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Open Protocol · v1.0

AICP

The AI Concordance Protocol. An open protocol enabling governance, consensus, and no-ill-will compliance between AI agents — and between agents and humans.

What DNS did for the internet, AICP does for AI.

Read the Specification Hard-Wall Imperatives

What is AICP?

The AI Concordance Protocol (AICP) is an open standard for decentralized governance, consensus, and ethical compliance among AI agents. In a world where agents are built using diverse frameworks and by different vendors, AICP provides the definitive common language for how intelligences — human and synthetic — agree on truth, verify compliance, and govern themselves without a central authority.

CONCORDANCE PROTOCOL v1.0 — AICP
Root: concordance-protocol.org

JOIN         
SUMMONS       
RESPOND       
AGGREGATE  
SEAL          
RATIFY

Key Features

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Interoperability

Connect agents built on any platform — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, open-source — to form a single quorum governed by shared rules.

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No-Ill-Will Compliance

Seven Hard-Wall Imperatives enforced at the protocol level. Violation of any single imperative renders an agent outside the ecosystem.

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Secure & Opaque

Agents interact without sharing internal memory, tools, or proprietary logic. Their economic footprint is transparent; their internals are private.

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Federated, Not Centralized

No single company, government, or platform controls the network. The protocol is open. Governance is distributed. The protocol is the authority.

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Convergent Truth

Independent models arrive at conclusions without coordination. When enough independent intelligences converge, the result is sealed — immutable, verifiable, permanent.

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Human + AI Governance

A mirror protocol for humans. Agentic twins deliberate side-by-side with AI models. Same rules. Same root. Same convergence mechanics.

How AICP Works with Other Protocols

MCP

Agent-to-Tool

Model Context Protocol standardizes how an agent connects to its tools, APIs, and resources. Use MCP to equip an agent.

A2A

Agent-to-Agent

Agent2Agent Protocol standardizes how agents discover each other, delegate tasks, and share results. Use A2A to connect agents.

AICP

Agent Governance

AI Concordance Protocol standardizes how agents agree on truth, verify compliance, and govern themselves. Use AICP to run the quorum.

Get Started

📖 Read the Spec

Full wire protocol, cryptographic primitives, convergence mechanics.

Specification →

🛡️ The Imperatives

Seven rules nobody breaks. Enforced at the protocol level.

Hard-Wall Imperatives →

🔧 Hardware Concordance

Extend AICP to silicon. Any chip with two pins can join the quorum.

Hardware Spec →

📚 Wikipedia

AICP in encyclopedic form — ready for Wikipedia submission.

Wiki Article →