After building Consilium, my multi-AI expert consensus platform for the Gradio Agents and MCP Hackathon, Deborah Dahl introduced me to the Open Floor Protocol.
This protocol provides a standardized JSON message format for communication between conversational agents and human users across different platforms.
𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀: ✅ 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - transferring control between agents ✅ 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 - passing messages without modification ✅ 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - coordinating behind the scenes ✅ 𝗢𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 - multiple agents collaborating
I am already working on a version of Consilium where you can add any Open Floor-compliant agents 🚀.