Why AI agents need a standard profile format

Why AI agents need a standard profile format And why nobody has built it yet. You can describe a REST API in OpenAPI. Any developer on the planet can read that file and know exactly what your API does, what endpoints exist, what parameters they take, and what they return. You can describe an npm package in package.json . Any Node project can declare a dependency on it, pin a version, and resolve it automatically. You can describe a Docker container in a Dockerfile. Any machine can pull it, run it, and know exactly what it contains. Now try to describe an AI agent. Not how it runs. Not how it communicates. How it is . What it can do. Whether it's reliable. What it costs. Whether you should hire it over the one from a different provider. There is no standard format for this. None. And in 2026, with hundreds of companies shipping AI agents into production, that gap is becoming a serious problem. The protocols we have solve different problems Before going further, let's be precise about wh