Community

The Agent Legal Context (ALC) protocol is an open specification under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Contributing

The specification is in draft status. We welcome contributions in the following areas:

• Protocol review -- Review the specification for technical accuracy, completeness, and clarity
• Integration patterns -- Propose or implement integration patterns for additional protocols
• Reference implementations -- Build reference implementations for the API gateway
• Test vectors -- Contribute test vectors for EIP-712 signing, hash verification, and API responses
• Security analysis -- Review the security considerations and identify additional threats or mitigations

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Resources

• Specification -- Agent Legal Context Protocol v1.0.0-draft
• Trust in Depth White Paper -- Fisher and McCormack, "Identity, Trust, and the Legal Foundations of Agentic Commerce" (2026)
• Agentic Dispute Resolution White Paper -- Design for AI agent participation in dispute resolution processes

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Code of Conduct

All contributors are expected to follow the project's code of conduct, which emphasizes respectful collaboration, constructive feedback, and inclusive participation.

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Changelog

v1.0.0-draft (March 2026)

• Initial draft specification
• Discovery standard (/.well-known/legal-context.json)
• API specification (8 endpoints)
• On-chain primitives (IntegraExistence, IntegraRecord, 6 resolver interfaces -- reference implementation names)
• Three acceptance tiers (implicit, explicit, negotiated)
• EIP-712 typed data schemas (TermsAcceptance, NegotiatedAgreement)
• Protocol integration patterns for MPP, ACP, UCP, x402, AP2, Visa TAP, A2A/MCP, Mastercard Agent Pay
• Security considerations
• Four-part adoption staircase

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License

Apache 2.0. The specification is open for anyone to implement.