docs: align sibling-repo references with Agent Native Format - #177
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The sibling repo agent-contract-protocol is renamed to agent-native-format and reframed to lead with ANF, the token-minimal view format. Update DESIGN, MARKET-EVIDENCE, the README capability row, and the pitch script to match. Deliberately left as-is: - ROADMAP May 2026 entry (dated history). - clawd.acp.* OTel span attributes and the acp-cache Grafana dashboard (stable telemetry contract for the execution-contract manifest). - landing/ sub-app (own vercel.json + CI quality gate; has stale content to update separately). - naming-decision.md Concord recommendation (stale, never ratified). Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Sancheti <43677304+shreyanshjain7174@users.noreply.github.com>
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Pull request overview
Updates documentation across the repo to reflect the sibling repository rename/reframe from “agent-contract-protocol (ACP)” to “agent-native-format (ANF)”, positioning ANF as the token-minimal context format with an execution runtime component.
Changes:
- Reframes the core “context” capability language in README around Agent Native Format (ANF).
- Updates DESIGN and pitch narrative to describe ANF as the sibling repo and adjust terminology around benchmarks.
- Updates MARKET-EVIDENCE to point readers to the renamed sibling repo documentation path.
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| README.md | Rewords the “Context” capability row to describe ANF + governed execution runtime. |
| docs/PITCH-SCRIPT.md | Renames “ACP numbers” phrasing to “execution runtime numbers” in the slide script. |
| docs/MARKET-EVIDENCE.md | Updates the sibling repo path reference from agent-contract-protocol to agent-native-format. |
| docs/DESIGN.md | Renames the “ACP in one paragraph” section and updates repo-map + “working today” references to ANF. |
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| ## Agent Native Format in one paragraph | ||
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| Agent Contract Protocol is the same philosophy applied to tool calls. MCP answers what tools exist; ACP answers what execution is allowed for this agent right now. The server consumes MCP `tools/list` and returns a signed execution contract: scoped capabilities, identity binding, credential injection at the proxy (secrets never enter model context), declared ordering, egress and approval policy. Measured side effect: 64.7% to 97.4% fewer setup tokens and one round trip instead of up to 21, across five benchmark scenarios (see agent-contract-protocol/results). Separate repo, separate spec (v0.2 draft), feeds the same audit chain. | ||
| Agent Native Format (ANF) is the sibling repo. Its headline is a token-minimal view format. It translates system state into far fewer tokens for agents (see FORMAT.md). It also ships an execution runtime that applies the same governance philosophy to tool calls. MCP answers what tools exist. The runtime answers what execution is allowed for this agent right now. The server consumes MCP `tools/list` and returns a signed execution contract: scoped capabilities, identity binding, credential injection at the proxy (secrets never enter model context), declared ordering, egress and approval policy. Measured side effect: 64.7% to 97.4% fewer setup tokens and one round trip instead of up to 21, across five benchmark scenarios (see agent-native-format/results). Separate repo, separate spec, feeds the same audit chain. |
| ## Agent Native Format in one paragraph | ||
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| Agent Contract Protocol is the same philosophy applied to tool calls. MCP answers what tools exist; ACP answers what execution is allowed for this agent right now. The server consumes MCP `tools/list` and returns a signed execution contract: scoped capabilities, identity binding, credential injection at the proxy (secrets never enter model context), declared ordering, egress and approval policy. Measured side effect: 64.7% to 97.4% fewer setup tokens and one round trip instead of up to 21, across five benchmark scenarios (see agent-contract-protocol/results). Separate repo, separate spec (v0.2 draft), feeds the same audit chain. | ||
| Agent Native Format (ANF) is the sibling repo. Its headline is a token-minimal view format. It translates system state into far fewer tokens for agents (see FORMAT.md). It also ships an execution runtime that applies the same governance philosophy to tool calls. MCP answers what tools exist. The runtime answers what execution is allowed for this agent right now. The server consumes MCP `tools/list` and returns a signed execution contract: scoped capabilities, identity binding, credential injection at the proxy (secrets never enter model context), declared ordering, egress and approval policy. Measured side effect: 64.7% to 97.4% fewer setup tokens and one round trip instead of up to 21, across five benchmark scenarios (see agent-native-format/results). Separate repo, separate spec, feeds the same audit chain. |
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The sibling repo agent-contract-protocol is renamed to agent-native-format and reframed to lead with ANF, the token-minimal view format. Update DESIGN, MARKET-EVIDENCE, the README capability row, and the pitch script to match. Deliberately left as-is: - ROADMAP May 2026 entry (dated history). - clawd.acp.* OTel span attributes and the acp-cache Grafana dashboard (stable telemetry contract for the execution-contract manifest). - landing/ sub-app (own vercel.json + CI quality gate; has stale content to update separately). - naming-decision.md Concord recommendation (stale, never ratified). Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Sancheti <43677304+shreyanshjain7174@users.noreply.github.com>
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The sibling repo agent-contract-protocol is renamed to agent-native-format and reframed to lead with ANF, the token-minimal view format. See Clawdlinux/agent-native-format#22.
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