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Coverage of MCP, A2A, and the emerging agentic interop layer.
Anthropic donated MCP. Google donated A2A. The substrate of agentic AI now lives under a neutrally-governed foundation. A reading of what that means architecturally, what it means politically, and what the next twelve months of standards work probably looks like.
Two protocol efforts are quietly defining how agents will talk to each other and to the rest of the world. A reading of what they are, what they leave open, and where the lines are still being drawn.
A year after Anthropic published the Model Context Protocol, the spec has more clients than tools, more reference servers than production servers, and a clearer set of unfinished problems than most observers want to admit.