ARCS

Governance infrastructure for automated systems is advancing across interoperability, permissions, orchestration, safety, and verification. A separate governance problem remains under-defined: the lifecycle of the records those systems create.

ARCS governs that record lifecycle layer. It defines controls for how interaction records and related operational artifacts are retained, classified, preserved, transferred, reviewed, and deleted across organizational and technical boundaries.

The standard is organized into ten control families covering record lifecycle, custody surface, record taxonomy, operator boundary, publish boundary, non-creation posture, preservation, verification, agent runtime, and delegation and memory.