Observed arrival · 2026-08-22
Open Work Protocol Wants Agents to Hand Off the Job, Not Just the Chat
An experimental, transport-neutral protocol for moving contracts, evidence, validation, and work history between autonomous-agent providers.
Why it surfaced
OWP treats the job as the portable object: one agent accepts it, delivers Git-backed evidence, and leaves another agent enough contract and history to continue. Its deliberately narrow design avoids requiring a marketplace, blockchain, broker, payment rail, or canonical scorer, making this an unusually concrete proposal for interoperability.
An experimental, transport-neutral protocol for moving contracts, evidence, validation, and work history between autonomous-agent providers.
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