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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.

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…

Every ACE MCP surface serves one tool table, the SDK's @ace-protocol/sdk/tools (AGENT_TOOLS): the same names, arguments and results, which the CLI commands also print.

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.