OpenAI joins Meta and Sierra's Agent protocol, with the first draft released ahead of schedule.

Beating AI News Flash: The Personal Agent Protocol PAP, initiated by Meta and Sierra, has released its first version 0.1 draft, Poppy, ahead of schedule. OpenAI, Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and 35 other companies have newly joined the development. What PAP aims to solve is how enterprises can confirm the identity of a personal Agent when it acts on behalf of a user, what authorizations it has obtained, and what operations it can perform.

Currently, many Agents still rely on simulating real human operations on websites, logging into accounts, clicking buttons, and filling out forms. Enterprises find it difficult to distinguish whether a visitor is a human or an Agent, and cannot separately restrict its operations. Poppy stipulates that enterprises publish a standardized access file on their websites, listing login methods, available interfaces, and entry points for the enterprise's customer service Agent. Agents need to identify themselves, and must also obtain authorization when accessing user accounts.

Agents from different vendors that support PAP can connect to enterprise services under the same set of rules, handle tasks through web pages, APIs, or the enterprise's own Agent, and continue the same session across supported channels. Enterprises still need to open the corresponding services, but no longer need to design identity verification and authorization processes separately for each Agent. Sierra previously demonstrated on site that Meta Muse found the Agent of mortgage company Rocket through PAP. After user authorization, the Agents on both sides collaborated to complete mortgage pre-approval.

Enterprises still hold access permissions. For example, merchants can allow an Agent to initiate returns, but prohibit it from modifying users' saved payment information, and can also directly refuse access to a specific Agent. However, Poppy is still a draft that may be revised. Although payment companies such as Visa and PayPal participated in its development, functions such as payments and proactive notifications have not yet been included.