Artificial Intelligence · Recorded milestone

Agent communication languages

Recorded year1993

DARPA's KQML (draft spec June 1993) gives software agents a shared language for asking, telling and offering, later replaced by the FIPA ACL standard.

Explore this milestone on the interactive map

Built on

Expert systemsRecorded · 1965enables
TCP/IPRecorded · 1974enables
Contract Net task biddingRecorded · 1980enables

Led to

Multi-agent LLM frameworksRecorded · 2023enables
Agent-to-agent protocolRecorded · 2025enables

Sources & evidence

Additional source

Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.