Context and Correlation Management Architecture for Distributed Agentic Activities

Abstract

Agentic applications increasingly distribute a single objective across autonomous agents, tools, and services implemented by different vendors, operated by different organizations, and connected through different protocols.¶

A single activity may contain multiple pairwise dialogs, multiple tasks within each dialog, tool invocations, derived resources, downstream delegations, and later interactions that reinterpret or reuse artifacts produced earlier in the activity. Existing protocols provide useful local identifiers for their own interactions, but those identifiers do not by themselves provide a common information model for correlating independently maintained dialogs, tasks, and resources across protocol and administrative boundaries.¶

This document defines an information model consisting of Activities, Dialogs, Tasks, Resources, and typed Relationships. It distinguishes Activity correlation from protocol-local Dialog context, and distinguishes stable resource identity and provenance from locally defined interpretations.¶

As such, this document develops a context-and-correlation information-model architecture, not a functional reference architecture or a wire protocol. It identifies relevant objects and relationships, relevant to maintaining coherent context, and examines the implications for preserving and propagating their correlations. It does not define the procedures by which applications execute work. The model distinguishes the logical extent of an Activity, which may extend beyond protocol-managed correlation; extending that coverage is selec