Research Sources

Agent Context v0.1.0 uses established context, resource, eventing, telemetry, provenance, annotation, and validation references. These references inform the shape of the standard; they do not transfer ownership of Agent Context semantics.

Source	What Agent Context takes from it
Model Context Protocol resources specification	Resource discovery, resource URIs, resource templates, resource links, annotations, and read/list boundaries for context sources.
Model Context Protocol roots specification	Root boundaries for filesystem and workspace context.
Model Context Protocol prompts specification	Prompt arguments, reusable prompt surfaces, and context-producing prompt templates.
Agent2Agent Protocol	Peer-agent task context ids, messages, parts, artifacts, agent cards, and skills as native handoff mappings.
OpenTelemetry GenAI semantic conventions	Trace/span correlation, operation names, prompt events, token usage, and conversation/session telemetry refs.
W3C PROV Data Model	Entity, activity, agent, derivation, attribution, and generation concepts for context provenance.
W3C Web Annotation Data Model	Targets and selectors for precise source anchoring, including text position and text quote selectors.
CloudEvents specification	Portable event envelope fields such as id, source, specversion, type, subject, time, and content metadata.
JSON Schema 2020-12	Structural schema vocabulary and validation vocabulary for public schemas.
Agent Skills	AI-friendly authoring style, progressive disclosure, and package-versus-runtime boundary discipline.