Agent Status Protocol (ASP): A Lightweight Specification for State Reporting in Multi-Agent Systems
Read the original on arXiv AI →The Agent Status Protocol (ASP) is a lightweight specification that enables heterogeneous AI agents to report their operational state to a status server via small JSON events over HTTP POST. The server aggregates these reports and exposes the combined state to observers through Server‑Sent Events (SSE), inferring liveness from missed heartbeats and incorporating observations from supervisors, guardrails, operators, and peers. ASP models state across independent dimensions—lifecycle, health, task, floor, governance—allowing an agent to simultaneously be online, degraded, working on a task, and waiting for the floor, while reusing existing vocabularies from A2A, OFP, and OpenTelemetry GenAI conventions.
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