These are the first projects taking shape within Empty Jars. Each is building a practical foundation for more transparent, accountable collaboration, and each needs questions, criticism, experience, and ideas from the people it may serve.
Each project has its own purpose and development path. They are presented here as work in progress, not as finished solutions.
A proposed environment where mission organizations could bring suitable technology projects into a shared professional community using established development and contribution-tracking tools.
Technology work that is commissioned in isolation may deliver a product without retaining knowledge, relationships, or reusable capacity for the wider mission community.
Explore the platform ideaA collaborative standard through which agent builders, ministries, institutions, and other participants could agree on basic requirements for agents that people may choose to use.
People should not have to rely only on sales claims when deciding whether an AI agent is suitable, responsible, and safe enough for a particular purpose.
Explore the standardThe Collaboration Platform may eventually implement the Open Agent Trust Standard, but the standard must remain independently understandable and usable by others.
Keeping the projects separate allows the standard to be discussed on its own merits and prevents one product from privately defining the rules by which agents are trusted.
A practical need, difficult question, concern, criticism, or early idea can help us understand what these projects should become—and what they should avoid becoming.
