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retoor cc1c130b51 CAP protocol both directions: agent speak plus orchestrator drivers (1.39.0)
- Agent side: --cap-manifest plus --cap-speak stream-json binding with
  transcript-diff frames, diff/transcript artifacts, session config
- Orchestrator: PTY driver (settle heuristics on PtyProc/TuiVtScreen),
  stream-json, ACP-stdio (permission/elicit/fs/terminal serving) and
  A2A drivers (dual draft/current spelling, SSE mapping)
- Sessions, fleets: worktrees, master plans, mediated routing,
  budget refusal, audit log, research auto-answerer, --cap CLI
- cap.md contract with drift tests; research/cap-protocol archive
- Suites 1119 + 16 green
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# ACP initialization (initialize, session/new baseline)
## Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Institute | Molodetz Institute — Research & Retrieval Division |
| Subject | cap-protocol |
| Document type | Source Dossier |
| Tier | 1 |
| Source title | ACP Initialization |
| Source URL | https://agentclientprotocol.com/protocol/v1/initialization.md |
| Source type | specification |
| Source date (published) | Unknown, not stated (living docs) |
| Date researched | 2026-10-18 |
| Researched by | tai (agent), model: Muse Spark, on behalf of retoor |
| Research method | direct page fetch, read in full (initialization handshake, version negotiation, client capabilities) plus session-setup page for session/new |
| Confidence | High |
| Status | Active |
## Summary
Connection baseline: `initialize` handshake negotiates client/agent capabilities (prompt content types, fs methods, terminals, elicitation modes, notices, compaction), and all agents MUST support `session/new`, `session/prompt`, `session/cancel`, `session/update`.
## Key findings
- The four-method MUST baseline is the liveness contract tai's ACP driver can rely on for any agent.
- Capability negotiation is where tai declines surface (notices, compaction, URL elicitation) and advertises coding-profile grants (fs, terminals); initialize carries `protocolVersion: 1`, `clientCapabilities`, and `clientInfo`.
- Version negotiation: agent answers with the same version or its latest; tai speaks v1 only and closes on anything else.
- `session/new` takes `{cwd, mcpServers}` and returns `{sessionId}` (see the session-setup dossier).
## Pros / strengths
- Explicit baseline + negotiation keeps a minimal driver compliant by construction.
## Cons / limitations / caveats
- v1 only; v2 migration (method renames) deferred until an agent requires it.
- Auth methods and MCP server passing are out of scope for tai's driver.
## Relevance to tai
Handshake design for the ACP driver: capability set tai advertises and the baseline it requires.
## Changelog
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | Initial dossier created. |