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Strabo: Declarative Specification and Implementation of Agentic Interaction Protocols

arXiv:2606. 05043v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The last few years have witnessed major advances in the modeling and implementation of multiagent systems based on declarative interaction protocols.

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Sep 2

A Formal Analysis of Agent Payment Protocols

The paper presents a formal analysis of four agent payment protocols—x402, MPP, ACP, and AP2—using the Tamarin prover. By modeling each protocol’s roles, state, and trust assumptions, the authors verify 86 cases, reproducing 46 known results and uncovering 40 new formal-consistency findings. They further validate ten findings through implementation proofs of concept, SDK/schema witnesses, and executable traces, highlighting the importance of consistent delegated authorization across all protocol stages.

By Ke Jiang, Mohan Yu, Yuan Chang, Mohit Kumar Jangid, Jianyu Niu, Cong Wang, Yinqian Zhang
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Jun 25

A Process Harness for Uplifting Legacy Workflows to Agentic BPM: Design and Realization in CUGA FLO

We introduce the process harness, a new mechanism for uplifting legacy workflows into Agentic Business Process Management (Agentic BPM) without replacing the underlying workflow engine. A process harness places a policy-governed agentic layer around a deterministic workflow engine, intercepting designated control points to contribute reasoning, adaptation, and oversight while the engine retains structural authority over the process.

arXiv AI
Sep 4

The Natural Language Interaction Protocol and Standard for AI Agents

The paper introduces the Natural Language Interaction Protocol (NLIP), a standards‑based application‑layer protocol designed to enable AI agents built on diverse frameworks and tools to communicate seamlessly. NLIP offers a lightweight semantic message envelope that can be transmitted over common transports such as HTTP/HTTPS, WebSocket, and AMQP, and includes mechanisms for adapting between clients, agents, local context stores, ontologies, tools, and enterprise services. The authors discuss the protocol’s design rationale, security considerations, reference implementation, representative applications, adoption signals, and its relationship to other emerging agent protocols like MCP and A2A.

By Luyi Xing, Rasit Onur Topaloglu, Ranjan Sinha, Abhay Ratnaparkhi, Samuel Ndichu, Christopher Nguyen, Anindita Das, Tom Sheffler, Mohamed Rahouti, Zichuan Li, Xiaojing Liao, Sanjay Aiyagari