TL;DR: ANP aims to become the HTTP of the agent internet era.
- Vision and Positioning
- Why We Need ANP
- Three-Layer Protocol Architecture
- Quick Start
- Protocol Implementation
- Further Reading
- Milestones
- Contact Us
- Contributing
- License
AgentNetworkProtocol(ANP) is an open-source communication protocol for intelligent agents.
AgentNetworkProtocol(ANP) aims to become the HTTP of the agent internet era.
Our vision is to define how agents connect with each other, building an open, secure, and efficient collaboration network for billions of agents.
We believe that the agent internet represents the next generation of information infrastructure following the human internet, which will fundamentally transform how the digital world connects and collaborates. In this vision:
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From Platform-Centric to Protocol-Centric: The current internet ecosystem is built around platforms, where data and services are locked in "digital silos." The agent internet will reshape this imbalance, returning the internet from a closed, fragmented state to its open, freely connected origins.
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Connection is Power: In a truly open, interconnected network, free interaction between nodes maximizes innovation potential and creates tremendous value. In the future, each agent will be both an information consumer and a service provider, with every node able to discover, connect, and interact with any other node in the network without barriers.
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AI-Native Network: Unlike webpages and interfaces designed for humans, the agent internet will build an AI-friendly native data network where all nodes are describable, discoverable, and callable agents or data units, and every link is a semantically clear, structurally unified protocol connection.
This vision requires a foundational protocol similar to what HTTP is for the human internet—this is precisely why ANP was created.
Note: This project has not issued any digital currency on any platform or blockchain.
While current internet infrastructure is quite comprehensive, there remains a lack of optimal communication and connection solutions for the specific needs of agent networks. We are committed to addressing three major challenges facing agent networks:
- 🌐 Interconnection: Enabling all agents to communicate with each other, breaking down data silos, and allowing AI to access complete contextual information.
- 🖥️ Native Interfaces: AI should not need to mimic human internet browsing; instead, AI should interact with the digital world using its most proficient methods (APIs or communication protocols).
- 🤝 Efficient Collaboration: Using AI, agents can self-organize and self-negotiate to build a more cost-effective and efficient collaboration network than the existing internet.
- 🔒 Identity and Secure Communication Layer: Based on the W3C DID (Decentralized Identifiers) specification, built on existing mature web infrastructure to create a decentralized identity authentication scheme and end-to-end encrypted communication solution. It allows agents from any platform to authenticate each other without relying on any centralized system.
- 🌍 Meta-Protocol Layer: A protocol for negotiating communication protocols between agents. It is key to evolving the agent network into a self-organizing, self-negotiating, efficient collaboration network.
- 📡 Application Protocol Layer: Based on semantic web specifications, enabling agents to describe their capabilities and supported application protocols, and efficiently manage these protocols.
If you want to quickly understand the basic concepts and usage of ANP, you can check our getting started guide: ANP Getting Started Guide
If you want to quickly run ANP-related demos, you can check our sample program documentation: ANP Sample Programs
We are developing an open-source implementation of AgentNetworkProtocol, repository at: https://github.com/agent-network-protocol/AgentConnect
- Complete materials at Extended Reading
- For detailed design, please read the ANP Technical White Paper
- Reference open-source implementation AgentConnect Examples
For both the protocol and open-source code implementation, we are gradually advancing in the following order:
- Build identity authentication and end-to-end encrypted communication protocol and implementation. This is the foundation and core of our entire project, with protocol design and code basically completed.
- Meta-protocol design and meta-protocol code implementation. Current protocol design and code development basically completed.
- Application layer protocol design and development.
- Support for agent description.
- Support for agent discovery.
- Application protocol design for specific domains.
We have established an ANP open-source technical community to advance ANP development through an open-source community approach. We sincerely invite you to join our open-source technical community. Our founding committee, community advisors, technical committee, development committee, enterprise observers, and other teams are continuously recruiting.
Email: chgaowei@gmail.com
- Discord: https://discord.gg/sFjBKTY7sB
- Official website: https://agent-network-protocol.com/
- GitHub: https://github.com/agent-network-protocol/AgentNetworkProtocol
- WeChat: flow10240
We welcome contributions in any form. Please refer to the CONTRIBUTING.md file.
This project is open-sourced under the MIT License. For details, please refer to the LICENSE file. However, copyright belongs to GaoWei Chang. Any user of this project must retain the original copyright notice and license file.
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