UKLSP UK Local Services Protocol v0.1-draft

The open standard that makes UK local services bookable by AI agents.

Retail got its agent protocols. Local services — the gas engineers, electricians and inspectors every UK property depends on — got nothing. UKLSP is the missing layer: one manifest, one booking flow, machine-verifiable credentials.

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What is UKLSP? UKLSP (UK Local Services Protocol) is an open specification for describing UK local service providers — coverage, pricing, statutory credentials and live availability — so AI assistants can discover, quote and book them directly. Spec text is CC BY 4.0; schemas and reference code are MIT.

Why does this exist?

Agentic commerce protocols now let AI assistants buy retail products end to end. But when someone asks an assistant to "book a gas safety certificate for my rental in Leeds", there is no structured supply for the agent to transact with — only websites built for human eyeballs. UKLSP defines that supply layer: a provider manifest an agent can read, a quote it can trust, and a booking endpoint it can call.

The three certification levels

Level 1 · Discoverable

MANIFEST + IDENTITY

A valid UKLSP manifest: who the provider is, what they do, which postcode districts they cover.

Level 2 · Quotable

PRICE + CREDENTIALS

Every capability carries a machine-readable price model and the statutory credentials it requires, with register references.

Level 3 · Bookable

LIVE SLOTS + ENDPOINT

A live booking endpoint with server-authoritative slots. An agent can complete the whole job in one flow.

Built from real compliance work

The first vertical is landlord compliance — CP12 gas safety, EICR, EPC, fire door inspection, PAT, legionella — because it is recurring, deadline-driven and legally mandated: exactly the work busy landlords and letting agents most want an assistant to just handle. The spec's extension model adds further trades as data, not forks.

Status: v0.1-draft, open for implementer feedback. The reference implementation, certification harness and three fictional demo listings (clearly marked demo:true) are available now.

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The specification

Core objects, transport bindings, conformance rules.

Certification

The three levels, the harness, and the badge rules.

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