DDSE Foundation Unveils Agentic Contract Model Framework v0.5.0

The DDSE Foundation has announced the release of the Agentic Contract Model (ACM) Framework v0.5.0. This release focuses on specification-accurate artifacts such as Goals, Context Packets, Plans, Capabilities, Tasks, Tools, Policy, and Ledger, providing a high-level interface to execute ACM-compliant workflows with a single call.

This marks the first public release, emphasizing enablement and design intent when discussing fairness and enterprise readiness. Guarantees are contingent upon the policies, datasets, and orchestrators configured around ACM.

Typed contracts are available for Goals, Capabilities, Tasks, Tools, Policy hooks, Verification adapters, and Ledger events. The structured planner generates plan candidates with rationale, tool-call envelopes, and prompt digests, offering deterministic selectors for auditability.

A deterministic-style runtime executes validated plans with guard evaluation, retries/backoff, policy & verification hooks, checkpointing, and an append-only decision ledger. Replay bundles export a single audit-ready artifact combining planner outputs, ledger entries, policy outcomes, checkpoints, and task I/O.

Adapters for LangGraph and Microsoft Agent Framework preserve ACM contracts while running on external engines. MCP integration treats external tools as first-class, discoverable capabilities. The @ddse/acm-framework façade connects planner, runtime, nucleus config, context providers, and adapters for one-call execution. Examples and AI Coder demonstrate planning→execution→replay, budgeting, and streaming UX in real workflows.