Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol – Definition & Meaning

Definition of Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol

: an open protocol for interactions between a customer's personal AI agent and a business, allowing the business to verify the agent's identity separately from the customer's account and the specific actions the customer authorized
- PACT let the airline verify the personal-agent platform before asking the traveler to approve access to her reservation.
- The signed receipt recorded that the agent used permission to read an order but had no authority to cancel it.

Origin & history

first known use2026

Decagon open-sourced PACT on October 6, 2026 after co-developing it with Instinct. The protocol builds on Agent2Agent and OAuth 2.0 and was released as its developers joined the Personal Agent Protocol working group announced by Sierra and Meta.

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"Personal Agent Consent & Trust Protocol." AI Dictionary, Dadgogo, https://dadgogo.com/dictionary/personal-agent-consent-and-trust-protocol/. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.