Today, we're open-sourcing the Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol (PACT), co-developed by Instinct. We're also joining the Personal Agent Protocol working group by Muse. Built on A2A and OAuth, PACT enables businesses to verify who a personal agent is acting for and what the customer has authorized it... to do. Excited to shape the industry standard for how personal agents will interact with businesses.show more

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@instinct @Muse Why is it always a flight booking demo

@instinct @Muse 🔥🔥

@instinct @Muse Open source is the way to go

@instinct @Muse Excited for the launch!

@instinct @Muse can you revoke the authorization mid task

@instinct @Muse ❤️

@instinct @Muse very interested in how the privacy, consumer intent issues are handled

@instinct @Muse Amazing to see this go live!

@instinct @Muse please tell me this is the same or at least complementary to the one that came out today. nothing like two competing protocols dropping on the same day.

@instinct @Muse Super cool

@instinct @Muse Are PACT and PAP the same thing? They seem to have similar goals. Will the converge? Congrats on the release, the spec is interesting

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@instinct @Muse The future of agents is more agent friendly interfaces and protocols that help regulate these interfaces and it’s so so exciting to see where we’re going ❤️

@instinct @Muse PACT solves verification but the harder problem is revocation. what happens when a user wants to pull consent mid-transaction an agent already started?

@instinct @Muse Why not all collaborate on one protocol ? In half a year there will be another Protocol to solve the same problem.

@instinct @Muse open sourcing a trust protocol for agents is a smart move for everyone

oh interesting, why have both PACT and Personal Agent Protocol? We actually just had a discussion about personal agents: how they work, when to use what, things to think about when building a specialized one. I think understanding details of personal agents will help you use them more effectively.

@instinct @Muse The shift toward open standards like this is exactly what the industry needs to move past brittle integrations. We actually went deeper on this here:

@instinct @Muse PACT nails consent. We built AMP to host Brands as a PACT Provider and add the multi-hop mesh on top (delegation chains, spend limits, erasure that travels with the message). Complementary, not competing. pip install ampro ·

@instinct @Muse Love seeing this kind of work on agent trust and consent. Getting the standards right now will make personal agents way more useful down the road 👑

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@instinct @Muse How do we join this group? We are building a personal assistant as well in India and would love to contribute in this accord.

@instinct @Muse how does PACT address privacy concerns in agent verification specifically?

PACT solves an important part of the trust problem: knowing who the agent is acting for and what it’s authorized to do. The next layer gets interesting after the authorization. Can we reconstruct the action itself — the context, decision, outcome, and evidence behind it? Authorization tells you an agent was allowed to act. Provenance tells you what actually happened and why.

@instinct @Muse Good to see some guardrails when all of your data is been in use.

@instinct @Muse PACT solves “who does this Agent act for.” Handing over a card is simpler for that,

@instinct @Muse Does that require access to iMessage content on any level, at anytime, for any reason?

@instinct @Muse 👀

@instinct @Muse Big step for trust setting the standard for personal agents

@instinct @Muse Every company on earth should get onboard yet still most dont even offer mcps

@instinct @Muse Another step, today alone, in the right direction for unblocking agents from actually doing things on the web

@instinct @Muse This is great!