Seattle – September 21, 2026 -- Glacis Technologies has agreed to transfer stewardship of OVERT, its open technical specification for verifying AI safeguards at runtime, to the Coalition for Health AI (CHAI) and the AIGovOps Foundation.
Glacis relinquishes sole control of the specification it created
Under the agreement announced today, CHAI and AIGovOps will jointly oversee the OVERT standard once a separate commencement certificate signed by all three parties takes effect. Glacis, the Seattle-based company that developed OVERT, will initially maintain the specification and operate its registry, but will act only as a non-voting editor once stewardship transfers.
OVERT generates tamper-evident records of AI actions without exposing protected data
OVERT (Observable Verification Evidence for Runtime Trust) defines a common format for evidence produced when an AI system acts, including tool calls made by AI agents. The specification creates independently verifiable records showing whether declared governance policies, security controls and oversight requirements were applied at runtime -- without requiring protected content to leave the operator's environment.
CHAI, representing more than 3,000 healthcare members, will surface sector-specific requirements
CHAI, a coalition started by clinicians with membership spanning health systems, patient advocacy groups, academia and industry vendors, will bring the specification before its community to explore its relevance across healthcare environments. Brenton Hill, Head of Operations and General Counsel at CHAI, said the collaboration gives organizations "greater transparency into AI-enabled actions and greater confidence in how these systems are governed at scale."
Glacis founder frames the move as addressing a "proof gap" in AI safeguard monitoring
"We wrote OVERT because we saw a proof gap in how critical AI safeguards are monitored, especially in healthcare,