DEV Community Proposes Formal Safety Protocol for Multi-Agent AI Resource Management

A technical specification published on DEV Community outlines formal conditions for safe and sustainable resource management in multi-agent AI systems (MAS). Drawing on the historical context of Asimov's Laws of Robotics, the document argues that moral declarations alone are insufficient and must be translated into measurable, verifiable engineering parameters. The protocol defines resources through a structured vector model capturing rivalrousness, urgency, and durability, and is designed to be agnostic to the type of agent involved. It targets developers, protocol designers, auditors, and anyone evaluating the legitimacy of inter-agent demands. The authors position the work as a response to the growing urgency of formalizing safe behavior in autonomous systems that allocate computing power, data access, energy, and infrastructure authority.