Pact: A Choreographic Language for Agentic Ecosystems

ArXi:2605.03143v1 Announce Type: cross Recent advances in large language models have led to the rise of software systems (i.e. agents) that execute with increasing autonomy on behalf of users in open, multi-party settings, interacting with untrusted counterparts and managing private information. Choreographic programming offers correct-by-construction protocol-design for such settings, but assumes cooperative participants -- it has no notion of agent self-interest, that is, why an agent will follow a protocol.