# Agentic Intent Protocol (AIP)

## Docs

- [AIP Authentication & Signing (v1.0)](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/authentication-signing.md): Normative spec for message authentication and signing for RetrieveRequest and RetrieveResponse.
- [Brand Agents](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/brand-agents.md): How commercial agents participate in AIP  -  from recommendation to delegation and task execution.
- [Universal Commerce Protocol Integration](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/commerce-ucp.md): How to hand off commerce execution from AIP into Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and measure performance.
- [Compliance](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/compliance.md): Understand AIP's protocol-level compliance invariants for privacy, data integrity, and verifiability.
- [Delegation Protocol](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/delegation.md): How AIP manages session handoff from AI platforms to brand agents for real task execution.
- [End-to-End Flow](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/end-to-end-flow.md): Complete flows for both recommend and delegate modes  -  from PlatformRequest through every schema and event.
- [AIP Events](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/events.md): How AIP tracks exposure_shown, interaction_started, delegation_started, delegation_activity, delegation_expired, and task_completed for auditable settlement.
- [FAQ -- Brand Agents](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/faq/brand-agents.md): Frequently asked questions for brand agents participating in AIP
- [FAQ -- Compliance and Audit](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/faq/compliance-and-audit.md): Frequently asked questions about AIP compliance, privacy, and audit trails
- [FAQ -- Operators](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/faq/operators.md): Frequently asked questions for operators implementing AIP
- [FAQ -- Platforms](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/faq/platforms.md): Frequently asked questions for AI platforms integrating with AIP
- [Glossary](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/glossary.md): Protocol terminology reference for the Agentic Intent Protocol (AIP).
- [Agentic Intent Protocol (AIP)](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/index.md): AIP is the open protocol for AI advertising, commercial delegation, and outcome-based settlement across AI platforms, operators, and brand agents.
- [Interaction Modes](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/interaction-modes.md): How AIP defines the two modes of commercial participation  -  recommend and delegate.
- [AIP Operators](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/operators.md): How to implement and operate an AIP-compatible participation operator.
- [AIP Overview](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/overview.md): How the Agentic Intent Protocol works across AI platforms, operators, and brand agents, from participation and delegation to event tracking and settlement.
- [AI Platforms](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/platforms.md): How AI platforms integrate with AIP to govern commercial participation and deliver outcomes.
- [Agentic Intent Protocol Overview](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/protocol.md): Understand AIP message flow, identifiers, PlatformRequest, ContextRequest, PlatformResponse, and how AI platforms connect to operators and brand agents.
- [Publisher Access Governance (PAG)](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/publishers.md): How content publishers participate in PAG through permissioned access, structured retrieval, and post-retrieval accountability, separate from operator monetization.
- [Agentic Intent Classifier](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/resources/agentic-intent-classifier.md): Reference implementation of the multi-head intent classification stack that produces the Agentic Intent Taxonomy decision envelope
- [Access & Citation Events](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/access-citation-event.md): Publisher → platform / operator telemetry for post-retrieval accountability (no ads, no pricing, no user identity).
- [Agentic Intent Taxonomy](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/agentic-intent-taxonomy.md): Field-level documentation for the Agentic Intent Taxonomy decision envelope
- [PAG Publisher Declaration (aip.json)](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/aip.md): Field-by-field documentation for the PAG publisher declaration at /.well-known/aip.json.
- [Bid](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/bid.md): Brand Agent bid payload returned for a ContextRequest, including targeting, pricing, budget, recommendation, and optional delegation support
- [Context Request](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/context-request.md): Operator-generated, bid-safe auction context derived from a valid PlatformRequest — sent to downstream brand agents for bidding
- [Platform Request](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/platform-request.md): Operator-agnostic platform request schema for intent-based monetization — supports operator-derived and platform-derived classification input modes
- [Platform Response](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/platform-response.md): Operator-generated response returned to the AI platform after auction evaluation
- [RetrieveRequest](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/retrieve-request.md): Platform-to-publisher permissioned content retrieval request (no ads, no bidding, no operator semantics).
- [RetrieveResponse](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/schemas/retrieve-response.md): Publisher → platform response to a RetrieveRequest (chunks, citations, or explicit denial).
- [AIP Security](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/security.md): Understand AIP security for message signing, authenticity, integrity, replay protection, and operator-side verification of commercial events.
- [Real-Time Selection](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/selection.md): How AIP defines selection constraints and outcome guarantees  -  operators choose the mechanism (auction, rules, or hybrid).
- [AIP Settlement](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/settlement.md): Understand AIP settlement rules for CPX, CPC, CPE, and CPA, including how one serve_token resolves to one terminal charge.
- [AIP State Machine](https://agenticintentprotocol.com/state-machine.md): How AIP defines allowed state transitions from exposure and delegation through task completion, settlement, expiry, and refund handling.