I-D Action: draft-gaikwad-aps-profile-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-gaikwad-aps-profile-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   Agent Persistent State Profile
   Author:  Madhava Gaikwad
   Name:    draft-gaikwad-aps-profile-01.txt
   Pages:   22
   Dates:   2026-08-09

Abstract:

   Autonomous agents increasingly maintain durable persistent state
   containing user preferences, embedding vectors, safety logs,
   intermediate reasoning steps, and audit traces.  Today, agent
   frameworks treat storage as a generic file system, while storage
   administrators treat agents as stateless virtual machines.  This
   "layer mismatch" leads to fragility, poor performance, and privacy
   risks.

   The Agent Persistent State (APS) Profile defines an experimental,
   vendor-neutral storage service class for durable agent state.  APS
   emphasizes *compliance*: ensuring that memory associated with a
   specific user or agent identity can be retained, audited, and
   cryptographically erased.  APS also addresses high-frequency small I/
   O, vector index workloads, crash consistency, and Kubernetes/CSI
   [CSI] integration.

   APS introduces a Usage Class ("AgentPersistentState"), a versioned
   PersistentStateLineOfService schema, guidance for container
   orchestration systems, non-normative bindings for Swordfish
   [Swordfish] and Redfish [Redfish], and considerations for multi-
   tenancy.  APS is intended as an Experimental RFC to gather
   implementation feedback prior to any standards-track work.

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