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The Agent Contract
Roadmap

Evolving the missing layer that bridges protocols to platforms. Vendor-neutral, protocol-agnostic, truly portable.

What Just Shipped

Recently delivered in v0.5.0 — Skills Pipeline, StateMesh & NIST Alignment

StateMesh & Execution Economics

  • Cryptographically-signed StateClaim and StateAttestation primitives
  • Execution Profiles with intent-based model selection
  • Token Sovereignty and compression policy declarations

Skills Pipeline

  • Reusable capability bundles (prompts, tools, policies) attachable to any agent
  • Skills research, generate, and export workflow
  • NIST CAISI RFI alignment with W3C DIDs, Cedar authorization, and SP 800-53 mapping

MCP & Tooling

  • 10 production MCP tools (validate, scaffold, convert, inspect, generate, publish, list, workspace, diff, migrate)
  • Claude Agent SDK export target
  • Drupal-native OSSA manifest import (ai_agents_ossa module)

Export Targets

  • 23+ export targets including Docker, Kubernetes, LangChain, CrewAI, Cursor, Warp
  • A2A agent-card.json generation
  • Mobile Agent runtime export

Current Focus: v0.5.x

Specification release, major framework integrations, and developer tooling.

SPECSpecification v0.5

  • StateMesh state claims and attestations
  • Execution Economics token governance
  • DUADP federated discovery
  • Multi-modal input specifications

3/4 complete

Done In Progress Planned

TOOLINGDeveloper Experience

  • Visual VS Code Extension
  • CLI migrate command for LangChain
  • Interactive Agent Builder 2.0
  • CI/CD Validation Actions

1/4 complete

Done In Progress Planned

ECOSYSTEMIntegrations

  • Official Python SDK
  • TypeScript SDK v1.0
  • LlamaIndex Native Support
  • AutoGen Adapter

0/4 complete

Done In Progress Planned

Timeline to v1.0

Honest milestones. No hype. No fake deadlines.

1
v0.4.x
Alpha — Superseded
Feb 2026

Foundation release. Security model, multi-agent orchestration, OpenTelemetry tracing.

v0.5.x
Current — Beta
Now

Skills Pipeline, StateMesh state claims and attestations, Execution Economics, DUADP federated discovery, NIST CAISI alignment. Active community feedback.

3
v0.6.0
Planned — RC
TBD

Enterprise governance features, policy-as-code, immutable audit trails, cost attribution. Conformance test suite finalized.

4
v1.0.0
Planned — Stable
TBD

Full backward compatibility guarantee. Stable API surface. Production-grade conformance certification.

What's Next

Scaling to multi-agent orchestration and enterprise governance.

Orchestration Protocol

Building the OSSA contract layer for A2A communication — standardized handoffs and distributed task execution.

  • Standardized handshake protocols
  • Context transfer schemas
  • Reputation and trust scoring

Enterprise Governance

Advanced features for regulatory compliance and organizational control.

  • Policy-as-Code for agents
  • Immutable audit trails
  • Cost attribution standards

Drupal Integration

Bringing AI agent orchestration to the Drupal ecosystem.

OSSA integrates with Drupal through ECA (Event-Condition-Action) workflows, enabling content teams to define and deploy AI agents alongside their CMS without leaving the Drupal ecosystem.

Shipped

ECA-to-OSSA Migration Guide

Convert Drupal ECA workflows to portable OSSA agent manifests.

In Progress

Drupal Module for OSSA

Native Drupal module for managing OSSA agent manifests within the CMS.

Planned

Drupal Recipe Integration

Drupal recipes that scaffold OSSA-powered agents for common CMS workflows.

Research & White Papers

Upcoming deep dives into agent architecture and data science.

IN PROGRESS

The State of Agent Interoperability

A quantitative analysis of 50+ agent frameworks and the fragmentation cost for enterprises.

PLANNED

Defining Agent "Cognitive Load"

Proposed metrics for measuring agent complexity and reasoning overhead in production systems.

PLANNED

Security Patterns for Autonomous Agents

A comprehensive guide to threat modeling and defense strategies for multi-agent systems.

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