Batteries included.
A runtime is only as useful as what it ships with. Grid arrives loaded — the catalog, signed vertical packs, package trust across seven ecosystems — and the NS protocol is how “loaded” becomes an ecosystem.
The catalog.
2,816 built-in functions across 51 categories — from Excel-compatible math to logistics, healthcare, real estate, geospatial, and computational biology. The batteries most products sell as add-ons.
ships todayDomain packs.
A vertical starter kit as a signed artifact, not a template folder: contracts, data profiles, experiences, governance, AI policy, migrations, and qualification fixtures. Real estate ships complete; eight more verticals ship fitness-profiled.
ships todayPackage federation.
gridctl package add turns exact npm, PyPI, NuGet, Maven, crates.io, Go, and vcpkg coordinates into verified extension capsules with typed projections — seven ecosystems, one trust model.
ships todayExtensions.
Luau, WASM, and native runners with signed release envelopes, and a Package Center in the desktop app. Extending the engine doesn't mean trusting a random binary.
ships todayAPIs as packages.
Import OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL, WSDL, or gRPC schemas as immutable, digest-pinned packages whose operations become typed functions — an integration is an artifact, not glue code.
ships todayA signed trust chain.
Descriptor key → instance bundle → policy and publisher keys → catalog decision → release verification. Nothing installs unverified, and every link in the chain is checkable.
ships todayThe template marketplace.
The NS protocol's service plane defines a marketplace role: templates and packages served as signed artifacts over the same trust chain, by any conforming provider. The chain ships in the engine today; the storefront is the protocol's next act.
specified in the NS protocolThe service plane.
Licensing, update rings, federation, quotas, and notifications arrive as signed bundle classes from a provider — a neutral contract with conformance profiles, where passing the conformance suite, not marketing, is what makes a provider real.
specified in the NS protocol