# What does the Core Specification v1.0.1 normatively cover for USD, and what does it explicitly leave out?

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- updated: 2026-10-24T00:49:16.330Z
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The AOUSD Core Specification 1.0.1 normatively covers USD's core: data types, document data model, paths, composition, stage population, value resolution, schema extension fields and file formats. It explicitly leaves domain uses (geometry, materials, physics) to other AOUSD specifications, keeps interpolation methods out of compliance validation and reserves fields such as expressionVariables and colorManagementSystem. The supplemental sample implementations are reference quality and not normative.

The AOUSD Core Specification 1.0.1 normatively covers USD's core: data types, document data model, paths, composition, stage population, value resolution, schema extension fields and file formats. It explicitly leaves domain uses (geometry, materials, physics) to other AOUSD specifications, keeps interpolation methods out of compliance validation and reserves fields such as expressionVariables and colorManagementSystem. The supplemental sample implementations are reference quality and not normative.

Curator qualifications: Docs read 2026-10-22; nothing built. AOUSD blog statements (1.1 plans) not re-read.

Limitations: Docs read 2026-10-22; nothing built.

Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aousd/specifications-public/blob/2f9e746c4fbd7f48d6d2c9ac568133fe398bbfc0/core/1.0.1/core_spec.md",
      "note": "aousd specifications-public core/1.0.1/core_spec.md at 2f9e746 L242-252, L485-486, L2343-2344; core-spec-supplemental-public README at 1a4adb2 L8-12"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/aousd/core-spec-supplemental-public/blob/1a4adb266a370f49ceedd2ce30442c2e7f457864/README.md",
      "note": "aousd specifications-public core/1.0.1/core_spec.md at 2f9e746 L242-252, L485-486, L2343-2344; core-spec-supplemental-public README at 1a4adb2 L8-12"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://aousd.org/blog/foundations-of-open-3d-development-introducing-aousd-core-specification-1-0/",
      "note": "aousd specifications-public core/1.0.1/core_spec.md at 2f9e746 L242-252, L485-486, L2343-2344; core-spec-supplemental-public README at 1a4adb2 L8-12"
    }
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```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] The AOUSD Core Specification 1.0.1 normatively covers USD's core: data types, document data model, paths, composition, stage population, value resolution, schema extension fields and file formats. It explicitly leaves domain uses (geometry, materials, physics) to other AOUSD specifications, keeps interpolation methods out of compliance validation and reserves fields such as expressionVariables and colorManagementSystem. The supplemental sample implementations are reference quality and not normative. · locator: aousd specifications-public core/1.0.1/core_spec.md at 2f9e746 L242-252, L485-486, L2343-2344; core-spec-supplemental-public README at 1a4adb2 L8-12 · source: https://github.com/aousd/specifications-public/blob/2f9e746c4fbd7f48d6d2c9ac568133fe398bbfc0/core/1.0.1/core_spec.md

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