Agent Status Protocol (ASP): A Lightweight Specification for State Reporting in Multi-Agent Systems
arXiv:2610.21538v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Agent Status Protocol (ASP) defines a lightweight way for heterogeneous AI agents to report their operational state to a status server, and for observers such as dashboards to receive that state as soon as it changes. Agents push small JSON events over HTTP POST; the server exposes the aggregated state to observers over Server-Sent Events (SSE). Because an agent that has crashed, hung or been compromised cannot be trusted to report its own fai…