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Issue 5 · 26 October

The Personal Agent Protocol freezes draft 0.2 and warns that each 0.x version may break the last

The project behind the Personal Agent Protocol published draft 0.2 on 24 October 2026 and says each 0.x version can break the one before. Draft 0.3 is already in progress with its own breaking changes. Do not build against it yet.

Sources used in this article: Personal Agent Protocol changelog.

The Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard being developed by Sierra with Meta for how a person's AI agent deals with companies, is changing fast and says so. Its changelog lists draft 0.1 as published on 9 October 2026 and draft 0.2 on 24 October, and warns that each 0.x version may break the one before. A promise that newer minor versions will not break older ones "now starts at 1.0". Watch, and revisit at 1.0, when that promise begins.

What broke in 0.2

Three changes in 0.2 break things that worked in 0.1. The discovery file, poppy.json, now speaks for the host that serves it, after redirects, and domains are compared ignoring only case, so a leading "www." is no longer ignored. "An issuer represents exactly one Company": a provider that hosts several companies must give each its own issuer, so they do not share user identifiers or account

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