Clarification on ontic alignment and provenance (Agent Ontology / Agent IDL)

Hi all,

I would like to provide a brief clarification regarding earlier
discussions around ontic categories and their relation to the current
Agent Ontology / Agent IDL work.

During prior public mailing list discussions, certain ontic categories
were introduced as part of exploratory context. These concepts were
externally provided and served to help frame the discussion space, but
were not intended as adopted components of any emerging specification,
nor are they included in this work.

Following that, I conducted a review and cleanup of the related
repositories (Agent Ontology and Agent IDL) to ensure clear provenance
and independence. Any content that could be interpreted as derived
from such external inputs has been removed or refactored.

As a result.

The current Agent Ontology and Agent IDL are independently constructed
They do not incorporate or depend on any external ontic classification systems
The design remains ontology-agnostic at the runtime and interface level
Both repos reverted the commits.

This clarification is intended to avoid any confusion regarding
alignment, reuse, or implied adoption of external ontological
frameworks.

Happy to discuss further if helpful.

Received on Thursday, 19 March 2026 05:13:58 UTC