{
 "id": "gbz-185-agent-interconnection",
 "name": "GB/Z 185 Artificial intelligence — Agent interconnection (人工智能 智能体互联)",
 "acronym": "GB/Z 185",
 "aliases": [
  "GB/Z 185-2026",
  "智能体互联",
  "Agent interconnection national standard"
 ],
 "collisions": [
  "AIP: the open-source Agent Interconnection Protocol (OpenAtom) that accompanies this series is unrelated to the Agent Identity Protocol drafts tracked as aip, aip-delegation-chain and agent-identity-protocol-singla"
 ],
 "step": "coordinate",
 "parties": [
  "agent-agent",
  "agent-registry"
 ],
 "form": "document-format",
 "track": "industry-body",
 "scope": "general",
 "question": "How do AI agents built by different Chinese companies identify, describe, find and call each other, and invoke tools, under one national framework?",
 "analog": "A national interconnection standard, like the rules that let different carriers' phone networks call each other",
 "origin": {
  "org": "China Electronics Standardization Institute (CESI), lead drafter, under SAC/TC28/SC42",
  "date": "2026-05-22"
 },
 "governance": "Chinese national standardization guidance technical document (GB/Z) under the Standardization Administration (国家标准委); technical committee TC28, executed by TC28/SC42 (artificial intelligence); 37 drafting units listed for Part 1, led by CESI",
 "native_status": "国家标准 指导性技术文件 (GB/Z, national standardization guidance technical document), status 现行 (in force), published 2026-05-22; guidance-grade, not mandatory; no implementation date shown on the SAMR pages",
 "phase": "stable",
 "implementation": "developer-trial",
 "adoption": {
  "level": "claimed",
  "by": "SAMR press conference 2026-06-26 (100+ firms in the initiative, 50+ pilots)",
  "probe_run": null
 },
 "version": {
  "label": "GB/Z 185.1–185.7-2026 (national standardization guidance technical document)",
  "date": "2026-05-22"
 },
 "spec_url": "https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702",
 "discovery": {
  "mechanism": "Part 5 of the series covers agent discovery; its full text was not read for this record, so no fixed path is asserted",
  "path": null
 },
 "probe": {
  "method": "GET",
  "path": "none — no origin path confirmed",
  "parse": "No probe rule yet. Reading Part 5 (discovery) is needed to learn whether the series defines a well-known path or registry endpoint.",
  "on_absent": "Not probeable from an origin until Part 5 is read; absence says nothing about adoption."
 },
 "evidence": [
  {
   "claim": "The SAMR national standards record for GB/Z 185.1-2026 '人工智能 智能体互联 第1部分：总体架构 / Artificial intelligence—Agent interconnection—Part 1: General architecture' shows a GB/Z guidance technical document, status 现行 (in force), published 2026-05-22, technical committee TC28 executed by TC28/SC42, with 37 drafting units led by CESI and including BUPT, Xiaomi, Huawei, Ant Group, China Mobile, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance (Volcano Engine), ZTE, Lenovo and CNNIC.",
   "label": "VERIFIED",
   "url": "https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113453761E06397BE0A0AFEB5",
   "date": "2026-05-22"
  },
  {
   "claim": "The SAMR record for GB/Z 185.7-2026 'Part 7: Agent tool invocation' carries the same publication date and technical committee.",
   "label": "VERIFIED",
   "url": "https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113493761E06397BE0A0AFEB5",
   "date": "2026-05-22"
  },
  {
   "claim": "The openstd.samr.gov.cn entry for Part 1 offers the full text free of charge (online preview and download).",
   "label": "VERIFIED",
   "url": "https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702",
   "date": "2026-05-22"
  },
  {
   "claim": "At a SAMR press conference on 2026-06-26, the regulator described a series of seven national standards covering architecture, identity code, identity management, description, discovery, interaction and tool invocation, drafted under CESI's lead with 70+ organisations and 600+ comments; it said 100+ firms had joined the initiative and 50+ pilots were under way, and named the Agent Interconnection Protocol (AIP), whose open-source development BUPT helps lead. The page does not cite the number GB/Z 185.",
   "label": "VERIFIED",
   "url": "https://www.samr.gov.cn/xw/xwfbt/art/2026/art_fa730f984b2740baa248318118d77921.html",
   "date": "2026-06-26"
  },
  {
   "claim": "The AIP project news page (2025-11-01) reports the first open-source AIP code release on 2025-10-27 by BUPT and CESI, and says AIP conforms to the TC28/SC42 agent interconnection series without naming GB/Z 185.",
   "label": "VERIFIED",
   "url": "https://aip.openatom.tech/explore/journalism/detail/507545311238033408",
   "date": "2025-11-01"
  }
 ],
 "last_verified": "2026-10-20",
 "dispute": null,
 "summary_md": "GB/Z 185 is China's seven-part national guidance standard for interconnecting AI agents. The parts cover general architecture, agent identity codes, identity management, agent description, discovery, interaction and tool invocation [1][2][4]. It is a GB/Z document, a national standardization guidance technical document: in force since 2026-05-22, but guidance-grade rather than mandatory [1].\n\nThe series sits under technical committee TC28 and its AI subcommittee TC28/SC42. CESI led the drafting. The Part 1 record lists 37 drafting units, among them BUPT, Xiaomi, Huawei, Ant Group, China Mobile, Alibaba Cloud, ByteDance (Volcano Engine), ZTE, Lenovo and CNNIC [1]. The full text of Part 1 is free to read and download from SAMR's openstd site [3].\n\nThe regulator says 70+ organisations drafted it, 100+ firms have joined the initiative and 50+ pilots are running [4]. Those are the regulator's figures, not counts this site has checked. An open-source companion, the Agent Interconnection Protocol (AIP), was first released on 2025-10-27 by BUPT and CESI, and its project says it conforms to the series [5]. That AIP is a different thing from the Agent Identity Protocol drafts this site tracks under the same initialism.\n\nWhat is open: this record has not yet been checked against the full text of Part 5 (discovery), so it does not say whether the series defines a well-known path or registry an agent could probe.",
 "history": [
  {
   "date": "2026-10-20",
   "note": "added from gap scout 2026-10-20; verified against the SAMR standards records for Parts 1 and 7, the openstd full-text entry, the SAMR press conference of 2026-06-26 and the AIP project news page"
  }
 ],
 "part_of": null,
 "group": null,
 "watch": [
  {
   "type": "page",
   "url": "https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113453761E06397BE0A0AFEB5",
   "selector": "main",
   "cadence": "weekly"
  }
 ],
 "use_cases": [
  "agent-to-agent-messaging",
  "prove-agent-identity",
  "agent-naming",
  "describe-agent-capabilities"
 ],
 "audience": [
  "platform",
  "agent-builder",
  "standards-body"
 ],
 "pairs_with": [
  "a2a",
  "anp",
  "ads",
  "mcp"
 ],
 "prerequisites": [],
 "freshness": "current",
 "url": "https://agenticweb.wiki/protocols/gbz-185-agent-interconnection/",
 "category": "coordinate",
 "type": "protocol"
}