MCP
The Model Context Protocol. Its design choices, its current adopters, its weaknesses, and the field of products being built against it.
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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.
MCPA2A
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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