A v3 descriptor and the image manifest that carries it Left: the nine top-level entries of the kit.yaml of the hello kit, from the syntax line to the capabilities list, each with a note on what it becomes. Right: what the local registry returned for m101/hello-kit:v1, an OCI image index with no annotations and the linux/arm64 image manifest. The manifest carries four vnd.docker.sandbox.kit annotations, the descriptor as JSON with 402 derived deb provides, schema-version 3, the network-policy@2 capability, and built-by sandbox-kit 3.0.0-m.8, plus four org.opencontainers.image keys, the OCI config, and 16 layers with the sources staged at /usr/share/sandbox/kit/kit. Teal lines connect each descriptor row to the annotation or layer it becomes. KIT.YAML OF HELLO-KIT, AS WRITTEN WHAT THE REGISTRY RETURNED hello-kit/kit.yaml # syntax=docker/sandbox-kit:3 dispatches the frontend, sandbox-kit 3.0.0-m.8 schemaVersion: "3" REQUIRED, exactly the string "3" (kitspec 4) kind: workload workload, mixin, or set (kitspec 4) displayName: hello-kit becomes org.opencontainers.image.title description: A shell workload with one network grant, in the v3 descriptor form. becomes org.opencontainers.image.description version: "1.0.0" becomes org.opencontainers.image.version licenses: [Apache-2.0] becomes org.opencontainers.image.licenses build: | FROM docker/sandbox-templates:shell COPY HELLO.md /home/agent/HELLO.md the recipe of the layers (kitspec 3.2) capabilities: - type: com.docker.sandbox/network-policy@2 config: runtime: allow: - example.com a list of type and config (kitspec 7) OCI image index, tag v1 application/vnd.oci.image.index.v1+json linux/arm64 and an attestation manifest annotations: none platform manifest, linux/arm64 application/vnd.oci.image.manifest.v1+json annotations vnd.docker.sandbox.kit.descriptor kit.yaml as JSON, plus 402 deb/ provides vnd.docker.sandbox.kit.schema-version "3" vnd.docker.sandbox.kit.capabilities com.docker.sandbox/network-policy@2 vnd.docker.sandbox.kit.built-by docker/sandbox-kit 3.0.0-m.8, 129be2ff org.opencontainers.image.* title hello-kit, version 1.0.0, licenses Apache-2.0, description config application/vnd.oci.image.config.v1+json 16 layers shell template, HELLO.md, and sources staged at /usr/share/sandbox/kit/kit docker buildx build -f fixtures/kits/hello-kit/kit.yaml --builder m101-builder -t m101-registry:5000/m101/hello-kit:v1 --push fixtures/kits/hello-kit With the default docker driver, the same push kept no annotation (28-manifest-docker-driver.json). The index carries none of the eight, although kitspec 9.3 promotes them there (28-index.json).