Ahoy: LLMs Enacting Multiagent Interaction Protocols

Omkar Jayant Joshi, Munindar P. Singh, Amit K. Chopra

Keywords: Agentic AI, Communication Protocols, Information Protocols

TL;DR: Our approach, Ahoy, enables the creation of LLM agents that dynamically select and enact declarative protocols to achieve user goals expressed in natural language.

Abstract: An interaction protocol formalizes how the agents in a multiagent system interact, which facilitates implementing agents. Existing approaches yield agent implementations specific to the selected protocols. How can we engineer intelligent agents that can enact protocols but are not protocol-specific? Our contribution, Ahoy, addresses this question by creating LLM agents that dynamically select and enact declarative protocols to achieve user goals. We demonstrate that an Ahoy agent can correctly and intelligently enact multiple protocols—concurrently if appropriate to the user goal—without specialized training. Ahoy’s significance lies in that it brings together declarative protocols and LLMs, both approaches that promise reduced knowledge engineering for agents.

Paper Type: Regular paper

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Submission Number: 24