diff --git a/paper/acp.md b/paper/acp.md index d86cdea..3d31bb4 100644 --- a/paper/acp.md +++ b/paper/acp.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# ACP: Intent-Resolved Execution Contracts for Autonomous Agent Tool Use +# Agent Native Format: Token-Efficient Execution Contracts for Autonomous Agent Tool Use **Shreyansh Sancheti** *Clawdlinux / NineVigil* @@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ Production agent systems built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) spend a large fraction of their context window on tool discovery and verbose JSON-Schema descriptors before performing any user task. -We introduce the **Agent Contract Protocol (ACP)**, a server-side layer -that sits on top of MCP and returns a single intent-scoped Execution -Manifest in one round trip with auth pre-injected, dependency order +We present the execution-contract layer of **Agent Native Format (ANF)**. +Named the Agent Contract Protocol (ACP), it is a server-side layer that +sits on top of MCP and returns a single intent-scoped Execution Manifest +in one round trip with auth pre-injected, dependency order pre-computed, and security boundaries declared. We evaluate ACP across four frontier models — Claude Opus 4.7, Claude diff --git a/paper/acp.tex b/paper/acp.tex index 7fca0e6..45ae637 100644 --- a/paper/acp.tex +++ b/paper/acp.tex @@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ showstringspaces=false, } -\title{ACP: Intent-Resolved Execution Contracts for Autonomous Agent Tool Use} +\title{Agent Native Format: Token-Efficient Execution Contracts for Autonomous Agent Tool Use} \author{Shreyansh Sancheti\\ - \texttt{007ssancheti@gmail.com}\\ - Clawdlinux / NineVigil} + \texttt{github.com/Clawdlinux}\\ + Clawdlinux} \date{May 2026} \begin{document} @@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ \begin{abstract} Production agent systems built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP) spend a large fraction of their context window on tool discovery and verbose -JSON-Schema descriptors before performing any user task. We introduce the -\textbf{Agent Contract Protocol (ACP)}, a server-side layer that sits on top +JSON-Schema descriptors before performing any user task. We present the +execution-contract layer of \textbf{Agent Native Format (ANF)}. Named the +Agent Contract Protocol (ACP), it is a server-side layer that sits on top of MCP and returns a single intent-scoped Execution Manifest in one round trip with auth pre-injected, dependency order pre-computed, and security boundaries declared. We evaluate ACP across four frontier models --- Claude