AI Index
Standards
Formally governed specifications. Most of them deliberately leave memory out, and that gap is the story. 15 entries.
Linux Foundation, AAIF Growth Stage project 2026-08-27; 1…
Agent-to-agent transport; deliberately memory-free.★ 26,476 on GitHub · +7 today
Specificationagent:// ProtocolIETF Independent Submission
URI-based interoperability framework for agents (RFC 3986/7595; W3C Trace Context)SpecificationAIMEM BundleIETF (individual)
IETF individual draft: vendor-neutral interchange bundle for preferences/decisions/identity claimsSpecificationANS (Agent Name Service)IETF (individual) + Linux Foundation (announced)
Universal agent directory/naming/identity protocol; PKI cert chains; adapter layer for A2A/MCP/ACP; Linux Foundation launch intentSpecificationIETF agentproto WGIETF Applications & Real-Time area; charter approved 2026…
The real IETF agent-protocol track, deliberately memory-free — the gap is the story.SpecificationmemorywireNone — solo research project (arXiv 2606.01138)
Vendor-neutral wire format candidate.★ 2 on GitHub
SpecificationModel Context Protocol (MCP)Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation directed fund; do…
Transport/context standard; explicit non-standardizer of memory.★ 9,655 on GitHub · +3 today
SpecificationNANDA AgentFactsMIT Media Lab / Foundation for Agentic Networks — researc…
Research architecture candidate.SpecificationOASF — Open Agentic Schema FrameworkAGNTCY (Linux Foundation, Cisco-donated July 2025)
Agent-description schema, memory-adjacent.★ 345 on GitHub
SpecificationOWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications 2026 (ASI06 Memory & Context Poisoning)OWASP GenAI Security Project (de facto, non-SDO)
De-facto security baseline for memory.SpecificationPAMSPEC — Persistent Agentic Memory ArchitectureIndividual I-D (Informational)
Candidate architecture standard.SpecificationPortable Agent Memory (PAM v2)none (research paper)
5-component memory model M=(E,S,P,W,I); Merkle-DAG provenance; capability-scoped tokens; cross-vendor pilotSpecificationSAIHM — Sovereign AI Horizontal Memory ProtocolNone (individual I-D, author Russell Jackson; Independent…
Candidate memory standard — the strongest one; chair of the W3C memory CG maintains it (disclosed conflict).★ 4 on GitHub
SpecificationW3C AI Agent Memory Interoperability CGW3C Community Group (charter v1.0 adopted 2026-06-19; ~39…
The single most on-point non-vendor memory body; sits one layer above the wire protocol; no normative home yet — WATCH gap.SpecificationWebMCPW3C Community Group
W3C CG draft (Microsoft/Google editors): browser DOM tool-registration API navigator.modelContext; bridges to server MCP