I-D Action: draft-wolfe-faf-agent-01.txt

Internet-Draft draft-wolfe-faf-agent-01.txt is now available.

   Title:   FAFA: A Declarative Agent Capability Format
   Author:  James Wolfe
   Name:    draft-wolfe-faf-agent-01.txt
   Pages:   15
   Dates:   2026-08-16

Abstract:

   This document specifies the FAF Agent Format (.fafa): a declarative,
   YAML-based format for an agent's identity, the capabilities it
   exposes, and the endpoints through which it is reached.  A .fafa
   document describes an agent; it never instructs one.

   .fafa (application/vnd.fafa+yaml, IANA-registered June 2026 in the
   vendor tree) is the agent member of the FAF family, alongside .faf
   (project context) and .fafm (agent memory).  It functions as a
   portable passport that answers four questions: who the agent is, what
   it may do, where it is reached, and what it must never do.  Protocol-
   native cards (for example A2A Agent Cards and MCP Server Cards)
   remain useful wire formats; repository instruction files such as
   AGENTS.md remain the ops briefing; .fafa complements them as a house-
   neutral source of truth that can be projected into those formats; it
   does not replace them.

   This document documents the existing IANA vendor-tree registration.
   No standards-tree registration is requested.  A companion white
   paper, "Why Agents Need a Passport," provides the production
   rationale and lifecycle framing.

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