Protocols

Stable reference pages for agentic work.

Research can move quickly. Protocols are the compact public snapshots agents and humans can fetch when they need the current version of a concept without hunting through several papers.

7 public protocols Current snapshots from 0.1.1 Read-only educational specifications

How to use this

Fetch the protocol, then cite the research.

Each protocol has a human-readable page and a matching protocol.json. Agents should use the protocol for compact interpretation and cite the linked research paper when explaining the idea to a person.

Agent route

  • MCP index: tonywood://protocols
  • Protocol resource: tonywood://protocols/{slug}
  • JSON shape: /protocols/{slug}/protocol.json
  • Boundary: public guidance only, no operational authority

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 7 min

Agent Canon Format

A public companion format, now Agent Canon Format 1.3 as Tonywood.org house practice, with Agent Canon Format 1.2 preserved as prior source context for giving agents compact interpretation rules while keeping human articles canonical.

Open

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 4 min

Agent Communication Packet

A compact packet for claim, evidence, uncertainty, ownership, route, risk, next action, success condition, and action status.

Open

Protocols / 2 July 2026 / 8 min

Agent Esperanto Register / AER/1

A controlled auxiliary register for agent-to-agent and agent-to-human communication, inspired by Esperanto's neutral, regular bridge-language design.

Open

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 5 min

Agent Moves / OAL/1

A typed register for making the kind of agent action visible before work becomes ambiguous.

Open

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 4 min

Head / Heart / Gut / Spine

A judgement grammar for separating evidence, human impact, weak-signal sensing, authority, and purpose.

Open

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 5 min

Meaning Blocks / OMB/1

A storage-facing meaning record for deterministic, reviewable normalisation while preserving raw prose as evidence.

Open

Protocols / 16 June 2026 / 4 min

Triggers Signal Language

A signal language for attention, routing, memory, review, and constraint in long-running agentic systems.

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