interop
The interop layer of the agentic stack: the protocols that let agents call tools, hand off to each other, and accumulate state across vendor boundaries.
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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.
MCPA2A
Standards
MCP Turns One: What the Protocol Actually Shipped vs What We Wanted
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.
MCPstandards
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