RFC-011: Agentic Context Protocol (ACP) — 1. Purpose
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RFC-011: Agentic Context Protocol (ACP)
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1. Purpose
The Agentic Context Protocol (ACP) defines a standardized protocol for assembling, delivering, and consuming execution context across distributed AI-powered applications. ACP is the mechanism through which agents acquire agency not through autonomous decision-making, but through structured, governed context.
Without context, an agent has no agency.
ACP SHALL ensure:
- agents receive only the context they are authorized to consume
- context is assembled from distributed sources in a deterministic, auditable way
- context is structured, versioned, and schema-validated
- context assembly is itself governed by AIGP (every context fetch is an auditable operation)
- context is used for both execution (running operations) and manufacturing (generating scripts, configs, policies)