This document outlines the public roadmap for AgentNet.
AgentNet is a standards-driven, federated architecture, not a single product or platform. Accordingly, this roadmap focuses on standards maturity, ecosystem readiness, and reference infrastructure rather than feature velocity.
Dates are indicative. Progress is measured by stability, interoperability, and adoption, not speed.
The AgentNet roadmap is guided by the following principles:
- Standards before scale
- Interoperability over optimization
- Federation over centralization
- Transparency over acceleration
- Durability over novelty
AgentNet will evolve deliberately to avoid fragmentation or premature lock-in.
Status: ✅ Complete
This phase established the core conceptual and normative foundation.
- ANS Core v2.0 finalized and published
- Core terminology and architecture stabilized
- Governance framework defined
- Reference resolver implemented and validated
- Capsule structure and provenance model verified
- Initial documentation and examples published
This phase establishes AgentNet as a credible, reviewable standard.
Status: 🟡 In Progress
Focus: making AgentNet understandable, testable, and adoptable by early stakeholders.
- Improve onboarding clarity for developers and architects
- Reduce ambiguity in implementation interpretation
- Enable controlled experimentation without standard drift
- Expanded documentation (
docs/) - Additional example Capsules and workflows
- Reference validation tooling
- Resolver behavior clarifications (non-normative)
- Contributor onboarding refinement
- Public discussions and feedback channels
This phase prioritizes clarity over coverage.
Status: ⏳ Planned
Focus: enabling multiple independent actors to participate without coordination bottlenecks.
- Demonstrate multi-party federation
- Encourage independent implementations
- Validate resolver interoperability
- Additional reference implementations
- Cross-resolver compatibility testing
- Registry and namespace stewardship guidance
- Extension patterns and optional capabilities
- Formalized RFC workflow for standards evolution
This phase validates that AgentNet functions as a network, not a silo.
Status: ⏳ Planned
Focus: enabling production use by enterprises, platforms, and institutions.
- Reduce adoption risk
- Increase predictability and trust
- Support long-term maintenance
- Stability guarantees and versioning policy refinements
- Conformance and compliance guidance
- Security and threat modeling documentation
- Operational best practices (non-normative)
- Long-term governance seat population (if appropriate)
This phase emphasizes reliability and longevity.
Status: ⏳ Future
Focus: sustainable stewardship of the AgentNet Standards.
- Ensure neutrality and non-capture
- Support multi-stakeholder governance
- Enable responsible evolution of ANS
- Formal steward appointment process
- Periodic standards review cadence
- Extension registries (if required)
- Alignment with adjacent standards bodies
- Long-term archival and provenance guarantees
This phase ensures AgentNet remains viable decades, not quarters.
The following are explicitly out of scope for the AgentNet roadmap:
- Operating a centralized resolver monopoly
- Mandating specific vendors or implementations
- Enforcing commercial terms or pricing
- Acting as a data broker or marketplace
- Replacing existing web standards
AgentNet is an enabling layer, not a gatekeeper.
Progress is measured by:
- Independent implementations
- Cross-party interoperability
- Clarity and precision of the standards
- Adoption without coercion
- Stability across versions
Adoption without trust is failure.
Trust without adoption is stagnation.
AgentNet aims for both.
This roadmap is intentionally conservative.
AgentNet’s success depends not on rapid expansion, but on becoming boringly reliable infrastructure for machine-readable truth.