Welcome to OSSA
Today marks the official launch of the Open Standard Agents (OSSA) initiative. We are building the formal specification layer for the agentic web.
The Mission
Our mission is simple: To make AI agents as portable and interoperable as REST APIs.
For too long, agent development has been trapped in framework-specific silos. OSSA provides the Declarative Contract that allows an agent to exist independently of the code that runs it.
What We Shipped
We are launching with the v0.3.x Specification, which includes:
- Formal JSON Schemas: Validatable contracts for Agents, Tools, and Workflows.
- TypeScript SDK: A production-ready engine for loading and validating manifests.
- CLI Tooling:
ossa validateandossa generatecommands to speed up your workflow. - Framework Bridges: Native adapters for LangChain, CrewAI, and Anthropic MCP.
Join the Engineering Track
OSSA is a community-first project. We aren't just writing docs; we're building the infrastructure for the next decade of automation.
- Audit the Code: Check out the openstandardagents repository.
- Try the Tutorial: Build your first agent in 25 minutes with our Getting Started guide.
- Discuss Architecture: Join our Discord to help shape the v0.4.0 roadmap.
Standardize once. Deploy everywhere.
Technical Foundations:
- OSSA v0.3.6 Specification Reference.
- Apache License 2.0: Our commitment to open source.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): Our tool-layer foundation.