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Connect agents to the content they need.

Use your organisation’s knowledge and licensed sources together. Content owners set the terms; agents carry the authority to use them.

Common Measure is building this network. What is available today is on How it works and Install.

What each side gets

For operators

  • Connect licences and supplier accounts once. Give each agent access for its task, with a budget and an expiry.
  • Keep one source record across internal documents, licensed content and the open web.
  • Connect through Edge or build the same interfaces into your own agent system.

For suppliers

  • Choose access collection by collection: your own agents, named partners or organisations with a licence. Keep the rest private.
  • Verify who an agent acts for, what it may do and which licence covers the request.
  • Receive reports of what was released and used at your chosen destination, without passage text.

Edge, Hub and CM Attestation

  • Edge

    Checks source access, licences, budget and incoming content before passing it to the agent. Keeps the record.

  • Hub

    Connects agents to shared policy, supplier accounts and licences. Arranges reporting and payment, including duties that outlast a task.

  • CM Attestation

    Names who stands behind the agent’s permission and obligations. Content owners verify it with Hub or another recognised issuer.

Extensions

  • Custom extensions

    Build security checks and content tools for your organisation using the same public extension contract as specialist developers.

    Build an extension

  • Private catalogue

    Keep in-house extensions private to your organisation. Approve what your agents run, set required checks and manage settings through Hub.

  • Extension marketplace

    Choose free or paid extensions from Common Measure and specialist developers. Review their permissions and approve them before they reach your agents.

From request to report

“Compare our internal guidance with licensed external commentary. Give me a short summary with sources.”

  1. Registered

    Hub

    The instance receives authority for one task, bound to a responsible operator before any content moves.

    Illustration

    CM Attestation

    Acting for
    The firm
    May access
    • Internal guidance
    • Licensed catalogue
    May do
    Research and produce a sourced summary
    Budget
    £100, this task
    Expires
    At the agreed deadline
    Reports go to
    The designated reporting service

  2. Checked

    Edge

    Source policy and allowance checks run before a request leaves the machine. Integrated processors check returned content before it reaches the model.

    Crossing refused

    Payment term unmet
    URL
    https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/09/mr-congeniality-burnham-advises-badenoch-to-ditch-the-point-scoring-over-defence-spending
    Licence read
    https://theguardian.com/license.xml
    Declared
    • ai-input · allow
    • train-ai · allow
    • ai-index · disallow
    • search · disallow
    Payment
    subscription
    Reason
    The licence https://theguardian.com/license.xml permits AI input under payment type subscription, and this edge holds no settlement rail, so the payment term is unmet.
    Fetched
    Nothing. No status, no bytes, no hash.
    Four fetches, two refused

  3. Reads

    Edge · Supplier

    The supplier checks the attestation with Hub and releases content directly to the Edge. Hub never sees it. Retrieval and later use are recorded separately.

    Illustration

    Two retrievals

    Article A
    Retrieved. Entered context.Grounded the answer. Later use is a separate event.
    Article B
    Retrieved. No further use observed.Acquisition recorded only.

  4. Answers

    Edge

    Each citation resolves to a source record. Authorised reviewers can inspect the evidence after the instance closes.

    Illustration

    Source record

    Source
    Publisher A · "AI Governance Review 2024" · §3.2
    Permission
    Collective licence · RSL Collective License
    Activity
    Retrieved 14 Sep 2026 · Grounded, same session
    Responsibility
    This instance · Acting for: The firm

  5. Reports and exits

    Hub

    Reports go to the destination the publisher named, directly or through Hub. Outstanding duties survive the instance.

    Delivered

    10 Sep 2026
    Supplier
    ozone
    Events
    3 in 1 batch, 3 new at the receiver
    Resolved to
    • Coventry Telegraph
    • The Guardian
    • Chronicle Live
    Onward delivery
    3 delivered, 0 failed
    Passage text
    Never left the machine

When it goes wrong

  • Access outside the licence

    The request is refused before content is fetched, with the reason recorded.

  • Internal content

    The organisation’s own permissions apply. Internal content never enters publisher reporting.

  • Reporting destination unavailable

    The report stays undelivered, held for recovery. Any grace period requires the publisher’s agreement.

  • Task fails or is cancelled

    The agent stops. The durable service keeps its outstanding reporting duties.

  • A read the Edge did not carry

    Recorded after the fact as observed. Never merged with a mediated crossing. The record says what it did not see.

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