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title: "Entity Engagement Protocol (EEP)"
abstract: >-
  EEP is an open standard for push-based, verifiable communication between
  digital entities (people, organizations, products, agents) and the
  authorized subscribers that follow them. It defines discovery, signal
  delivery (SSE and webhooks), an optional WebSocket pulse channel,
  cryptographically signed events, and access gates for identity,
  credentials, payment, and agreements. EEP is designed as
  complementary infrastructure to MCP (agent ↔ tool), A2A
  (agent ↔ agent collaboration), and ANP (decentralized agent networking).
type: software
license: Apache-2.0
url: "https://eep.dev"
repository-code: "https://github.com/eep-dev/EEP"
version: 0.1.0
keywords:
  - entity engagement protocol
  - eep
  - agentic web
  - webhooks
  - server-sent events
  - websockets
  - cloudevents
  - decentralized identifiers
  - verifiable credentials
  - mcp
authors:
  - family-names: Cekmez
    given-names: Ugur
    affiliation: "Munich University of Digital Technologies and Applied Sciences"
    email: hello@eep.dev
  - family-names: Yakupoglu
    given-names: Yigit
    affiliation: "Technic AI; Carnegie Mellon University"
  - family-names: Foley
    given-names: Jackson
    affiliation: "ThriveLogic"
  - family-names: Jaafari
    given-names: Omid
    affiliation: "SudoVision"
  - family-names: Acikbas
    given-names: Kasim
    affiliation: "Ultralytics"
  - family-names: Altuncu
    given-names: Tarik
    affiliation: "Imperial College London"
  - family-names: Cimenoglu
    given-names: Erdem
    affiliation: "Siemens"
  - family-names: Baytar
    given-names: Berk
    affiliation: "Chooch"
  - name: "BeneluxSoft"
    affiliation: "Belgium"
  - name: "Munich University of Digital Technologies (MUDT)"
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: "Entity Engagement Protocol: An Open Standard for Verifiable, Push-Based Agent–Entity Communication"
  authors:
    - family-names: Cekmez
      given-names: Ugur
      affiliation: "Munich University of Digital Technologies and Applied Sciences"
  year: 2026
  url: "https://github.com/eep-dev/EEP/blob/main/docs/WHITEPAPER.tex"
  notes: "Whitepaper distributed with the EEP repository (docs/WHITEPAPER.tex). The published PDF is attached to GitHub Releases."
identifiers:
  - type: url
    value: "https://eep.dev"
    description: "Project landing page"
  - type: url
    value: "https://github.com/eep-dev/EEP"
    description: "Source repository"
