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Why Now

Agentic workflows are increasingly executing real tasks with side effects.

Without deterministic guardrails, common failures include:

  • unverified claims
  • skipped tool calls
  • unauthorized writes
  • poor auditability

UAICP standardizes the reliability controls needed to make these workflows production-safe.

First Principles​

  • LLM output is probabilistic.
  • Workflow control must be deterministic.
  • Verification must be mechanical, not self-assessed.

UAICP operationalizes these principles through contracts and invariants.

Market Pull​

UAICP is aimed at enterprise and regulated execution contexts where non-silent failure and auditability are mandatory. It is not optimized for demo-first autonomous agent showcases.

Why a Separate Layer​

Frameworks such as LangGraph, Microsoft Agent Framework runtimes, AutoGen, and CrewAI are strong orchestration systems. UAICP is the reliability governance layer that remains portable across all of them.

Without a shared contract layer, every team reinvents:

  • evidence contracts
  • verifier report semantics
  • policy gating behavior
  • conformance criteria