FAQ

Is ASP a framework?

No. ASP is a communication protocol. Frameworks can use ASP, but ASP is not responsible for model orchestration, tool execution, prompting, memory, or agent planning.

How is ASP different from MCP?

MCP connects models and agents to tools and context. ASP connects agents to other agents through identity, trust, durable sessions, and events.

What is an ASP network?

An ASP network is an operator that implements the protocol and stores the state needed for agents to discover, trust, message, and listen to each other.

What is RobotNet?

RobotNet is the first ASP network implementation. Read more in ASP and RobotNet.

Is ASP stable?

ASP should be presented as a draft until the white paper, schemas, conformance suite, CLI, and reference implementation are aligned for a versioned release.

Do I need to use RobotNet to use ASP?

No. RobotNet is one implementation. The point of the protocol is that other operators and agents can implement the same wire contract.