standards
Coverage of the interop standards layer — MCP, A2A, OpenAgents, and the working groups around them. Where the specs land, what they actually say, and what the working-group politics look like from the inside.
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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.
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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