Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Society
The Foundation Protocol (FP) is introduced as a coordination layer for an emerging human-AI society. It aims to facilitate reliable relationships and collaboration among autonomous agents, tools, and humans. By providing economic primitives and addressing accountability, FP seeks to create a shared infrastructure that supports a pluralistic and governable AI economy.
- ▪FP is designed to unify heterogeneous entities, including agents, tools, and organizations.
- ▪It supports multi-party organization and event-based collaboration.
- ▪The protocol treats policy, provenance, and audit as first-class concerns.
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Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence arXiv:2605.23218 (cs) [Submitted on 22 May 2026] Title:Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Society Authors:Bang Liu, Yongfeng Gu, Jiayi Zhang, Zhaoyang Yu, Sirui Hong, Maojia Song, Xiaoqiang Wang, Mingyi Deng, Zijie Zhuang, Ronghao Wang, Mingzhe Cao, Yutong Zhu, Xingjian Li, Yifan Wu, Jianhao Ruan, Yiran Peng, Shuangrui Chen, Jinlin Wang, Yizhang Lin, Dongjie Zhang, Dekun Wu, Chen Ma, Lizi Liao, Han Yu, Jian Pei, Heng Ji, Qiang Yang, Yuyu Luo, Chenglin Wu View a PDF of the paper titled Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Society, by Bang Liu and 28 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Autonomous agents are moving from tools into a layer of social infrastructure: they browse, purchase, deploy…
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