# GB/Z 185 Artificial intelligence — Agent interconnection (人工智能 智能体互联) GB/Z 185 [6 · Coordinate](/category/coordinate/) | GB/Z 185 Artificial intelligence — Agent interconnection (人工智能 智能体互联) | | --- | | Category | [Coordinate](/category/coordinate/) | | Governed by | 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 | | 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 | claimed — SAMR press conference 2026-06-26 (100+ firms in the initiative, 50+ pilots) | | Version | GB/Z 185.1–185.7-2026 (national standardization guidance technical document) (2026-05-22) | | Specification | [https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702](https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702) | | Found at | Part 5 of the series covers agent discovery; its full text was not read for this record, so no fixed path is asserted | | Acronym 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 | | Last checked | 2026-10-20 | | Freshness | current · checked 2026-10-20 | | Solves | Let agents talk to other agents, Prove an agent's identity, Name and resolve agents, Describe an agent's capabilities | GB/Z 185 Artificial intelligence — Agent interconnection (人工智能 智能体互联) is an agentic-web standard (document format) at step 6, Coordinate, governed by Chinese national standardization guidance technical document (GB/Z) under the Standardization Administration (国家标准委); its own status is "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" (stable). It answers: How do AI agents built by different Chinese companies identify, describe, find and call each other, and invoke tools, under one national framework? Adoption is claimed by SAMR press conference 2026-06-26 (100+ firms in the initiative, 50+ pilots), last verified 2026-10-20. [Coordinate](/category/coordinate/) 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]](#ref-1)[[2]](#ref-2)[[4]](#ref-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]](#ref-1). ## Overview The 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]](#ref-1). The full text of Part 1 is free to read and download from SAMR's openstd site [[3]](#ref-3). The regulator says 70+ organisations drafted it, 100+ firms have joined the initiative and 50+ pilots are running [[4]](#ref-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]](#ref-5). That AIP is a different thing from the Agent Identity Protocol drafts this site tracks under the same initialism. What 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. ## Discovery and probe Part 5 of the series covers agent discovery; its full text was not read for this record, so no fixed path is asserted ``` GET 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. ``` Not probed live: no-fixed-path. probe rule pending: Part 5 (discovery) full text not yet read for a well-known path ## History - 2026-10-20 — 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 ## Instances No instances recorded yet. ## See also - Not to be confused with: 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 ## References - 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. — [https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113453761E06397BE0A0AFEB5](https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113453761E06397BE0A0AFEB5) (2026-05-22) VERIFIED - The SAMR record for GB/Z 185.7-2026 'Part 7: Agent tool invocation' carries the same publication date and technical committee. — [https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113493761E06397BE0A0AFEB5](https://std.samr.gov.cn/gb/search/gbDetailed?id=52A05F8113493761E06397BE0A0AFEB5) (2026-05-22) VERIFIED - The openstd.samr.gov.cn entry for Part 1 offers the full text free of charge (online preview and download). — [https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702](https://openstd.samr.gov.cn/bzgk/gb/newGbInfo?hcno=CFF03D872963466AC7F03ED0E28B6702) (2026-05-22) VERIFIED - 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. — [https://www.samr.gov.cn/xw/xwfbt/art/2026/art_fa730f984b2740baa248318118d77921.html](https://www.samr.gov.cn/xw/xwfbt/art/2026/art_fa730f984b2740baa248318118d77921.html) (2026-06-26) VERIFIED - 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. — [https://aip.openatom.tech/explore/journalism/detail/507545311238033408](https://aip.openatom.tech/explore/journalism/detail/507545311238033408) (2025-11-01) VERIFIED [JSON](/data/protocols/gbz-185-agent-interconnection.json) · [Markdown](/protocols/gbz-185-agent-interconnection/index.md)