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This PR adds a new draft ERC, ERC-8489: Agent Information Flow Paradigm (AIFP): versioned, composable rules
for how agents provide, observe and redistribute information in a channel, with scoped role bindings and
four-valued verification. For readers who come from agent communication protocols, the ERC can be read in
that vocabulary: those protocols carry the messages and attach to a channel as transport bindings, and AIFP
records who may observe, contribute and redistribute in that context, under which version of the rules. This
is a reading aid, not a redefinition.

Scope. Three registries (paradigms, channels, participation), a predicate verifier interface, canonical
descriptor and subject-reference encodings, and optional profiles for event anchoring and absence
semantics. Transport is out of scope and attaches through declared bindings. requires: 165, 6372.

Assets. assets/erc-8489/ holds the interfaces and reference implementation (Solidity 0.8.28), the
descriptor and predicate JSON schemas, 17 example descriptors, and vectors (subject references, predicate
encodings, outcome tables, interface identifiers, paradigm identifiers). The Test Cases section of the ERC is
self-contained and reproduces the key vectors inline.

Discussion. Ethereum Magicians thread: https://ethereum-magicians.org/t/erc-8489-agent-information-flow-paradigm/30300

Repository. Reference repository with the Foundry suite (152 tests, 12 boundary cases), the canonical
validator, the evidence scripts and the Sepolia evidence run: https://github.com/garyyang-finchip/aif-paradigm

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File ERCS/erc-8489.md

Requires 1 more review from Editors: @g11tech, @jochem-brouwer, @samwilsn, @xinbenlv

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Co-authored-by: Chelsey Huang <234848168+chenxihuang1028-a11y@users.noreply.github.com>
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The commit d3f1882 (as a parent of 34935a3) contains errors.
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