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The Quox SDK, built in rings

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The Quox SDK
Guided end to end by Quoxpert, the skill that makes your Claude fluent in Quox.
R0Protocols

Open protocol specs

AEE, WARD, VOLT and AOCL are open specifications, not lock-in. Published specs and a documented receipt format, so a third party can check a chain without our code. All four are live IETF Internet-Drafts.

Open, public
561 tests across the four SDKs, all green

In plain words

What it is, where it lives, when to reach for it

What is it
The developer surface of Quox: four open protocol specs, a plugin SDK, and two drivers.
Where do I use it
On your own development machine, against a QuoxCORE instance running on hardware you control.
When would I use it
When QuoxCORE needs a capability it does not ship with, or you want to read its evidence.
How do I use it
Run npx create-quox-plugin my-plugin for a plugin, or read the protocol specs under /docs first.

QuoxCORE is the free, self-hosted platform underneath this. What is QuoxCORE

Architecture

Six rings, one SDK

Start wherever your problem lives. Every ring inherits governance, evidence, and distribution from the ones inside it.

R1Ring 1

Protocol SDKs

Publishing at launch

Language libraries for building directly on the protocols. Publishing at launch, not available yet.

  • @quox/aee-sdkCompose and validate AEE envelopes
  • @quox/wardVerify WARD receipts and checkpoints independently
R3Ring 3

Visualiser SDK

In design

Build your own agent status visualisers for sidebar chats and QuoxChat widgets. In design, not shipped.

R4Ring 4

QuoxMCP + quox CLI

Drive Quox from Claude, or from the terminal. Two ways in that do not need a browser.

Where to start

Four entry points, by what you are trying to do

You do not need the whole SDK. Find the row that matches your problem and start in that ring.

01

Add a view or capability to the dashboard

Scaffold from one of eight templates, then hand the .quoxplugin file to an administrator. Plugin SDK docs

02

Move a tool you already built onto Quox

Find the archetype nearest your tool and read the four steps a conversion takes. The conversion guide

03

Drive Quox from Claude or a terminal

QuoxMCP exposes the platform as MCP tools; the quox CLI does the same without a browser. quox CLI

04

Read or verify the evidence Quox produces

Start with the envelope format, then the receipt digests that chain envelopes together. The AEE spec

Not listed: the protocol SDK packages and the Visualiser SDK. Both are named on this page because they are real work in progress, and neither is installable today.

The guide layer

Quoxpert

Quoxpert is a Claude skill that learns whichever ring you are working in: the protocol specs, the Plugin SDK templates, the build and install loop. It is the one guide that spans every ring on this page.

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Bringing an existing tool to Quox?

You built the feature. Quox is the surround: auth, persistence, approval gates, agent chat, evidence, and distribution.