How AICEP evolved
The current version is AICEP 0.1 — Public Draft (RFC) on aicep.ai.
Late August 2026: the first 0.1 drafts
The first drafts (an overview and a set of supporting materials, dated 29 August 2026) framed the problem as context fragmentation. Every AI platform keeps its own history, memory and instruction files, and nothing moves cleanly between them. They proposed:
- a normalized context object with an envelope (id, type, source, provenance) and a body;
- an initial message-type taxonomy (conversation threads and turns, decisions, artifacts, instruction sets, task state, events);
- adapters that translate each platform's native export into the common shape;
- a hierarchical pub/sub topic layout, realized first as plain folders, with suggested delivery guarantees.
The integration philosophy came from earlier vendor-neutral data-exchange work: keep each system's native strengths and add a common exchange layer between them.
What changed on the way to the published draft
- Control and safety came first. The published 0.1 starts with who decides what (helm, on-loop, in-loop), DLP, seating and identity before any exchange. The early drafts were mostly about formats and transport.
- Exchange became the crossing. The loose "pub/sub" idea is now a defined bus and a crossing step: classify, gate, then hand off typed content, with a publication-permission check before any egress.
- Classification and egress became normative, including credential handling and stop-on-violation rules.
- Personal and tool-specific examples were removed. The published text is vendor-neutral and does not depend on any one person's setup.
- Open questions were settled or deferred. Wire format, versioning, threading and redaction are handled in the published text or left for later revisions. Encryption for cross-swarm transfer is a proposed Phase 2 extension (see the encryption scheme), not part of 0.1.
- Status: the drafts began as an early, closed draft. 0.1 is now published as a Public Draft (RFC), open for comments at hello@aicep.ai.
The early drafts are kept as an internal record and are not republished.