CCC Multi-Agent Reference Architecture Capabilities
Capabilities for Multi-Agent Reference Architecture technologies, as defined by the FINOS Common Cloud Controls project.
- ID
- CCC.MARefArc.CP
- Version
- v2026.06-rc1
- Gemara version
- v1.2.0
- Author
- FINOS Common Cloud Controls
User Interaction Layer
The entry point of the system, providing the interface through which users express intent, submit inputs, and review agent outputs.
CCC.MARefArc.CP01 User-facing application surface
Presentation and orchestration surface (web, mobile, chatbot, workflow tool, or integrated enterprise system) that captures user intent, forwards requests to the agent layer, and returns agent outputs.
CCC.MARefArc.CP02 Human-in-the-loop output review
Application-embedded controls that allow users to review, approve, or modify agent outputs before they are executed or shared.
Agent Gateway Layer
The controlled entry point into the agent layer, governing how applications discover, reach, and are policed before invoking agents.
CCC.MARefArc.CP03 Agent registry and lifecycle management
Catalog of available agents with their capabilities, metadata, and configuration, supporting versioning, lifecycle management, and controlled onboarding of new agents.
CCC.MARefArc.CP04 Agent request routing
Validates incoming application requests and routes each to the correct agent or agent group, abstracting agent-layer complexity behind a consistent interface.
CCC.MARefArc.CP05 Agent-ingress zero-trust guardrails
Treats all inputs as untrusted and enforces authentication, authorization, input validation, content filtering, access control, rate limits, and dynamic policy before any request reaches an agent.
Agent Layer
The core reasoning, coordination, and task-execution subsystems, including the sandboxed runtime, tools, memory, and learning.
CCC.MARefArc.CP06 Agent collaboration and orchestration patterns
Supports supervisor/worker decomposition, skills-based routing, and agent-as-a-tool handoff for decomposing and executing complex tasks across multiple agents.
CCC.MARefArc.CP07 Unified sandboxed agent runtime
Secure, sandboxed environment where all agentic reasoning and execution occurs, providing task state management for pause/resume/handoff and intercepting and validating tool calls with credentials handled securely within the sandbox.
CCC.MARefArc.CP08 Built-in trusted tools
A collection of bundled, trusted tools providing fundamental capabilities: the MCP client bridge to the external MCP layer, a sandboxed shell, workspace I/O, and web search.
CCC.MARefArc.CP09 Agent memory
Short-term in-session context management (trimming and summarization to control length, cost, and latency) and durable long-term memory across sessions, including session summaries and user/task personalization.
CCC.MARefArc.CP10 Sandboxed workspace file system
A sandboxed, persistent file system that agents use to read and write files, enabling work with large artifacts.
CCC.MARefArc.CP11 Adaptive learning
Generates learning signals based on execution outcomes to refine prompts, adjust agent configurations, or improve tool-selection strategies.
Knowledge Layer
The information foundation that grounds agent reasoning through authoritative source repositories and semantic retrieval.
CCC.MARefArc.CP12 Authoritative knowledge source bases
Internal and external repositories of structured data, unstructured documents, and graph-based representations that provide authoritative information for grounding.
CCC.MARefArc.CP13 Vector-based semantic retrieval
Vector databases providing semantic search and grounding so agents can find relevant information from large text corpora.
LLM Layer
The governed interface for accessing approved large language models, including registry, routing, and model-interaction guardrails.
CCC.MARefArc.CP14 Approved-model registry and lifecycle
Catalog of approved models with metadata, version information, configuration parameters, and usage constraints, ensuring agents access only models meeting organizational, regulatory, and security standards.
CCC.MARefArc.CP15 LLM inference gateway routing
Validates inference requests and routes each to the correct model instance, abstracting model hosting behind a consistent interface.
CCC.MARefArc.CP16 Model-interaction zero-trust guardrails
Enforces authentication and authorization for every inference request and applies input validation against prompt injection, output filtering and redaction, access control, rate limits, and cost management before and after model execution.
MCP Layer
The governed interface for accessing approved MCP servers, including registry, routing, and tool-interaction guardrails.
CCC.MARefArc.CP17 Approved MCP server registry and lifecycle
Catalog of approved MCP servers with metadata, capabilities, configuration, and usage constraints, ensuring agents connect only to servers meeting organizational, security, and compliance requirements.
CCC.MARefArc.CP18 MCP connection gateway routing
Validates MCP connection requests and routes each to the correct server instance, abstracting MCP connectivity behind a consistent interface.
CCC.MARefArc.CP19 MCP-interaction zero-trust guardrails
Enforces authentication and authorization for every MCP request and governs which agents may use which tools, applying rate limits and validating tool-call parameters.
Evaluation Layer
Continuous oversight, quality assurance, and adaptive improvement through feedback, human supervision, and runtime protection.
CCC.MARefArc.CP20 Feedback engine
Collects and aggregates structured and unstructured feedback from users, evaluators, and automated systems, including correctness assessments, preference signals, and quality ratings, to inform system improvement.
CCC.MARefArc.CP21 Human supervision and oversight
Mechanisms for human reviewers to inspect, approve, correct, or override agent outputs, supporting human-in-the-loop and human-over-the-loop workflows for sensitive or high-impact tasks.
CCC.MARefArc.CP22 Runtime protection
Monitors agent actions and model outputs during execution to detect unsafe, non-compliant, or anomalous behavior, enforcing constraints, blocking disallowed actions, or triggering escalation.
Observability Layer
End-to-end visibility into system behavior, collecting and correlating telemetry emitted by every other layer.
CCC.MARefArc.CP23 Cross-layer telemetry collection
Captures logs, traces, metrics, and events emitted by every layer to support debugging, auditability, distributed tracing, and operational monitoring across the request lifecycle.
CCC.MARefArc.CP24 Anomaly detection
Identifies unusual or unexpected patterns across telemetry to surface failures, regressions, misuse, or emerging risks before they impact performance or compliance.
CCC.MARefArc.CP25 Signal correlation
Correlates signals across logs, traces, metrics, and events into a unified view, connecting symptoms to root causes across cross-layer dependencies.