Community
The standard is open, and the standard is the community's. Here is how to take part.
The code
github.com/provecta - the engine (AGPL), the parsers (Apache-2.0), the sample migration, and the evidence annex. Issues and pull requests welcome; the CI pipeline re-runs the byte-exact gate on every push.
The agents
The rule packs (CLAUDE.md, and a .cursorrules sibling at launch) teach your coding agents the invariants: the validator is the only authority that marks a run proven, money is integer cents, and a MISMATCH is a diff to fix, never a threshold to tune.
The conversations
Discussions on GitHub for migration stories, benchmark reproductions, and estate questions. Plain Australian English, evidence over adjectives: a performance claim without a run record is not a claim.
Contributing
The gate rule never bends: no change may mark a run proven except a byte-for-byte comparison against the legacy reference. Pull requests that weaken this - tolerance flags, partial comparisons, skip switches - are rejected. Everything else follows the normal course: tests, the sample pipeline, the evidence annex.
Governance
Provecta is an independent project maintained by Provecta (the company). The Open Mainframe Project is the target governance home as the community grows - the same home as Zowe, and the right neutral place for the byte-exact standard to live.