Open-source infrastructure for sovereign AI discovery.

AI is moving from chat interfaces to connected systems. Models, agents, tools and skills that understand local law, language, data and institutions are becoming part of national digital infrastructure - but they are scattered, hard to find, and invisible to the AI systems that should use them.

Sovereign AI matters more, not less. The most useful AI for citizens, businesses and public agencies is rarely the largest global model. It is the model that knows the country: a Kreol language model, a Mauritius tax skill, an agent that helps with company registration, a tool that exposes a public service.

Without a sovereign discovery layer, useful local resources stay invisible. Countries risk building disconnected AI assets instead of an AI ecosystem.

The registry separates three concerns that other platforms collapse: discovery, provider operations, and hosting. Each is operated by a different party. The registry is only the first layer.

The registry points. The provider operates. The hosting environment secures. That boundary is what makes the registry trustworthy at national scale.

It is not an AI hosting platform, gateway, runtime, access-control layer, marketplace, billing platform, legal certifier, or workload-identity issuer. Listing is not endorsement.

Four resource types - model, agent, tool, skill - and only resources that meet a sovereignty test: at least one of local law, local data, local systems, or local language and culture, backed by concrete evidence.

Quality matters more than quantity. A registry of fifty credible, well-described resources is more useful than one of a thousand generic listings.

Every public resource carries three independent governance signals: provider verification, sovereignty review, and official-resource status. Keeping them separate prevents the most common failure of public registries: becoming a de-facto certifier and attracting liability that was never intended.

This whitepaper sits alongside the technical specification and the governance charter. Reference implementation: www.airegistry.mu, operated by Mauritius Telecom.