A crisis of trust is hindering the transition to a sustainable and circular economy. In response, the European Union is pioneering the Digital Product Passport (DPP), a standardized digital identity for a physical product that provides a single, reliable source of truth about its lifecycle. This global policy shift provides the definitive analogue for MindLab’s core innovation. A MindLab Capsule is the Digital Product Passport for the agentic economy. It applies the same principles of transparency, standardization, and verifiability to solve the same problem in the digital realm.

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The Anatomy of a Capsule

A Capsule is a self-contained, version-controlled, and distributable unit of work that encapsulates a team of specialized AI agents, their associated playbooks, governance policies, and evaluation suites. The heart of the Capsule is the manifest file: a machine-readable governance contract and an AI Bill of Materials. This is a direct response to the supply chain risks of modern AI. The manifest requires structured information that maps directly to the seven characteristics of trustworthy AI, including:
  • Agent Context: The static knowledge, task templates, and instructional prompts that are packaged with each agent.
  • Model Size: The number of non-embedding parameters (N) of the selected model, the most accurate measure of computational cost.
  • Dependencies: A list of any other Capsules (Shared Experts) that this Capsule depends on.
By treating the entire Capsule as a single, version-controlled unit of source code, we transform “context engineering” into a disciplined, auditable engineering practice.