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TOVIO,
in brief.

TOVIO is an open-core version control system for developers and AI agents, with cryptographic per-file permissions and stable change identity.

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The essentials.

Product
TOVIO
Category
Version control system
Founder
Dustin Williams
Model
Apache-2.0 core; commercial Forge
Website
tovio.dev

What’s different.
Why it matters.

TOVIO revisits the foundations of version control for teams where people and AI agents work together. These are the mechanisms behind that approach.

AI agents need their own authority.

TOVIO gives agents signed, expiring capability tokens with explicit path and operation scope. Agent-authorized work carries provenance. Available transcripts can add review context, with observed capture clearly labelled as unattested and self-reported.

Agent authorization and provenance

A repository can contain different read boundaries.

Policy-protected file content is encrypted during snapshot construction. Copies of those protected objects remain ciphertext for readers without entitled keys. Unprotected content, metadata, and authorized working copies have different boundaries.

The security model and its limits

A change is more than a commit hash.

A stable Change ID lets supported rewrites preserve the identity of the work. Conflicts are stored as typed objects, keeping the disagreement available for inspection and resolution. Native binary storage brings code and large assets into the same history without LFS.

How the version-control model works

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In one sentence

TOVIO is an open-core version control system for developers and AI agents, with cryptographic per-file permissions and stable change identity.

About TOVIO

TOVIO is an open-core version control system built for developers and AI agents working together. It combines cryptographic per-file permissions, scoped agent authorization, stable change identity, first-class conflict objects, and native binary storage. Its engine, CLI, SDKs, and specification are Apache-2.0; the Forge collaboration product is commercial. TOVIO was founded by Dustin Williams. Learn more at tovio.dev.

Founder background

Dustin Williams is the founder of TOVIO, an open-core version control system for developers and AI agents. His work on TOVIO focuses on explicit access boundaries, attributable agent work, and preserving the identity of a change as it evolves.

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