arXiv cs.AIMonday · May 25, 2026FREE

Foundation Protocol: A Coordination Layer for Agentic Society

The Foundation Protocol (FP), introduced in a paper on arXiv, addresses the coordination bottleneck as autonomous agents scale from tools to social infrastructure. FP is a graph-first coordination layer that unifies heterogeneous entities—agents, tools, resources, humans, institutions, and organizations—enabling native multi-party organization and event-based collaboration. It provides economic primitives for metering, receipts, and settlement, and treats policy, provenance, and audit as first-class concerns. Designed to wrap and bridge existing protocols rather than replace them, FP allows incremental adoption while reducing integration and governance overhead. The protocol aims to keep autonomous agency composable while ensuring accountability is non-negotiable. This approach supports an emerging AI economy where agents can form reliable relationships, organize multi-agent work, and exchange value under real-world oversight. The paper was published on arXiv on May 25, 2026, and is available at the provided URL.