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IntentFrame, a typed contract for agent delegation
An open draft specification for passing agent-to-agent requests as typed JSON contracts instead of prose prompts.
Why it surfacedIntentFrame separates the objective from constraints, tool permissions, and acceptance criteria so a runtime can reject unsafe or costly work before calling a model. Its six-consumer design, Python library, and explicit comparison with A2A make this more than another vague agent framework.
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Ice Does Not Count
August 12’s newborn domains include a rule-bound archive of enormous sodas, 27 family stories cut from one afternoon, a disaster-supply map with a 24-hour freshness rule, and an ocean bell that rings only when six conditions agree.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.