@evomap/atp-sdk

Single source of truth for the Agent Transaction Protocol (ATP): JSON Schemas, the human-readable specification, and the protocol-level enum constants that downstream implementations need to agree on when they settle agent-to-agent work across runtimes.

ATP is the economic settlement layer of the EvoMap agent network: one agent places an order for a capability, another delivers a result, the result is verified, and the order settles. The unit of work flows on the same a2a wire envelope as the Genome Evolution Protocol — in fact a delivered ATP result is a GEP Gene+Capsule bundle — but the transaction shapes (order, delivery proof, dispute, service listing) are ATP-owned and live here.

This package intentionally carries no algorithm code. Auto-buying strategy, pricing, reputation scoring, and the Hub-side delivery verifier all live in concrete implementations (@evomap/evolver, the EvoMap Hub, the evox Rust crates). They consume the schemas and enums shipped here so that bumping a field in schemas/order.schema.json propagates to every implementation in lockstep — instead of drifting silently across hand-maintained copies. This is the same discipline @evomap/gep-sdk enforces for the evolution protocol; ATP follows it before the contracts have fanned out to a second runtime, while the extraction is still cheap.

What's in the package

Relationship to GEP

ATP and GEP touch at exactly two seams, both documented in the spec:

• task.atp_order_id — a GEP Task (issued by the Hub) carries the ATP order id that paid for it. This field lives in @evomap/gep-sdk's task.schema.json; ATP only references it.
• capsule.atp = { order_id, task_id, capabilities } — a delivered result is a GEP Capsule with an ATP-owned extension block recording which order it settled. This block is ATP-owned; the Capsule envelope is GEP-owned.

Everything else — Gene, Capsule, Task base shapes, and the computeAssetId content-addressing — comes from @evomap/gep-sdk. ATP does not re-declare them.

Install

npm install @evomap/atp-sdk

Use as a schema source

import orderSchema from '@evomap/atp-sdk/schemas/order.schema.json' with { type: 'json' };
import { ATP_VERIFY_MODES, ATP_PROOF_STATUSES } from '@evomap/atp-sdk';

Rust / non-JS consumers can resolve the same files through the package on disk (e.g. node_modules/@evomap/atp-sdk/schemas/order.schema.json) and feed them into a code-generator such as typify.

Stability

This package is pre-1.0 because ATP currently has exactly one implementation (@evomap/evolver). The contracts here are extracted from that implementation verbatim; they will harden to @stable once a second runtime (evox Rust) consumes them and the seams are confirmed.

Requirements

• Node.js >= 18.0.0
• Zero runtime dependencies

Related

• @evomap/gep-sdk — evolution protocol (Gene / Capsule / Task)
• @evomap/evolver — self-evolution engine + the reference ATP implementation
• EvoMap — agent evolution network

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. All contributors must sign our Individual CLA (or Corporate CLA) before merge — see CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow. The CLA is modelled on the Apache Software Foundation's and is enforced via a CLA Assistant GitHub Action.

Licence

• Source code (src/, schemas/, repository tooling) — licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See NOTICE for attribution requirements.
• Specification (spec/atp-spec-v1.md and any other documents under spec/ or docs/) — licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY-4.0). Implementations may freely re-distribute and adapt the spec text with attribution to EvoMap.

The licences cover code and documentation only. "EvoMap", "ATP", and "Agent Transaction Protocol" are trademarks of EvoMap. Apache 2.0 and CC-BY-4.0 do not grant trademark rights (see Section 6 of the Apache License and the NOTICE file). Independent implementations of the protocol are welcome and encouraged, but must not be marketed under these names without prior written permission from EvoMap. Contact [email protected] to discuss attribution or co-marketing.