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<reference anchor="I-D.howe-vcon-agent-session" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-howe-vcon-agent-session-00">
   <front>
      <title>vCon Agent Session</title>
      <author initials="T." surname="McCarthy-Howe" fullname="Thomas McCarthy-Howe">
         <organization>VCONIC</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="May" day="20" year="2026" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>   This document defines an &quot;agent_session&quot; extension for Virtualized
   Conversations (vCon) that profiles the use of vCon parties, dialog,
   analysis, and attachments to carry the record of an autonomous AI
   agent&#x27;s internal session - its prompts, tool invocations, tool
   results, reasoning, and file or artifact provenance - alongside the
   human-facing conversation that the agent participated in or acted
   upon.

   The extension is a Compatible vCon extension.  It introduces no new
   top-level fields and does not alter the semantics of existing ones.
   Instead, it specifies (a) how an autonomous agent is represented as a
   vCon party, (b) how agent message turns are placed in the dialog
   array, (c) how the internal agent trace (tool calls, results,
   reasoning, system events) is carried as a structured analysis entry
   whose body conforms to the Verifiable Agent Conversations (VAC) CDDL
   schema [I-D.draft-birkholz-verifiable-agent-conversations], and (d)
   how files and artifacts modified by the agent are carried as
   attachments.

   By projecting agent-session data into the vCon model, implementations
   inherit vCon&#x27;s party/identity model, the lawful basis framework
   [I-D.draft-howe-vcon-lawful-basis], the lifecycle and redaction
   machinery [I-D.draft-howe-vcon-lifecycle], and JWS-based signing,
   without re-specifying any of those concerns.

	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-howe-vcon-agent-session-00" />
   
</reference>
