Final
HIP-0305	esign: shared-DB tenancy via team-where, not file-pe...	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Final
HIP-0306	AML Transaction Monitoring, Screening and Case Manag...	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Draft
HIP-0400	Service CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0401	Datastore CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0402	SQL CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0403	KV CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0404	DocDB CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0405	S3 CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0406	DNS CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0407	Base CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0408	IAM CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0409	KMS CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0410	LLM CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0411	Ingress CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0412	Gateway CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0413	MPC CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0414	Network CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0418	Indexer CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0419	Explorer CRD	Standards Track	Operator	Final
HIP-0504	Unified Cross-Platform Design System	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0506	Hanzo Studio — Agentic Multi-Modal Creative Runtime	Standards Track	Application	Draft
HIP-0512	Experiment — The Evidence Plane	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0516	Translate — One Endpoint, Two Tiers, Permissive Weights	Standards Track	Core	Final
HIP-0517	Branch Naming — main is the Trunk, Everywhere	Process	Meta	Active
HIP-0518	AML — The Obligation Plane	Standards Track	Interface	Draft
HIP-0519	One Identity Boundary	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0520	Serving Topology — Three Tiers, Horizontally Scalabl...	Standards Track	Infrastructure	Active
HIP-0521	Org Hierarchy	Standards Track	Security	Draft
HIP-0901	Proof of AI (PoAI) — Native Execution Proofs, Canoni...	Standards Track	Core	Final
HIP-0902	Proof of Code — Consensus over Git Refs	Standards Track	Core	Draft
HIP-0903	The Agentic Company — Autonomous Firms on Hanzo	Informational	Meta	Draft

HIP Process

1. Have an idea - Discuss with the community
2. Draft your HIP - Copy docs/templates/hip-template.md
3. Submit a Pull Request - To the hanzoai/hips repository
4. Get reviewed - HIP editors review for completeness
5. Build consensus - Community discussion and feedback
6. Last Call - Final 14-day review period
7. Final - Accepted as standard

Types of HIPs

scripts/lint-hips.py holds the machine copy of these three vocabularies and fails the build on any value outside them. This section and that file must agree.

• Standards Track: describes one thing we build and maintain. Exactly one public repository, and exactly one HIP for it. Requires a category.
• Process: how we work — numbering, branch names, what is public. Not 1:1 with a repository, and not expected to be.
• Meta: governance, principles, and commitments.
• Informational: guidance that normatively requires nothing.

Categories

Standards Track HIPs carry exactly one:

Core · Interface · Infrastructure · Security · Cryptography · Operator · Bridge · Governance · Meta · Application · Platform

Status

Status	Meaning
Draft	Written, not yet reviewed
Review	Under review by HIP editors
Last Call	Final 14-day review window
Final	Accepted as standard; changing it needs a new HIP
Active	Accepted and continuously updated (living standards)
Superseded	Replaced; MUST name its successor in superseded-by
Withdrawn	Abandoned by its author

There is one spelling per state. Proposed, Implemented and Accepted were each a second name for one of the above and have been folded into it.

Resources

• Documentation: docs.hanzo.ai
• Discord: discord.gg/CJCyAsm9Vr
• GitHub: github.com/hanzoai
• Twitter: @hanzoai

License

All HIPs are released under CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.

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