ACC DOCUMENTATION

Put ACC into practice.

ACC is an open, implementation-neutral declaration contract for marking which operations in existing business APIs may be exposed to agents, together with portable governance metadata. ACC controls reach; the business system controls authority.

All documents

• ACC Overview | Agent Capability Contract

  Overview of Agent Capability Contract, an open A2B declaration contract for agent-visible operations in existing business APIs.

• ACC OpenAPI Quickstart | Agent Capability Contract

  Add ACC to an existing OpenAPI service, validate declarations, and understand the authoring tool boundary in five minutes.

• ACC v1 Specification | Agent Capability Contract

  Normative ACC v1 fields, runtime requirements, approval semantics, safety boundaries, and versioning rules.

• ACC Concepts | Agent Capability Contract

  Core ACC concepts for A2B systems, including reach, authority, acting subjects, governance metadata, and runtime boundaries.

• ACC in the Agent Governance Landscape

  An implementation-neutral map of ACC, OpenAPI, MCP, A2A, runtime control specifications, policy engines, secure gateways, workflows, and business authorization.

• ACC Design Rationale and Boundaries

  Why ACC keeps a small implementation-neutral core and which concerns belong to runtime policy, business authorization, workflow, and compliance layers.

• ACC Implementer Guide | Agent Capability Contract

  Implementation-neutral guidance for parsers, generators, runtimes, policy components, conformance evidence, and safe A2B control planes.

• ACC Safety Governance Responsibilities

  Non-normative guidance on the responsibilities of ACC, runtimes, business systems, and deployers, with evidence to review for each layer.

• ACC Catalog and Inventory Examples

  A non-normative catalog and inventory example for reviewing operation risk, approvals, task limits, and recovery assumptions.

• ACC Governance | Agent Capability Contract

  Public governance, stewardship, versioning, proposal review, and implementation-neutral maintenance rules for ACC.

• Contributing to Agent Capability Contract

  How to propose changes, improve documentation, add conformance evidence, and contribute to the open ACC standard.

• ACC Implementation Registry

  Neutral registry of Agent Capability Contract implementations and their public self-assessment evidence.

• ACC Binding Requirements

  Common normative requirements for carrying ACC Core declarations across protocol-specific bindings.

• ACC OpenAPI Binding

  The ACC OpenAPI extension binding for declaring agent-visible business operations beside existing API contracts.

• ACC Conformance Overview

  ACC conformance responsibilities, evidence expectations, and machine-readable reference vectors.

• ACC Conformance Profiles

  Parser, Generator, Runtime, and Policy Component profiles for precise ACC compatibility claims.

• ACC Self-Assessment and Registration

  Public evidence and self-assessment process for registering an ACC implementation without implying certification.

• ACC v1 Machine-Readable Conformance Vectors

  Reference inputs and abstract expected outcomes for reproducible ACC v1 implementation evidence.

• ACC v1 Coverage and Implementation Evidence

  A non-normative index of the 26 ACC v1 reference vectors, their limits, and the separate evidence needed to assess an implementation.

• ACC Proposal Process

  Open proposal states, evidence requirements, review criteria, and compatibility rules for evolving ACC.

• ACC Draft Proposal: Agent-Facing Capability Deprecation

  A draft ACC proposal for portable agent-facing deprecation metadata; it is not part of released ACC v1.

• ACC Changelog | Agent Capability Contract

  Versioned changes to the Agent Capability Contract specification and conformance materials.

• ACC v1.0.5 Release Notes

  Detailed security-boundary and conformance-coverage notes for the ACC v1.0.5 release.

• ACC v1.0.4 Release Notes

  Detailed compatibility and authoring-tool notes for the ACC v1.0.4 OpenAPI authoring experience release.

• ACC v1.0.3 Release Notes

  Detailed compatibility and implementation notes for the ACC v1.0.3 Core and Binding architecture clarification release.

• ACC v1.0.2 Release Notes

  Detailed compatibility and implementation notes for the ACC v1.0.2 boundary, governance, and documentation clarification release.

• ACC v1.0.1 Release Notes

  Detailed compatibility and implementation notes for the ACC v1.0.1 approval-semantics and conformance release.

• ACC v1.0.0 Release Notes

  Detailed notes for the first stable Agent Capability Contract v1 specification release.

• Agent Capability Contract（ACC）简体中文

  Agent Capability Contract 简体中文概览：为现有业务 API 声明 Agent 可触达操作及其治理语义。

• 5 分钟给现有 OpenAPI 服务加上 ACC

  给已有 OpenAPI 服务添加 ACC 声明、运行作者校验器并理解工具边界的中文快速上手。

• ACC 核心概念与范围边界

  A2B、ACC、跨边界 Agent 行动治理问题，以及共同问题与 ACC v1 当前规范范围的区别。

• ACC 设计依据与边界

  ACC 为什么保持小而中立的核心，以及权限、工作流、合规和运行时策略分别属于哪一层。

• ACC 安全治理责任说明

  非规范性指南：分清 ACC、运行时、业务系统与部署方的责任，以及各层需要提供的验收证据。

• ACC 商城与库存业务示例

  非规范性业务示例：用商品文案、发布、改价、库存查询和调整，理解风险、审批、任务限制与恢复边界。

• ACC v1 覆盖范围与实现证据

  非规范性覆盖索引：说明 26 个 ACC v1 参考向量覆盖什么，以及核验真实实现仍需哪些独立证据。

Machine-readable resources

• ACC v1 JSON Schema
• ACC v1 conformance vectors
• LLM document index
• Full plain-text corpus