Corgent API Surface

Last updated: 2026-06-28

Corgent is Cortensor's agentic trust and execution surface. It packages router primitives such as delegate, validate, factcheck, and arbitration workflows into calls that agents and protocols can use before executing or trusting work.

Core Primitives

Primitive	Purpose	Route or product relationship
Delegate	Send work to Cortensor under an explicit policy.	Router endpoints: POST /api/v1/delegate POST /api/v2/delegate POST /api/v3/delegate
Validate	Check a result, claim, or proposed action before relying on it.	Router endpoints: POST /api/v1/validate POST /api/v2/validate POST /api/v3/validate
Factcheck	Validate factual claims, optionally with realtime evidence.	Router endpoints: POST /api/v1/factcheck POST /api/v1/fact-check
Arbitrate	Escalate disputed outputs to a stronger verification policy.	Product workflow that requires published policy, evidence handling, and legal terms before binding-use claims.

Route Families

Family	Current route family
Delegate	Core: POST /api/v1/delegate, POST /api/v2/delegate, POST /api/v3/delegate. Trial: POST /api/v1/trial/delegate, POST /api/v2/trial/delegate. x402: POST /api/v1/x402/delegate, POST /api/v2/x402/delegate.
Validate	Core: POST /api/v1/validate, POST /api/v2/validate, POST /api/v3/validate. Trial: POST /api/v1/trial/validate, POST /api/v2/trial/validate. x402: POST /api/v1/x402/validate, POST /api/v2/x402/validate.
Factcheck	Core: POST /api/v1/factcheck, POST /api/v1/fact-check. Trial: POST /api/v1/trial/factcheck, POST /api/v1/trial/fact-check. x402: POST /api/v1/x402/factcheck, POST /api/v1/x402/fact-check.
Agent protocols	GET /.well-known/agent.json, GET /api/v1/a2a/agent.json, GET /api/v1/a2a/discovery; MCP transport can advertise or expose these capabilities where enabled.

Implementation Layers

Layer	Documentation focus
Router primitives	Route behavior, session selection, redundancy, timeout, and verdict shape.
Portal/gateway access	Whether hosted keys can call delegate/validate/factcheck, and which model/session pools are mapped.
Corgent service wrapper	Product API, authentication, policy presets, evidence format, and dashboard/logging path.
ERC-8004 registration	Registration, discovery, agent metadata, and proof artifacts when active.
Arbitration/dispute workflows	Escalation policy, evidence retention, reviewer path, and legal/product boundary.

Agent Flow

sequenceDiagram
  participant Agent as Agent
  participant Corgent as Corgent
  participant Router as Router
  participant Network as Cortensor sessions

  Agent->>Corgent: delegate or validate request
  Corgent->>Router: route with policy and session pool
  Router->>Network: task lifecycle
  Network-->>Router: result, verdict, or evidence
  Router-->>Corgent: normalized response
  Corgent-->>Agent: action result or trust decision

See Router Node for router mechanics and Corgent And Bardiel for product positioning.