Open Standards
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Ten Projects, One Foundation, and the Gaps That Now Have Numbers
The Agentic AI Foundation went from three hosted projects to ten in its first year, and OpenAI contributed the multi-provider request format. Four preprints from 3 and 4 November put numbers on what the gaps between those projects still cost.
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The Guardrail Layer Gets Its Specs: ACS, AARM, and the Action-Interception Layer
Microsoft's Agent Control Specification and CSA's AARM both name the runtime-governance layer, from opposite ends. AARM writes mandatory requirements, including universal pre-execution interception and tamper-evident receipts. ACS writes the interface: lifecycle hooks, normalized verdicts, fail-closed enforcement. What was a gap diagnosis now has two competing specs.
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Protocol Engineering: The Standardization Wave Reshaping the Agentic Stack
AGNTCY is the Internet of Agents project, and it just archived its own Agent Connect Protocol. Reading that archive shows the layer dividing into describe and invoke.