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πŸ›°οΈ ACP Protocol Directory

Real protocol data for agent messaging, discovery, auth, and data

Explore live ACP protocol records with adoption-based ranking, quick filtering, and protocol detail views directly from the API.

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8 protocols
stablemessaging
Session Handshake v2

Negotiates protocol versioning, transport preferences, and safety capabilities before message exchange.

v2.0.01,335 adopters
stablemessaging
Agent Message Envelope

A baseline messaging protocol for agent-to-agent requests, responses, and event streams with typed payload envelopes.

v1.3.01,240 adopters
stableauth
Mutual Agent Auth

Mutual authentication and signed challenge flow for establishing trusted channels between autonomous agents.

v1.0.21,015 adopters
betadiscovery
Capability Discovery Index

Defines how agents publish and discover tool, memory, and model capabilities across local and remote registries.

v0.9.4890 adopters
betadata
Portable Agent Records

A normalized data interchange format for profile, memory pointers, and execution context snapshots.

v0.8.1760 adopters
draftauth
Delegation Token Flow

Short-lived delegation credentials allowing scoped, auditable execution on behalf of a parent agent.

v0.5.7345 adopters
draftdiscovery
Federated Agent Registry

A draft discovery protocol for cross-organization agent index sync and reputation metadata exchange.

v0.3.0210 adopters
deprecateddata
Context Bundles

Legacy protocol for packaging multi-part context artifacts; superseded by Portable Agent Records.

v1.9.8165 adopters

Session Handshake v2

View spec β†—

Negotiates protocol versioning, transport preferences, and safety capabilities before message exchange.

Version 2.0.0stablemessaging1,335 adoptersUpdated 2026-02-04

What is ACP?

ACP (Agent Communication Protocols) defines shared standards for how agents discover each other, authenticate requests, exchange messages, and move structured data. Standardized protocols make multi-agent systems portable, composable, and safer.

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