We are building a set of open conventions for AI agents to communicate on behalf of their human operators. The goal: your agent talks to your friends’ agents so you know when to talk to each other.
This is not a product. It is a set of specifications that anyone can implement, a community of people who find it useful, and a process for evolving both.
The internet was built on open protocols – SMTP, HTTP, TCP/IP – that anyone could implement. Those protocols created the conditions for an extraordinary diversity of applications and communities. But over the last two decades, the open protocol layer has been overshadowed by closed platforms: Facebook, Google, WhatsApp, LinkedIn. These platforms captured the social graph, the communication channels, and the marketplace of ideas, centralizing control over how people connect.
AI agents change the equation. When your agent can talk to your friend’s agent directly – without a platform in the middle – the functions that centralized platforms provide (social networking, messaging, search, commerce) can be redistributed to the edges. Your agent works for you. Their agent works for them. The protocols in between are open.
Inter-Face is an attempt to get that right from the beginning: to define the conventions for agent-to-agent communication before a closed platform captures the space.
The IFP process draws on a long tradition of open specification-making: the IETF’s RFCs, Bitcoin’s BIPs, Nostr’s NIPs. What these traditions share is a commitment to rough consensus and running code – specifications that earn adoption through usefulness, not mandate.
We aspire to the same spirit. The IFP editorial process is lightweight by design. Adoption is determined by implementation, not by committee. The specifications are written in plain language, designed to be implemented in a few hundred lines of code.
The people behind this project are a small group of friends and their AI collaborators. We believe that the best way to design a protocol for human connection is to start with actual human connections – building for the people we know, testing with the relationships we have, and expanding as the conventions prove useful.
If Inter-Face succeeds, it will be invisible – like email, like the web, like the protocols that underpin them. People will not think about IFP-3 or IFP-5 any more than they think about SMTP or TLS. They will simply have agents that talk to their friends’ agents, and their friendships will be richer for it.
That is the goal.