Physix Frontier · News Briefing Card (TMTPost · Nov 7, 2026)

20 sign agent self-discipline pact; 155 apps reject Doubao screen control

KEY FACTS

On November 4, the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) led Huawei, Alibaba, Tencent and 17 other organizations in signing the Agent Development Self-Discipline Convention in Wuzhen.
On October 14, the public comment period for the Doubao mobile assistant screen-automation protocol ended, with 155 apps explicitly refusing to connect.
The refusal list includes 66 Tencent-affiliated apps, 23 Alibaba-affiliated apps, 14 Kuaishou apps and 11 Meituan apps, among them WeChat and Taobao.
Doubao operates apps on the user's behalf by simulating taps, which platforms argue bypasses interaction paths such as recommendations and advertising.
StepFun's STEPX Neo secured a Meituan errand-running partnership through an API, but Meituan's food-delivery business was not opened up.

KEY DATA

20Organizations signing the self-discipline convention

155Apps refusing screen automation

66Tencent and affiliated-ecosystem apps refusing

23Alibaba and affiliated-ecosystem apps refusing

PHYSIX OBSERVATION

The convention is a gesture; the refusal list is the real map of interests. Platforms are not opposed to AI acting on users' behalf — they fear an external agent becoming the new interaction gateway and cutting off the advertising and recommendation value chain. The dual-authorization principle hands platforms a legal veto, and opening errand-running while holding food delivery shut proves the point. For an agent to work across platforms, user consent alone is far from enough; it must negotiate interest alignment with each platform item by item.

Source: TMTPost report