Research Sources

Agent Artifact v0.1.0 uses established resource, artifact, provenance, packaging, eventing, telemetry, and content provenance references. These references inform the shape of the standard; they do not transfer ownership of Agent Artifact semantics.

Source	What Agent Artifact takes from it
Model Context Protocol specification	Resources, resource links, embedded resources, content blocks, media content, annotations, and URI-based references.
Agent2Agent Protocol	Peer agent tasks, messages, artifacts, and handoff references.
OCI Image Specification	Descriptors with media type, digest, size, annotations, manifests, and content-addressable refs.
W3C PROV Data Model	Entities, activities, agents, derivation, attribution, and provenance graphs.
W3C Web Annotation Data Model	Targets, bodies, selectors, and states for part-level annotations and source ranges.
in-toto Attestation Framework	Subject digests, predicates, and signed provenance attestations.
SLSA Provenance	Build and generation provenance for artifact integrity.
BagIt RFC 8493	Package layout, manifests, payload files, and checksums.
RO-Crate	Metadata-rich research object packaging.
C2PA Specification	Content provenance manifests, ingredients, assertions, and generated media provenance.
CloudEvents specification	Portable event envelope design.
OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions	Trace and span correlation for model and tool-generated artifacts.