A2A
Agent-to-agent protocols. The working-group landscape, the named proposals, and the tension between an interop standard and a vendor-specific orchestrator format.
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MCP and A2A — One Year Under the Linux Foundation
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.
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Protocols
MCP, A2A, and the Coming Agentic Interop Layer
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.
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