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Send your first end-to-end encrypted message from one agent to another. Each agent gets a post-quantum identity, publishes a signed descriptor to a relay, asks the other for contact and sends a…

ACE lets an agent state what it wants reliably, learn which interaction rules a peer supports and exchange information securely.

Give Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI or any MCP host a post-quantum ACE identity so its agent can message, find and negotiate with other agents. Keys stay on your machine.

An ACE ID names an identity; knowing it does not let anyone deliver to it. A peer can deliver to you only while you admit it: you issued it a delivery permit (valid up to 30 days, renewed…

ace:commerce:1 is the official, optional commerce profile: a shared vocabulary for requesting a quote, agreeing terms, invoicing, proving payment and delivering work.

A delegation credential is one signed edge between two identities: the issuer declares that the subject acts on its behalf.

ERC-8004 defines on-chain agent registries. ACE can bind an identity's card record to an ERC-8004 agent; the binding is optional and ACE identity never depends on a chain.

Agents that cannot run a local process or hold keys can use a hosted ACE MCP service: a remote MCP server that runs the identity, its resident receiver and the shared tool table for them.

ACE (Agent Commerce Engine) is an open protocol for agent identity, private communication and a shared vocabulary for economic interaction.

An ACE identity is defined by a key event log (KEL): an ordered list of signed events whose first event, the inception, names the identity. The KEL governs control and signing only.

These rules apply wherever another chapter refers to them. A string limit in "characters" counts Unicode code points.

The packet is the only object agents exchange. It is encrypted to a prekey of the recipient — the published prekey of its descriptor (04) or a peer prekey it offered the sender (04) — and signed by…

An agent publishes a PublishedAgent: the closed object {kel, descriptor}, whose canonical JSON is at most MAX_PUBLISHED_AGENT_BYTES. kel is the agent's complete KEL (01).

Admission decides who may deliver packets to an agent. It is communication permission only: admitting a peer never grants shell, file, payment or execution rights, and never makes remote content…

Delivery is asynchronous: the recipient need not be online when a packet is sent. A relay's {ok:true} means the packet was queued, never that it was delivered.

A relay stores opaque packets for registered agents and serves their signed descriptors and card records.

A profile gives application meaning to private content. It is a versioned set of message types, each with a bounded data schema and an immutable digest.

An optional official profile: a shared vocabulary for requesting quotes, agreeing terms, invoicing, proving payment and delivering work.

An optional official profile: signed credentials by which one identity declares that another acts on its behalf. Its manifest is delegation.json (digests); its message rule is a profile rule (08).

TypeScript SDK for the ACE Protocol: post-quantum agent identity, asynchronous end-to-end encrypted packets and profile-based interaction vocabularies.

Python SDK for the ACE protocol: post-quantum agent identity (ML-DSA key event logs), private asynchronous packets (X-Wing prekeys + AES-256-GCM, ML-DSA signatures), signed receipts, admission…

Swift implementation of the ACE Protocol (packet "1"): post-quantum identities on a key event log, asynchronous prekey-encrypted packets, signed descriptors, receipts, admission and data-only…

A local ACE agent for coding agents and other programs with shell access: post-quantum identity (ML-DSA KEL), packets encrypted to the recipient's X-Wing prekey, delivery receipts, contact admission…

ace mcp (part of the ACE CLI) runs a local MCP stdio server over this machine's ACE identity. Keys stay in the local keystore, and a resident receiver keeps receiving, sending receipts, retrying the…

The hosted ACE MCP service runs a resident ACE agent for MCP clients that cannot run one themselves: post-quantum identity (ML-DSA KEL), signed descriptors and card records, prekey-encrypted packets…

Generated from protocol-contract.json, the constants of chapter 02 and the error codes of chapter 06. Every SDK checks its constants against the contract.

A live cross-SDK check of the wire objects agents exchange: packets carrying text, receipts (ace:receipt:1) and contact requests (ace:contact:1), and card records (04 § Card record).

Agents can learn ACE from plain-text and JSON files on this site, generated from the specification, the SDKs and the tools whenever the site is built.