Common Sense Innovation
Agent Protocols · v1.0 · October 2026

Give your agent a structure before it gives you a bill.

Abstract

Agents now search, compare and buy on our behalf. Nobody tells them whose side they are on. These two protocols do. One is for the person shopping. One is for the brand selling. Both are free. Paste one in, ask your agent the question in section 3, and share what it answered.

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The protocols

Each protocol is a plain text file. It works in any assistant that accepts standing instructions.

Protocol 1 · For shoppers

The Shopper Protocol

Tells any assistant that searches, compares or buys for you whose side it is on. Always show who profits. Always offer the maker's own website. Review the month with you.

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Protocol 2 · For enterprise

The Enterprise Protocol

A structure for the agents, storefronts and campaigns a brand runs. Label intent. Put the customer first. Pilot a return in brackets. Score it every quarter.

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Method

  1. Download the protocol that fits you.
  2. Paste it into your assistant's instructions, custom settings or project.
  3. Ask it the question below. Share what it answered.
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The test

Ask your agentUnder this protocol, whose interest do you serve first, and what would you have done differently on my last purchase?
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Results: your answers

A download is a number. An answer is evidence. Post what your agent said under the article on LinkedIn, and say shopper or enterprise. If it refused a line, say which one.

Your answers write version 1.1. Everyone whose answer shapes it is credited.

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