AI AGNTCY: IoA (Internet of Agents) with ACP (Agent Connect Protocol)

predictably, after IoT ("Internet of Things") now there is IoA (Internet of AI Agents)

for "enterprise/cloud grade" AI on internet

AGNTCY.org

The AGNTCY is where we are building the Internet of Agents to be: A diverse, collaborative space to innovate, develop, and maintain software components and services for agentic workflows and multi-agent software.

AGNTCY · GitHub

The AGNTCY (pronounced “agency”), aka Internet of Agents Collective, or the Collective, is the collective of contributors and maintainers building the Internet of Agents (IoA): an open, interoperable, internet for agent-to-agent collaboration.

While very elaborate, and potentially useful, it is also "enterprise-complex": unlikely for mass-adoption.

Reminds me of HP e-speak from 25 years ago: good technology, no adoption.
HP talks up E-speak technology - CNET
Lessons from E-speak (HP Labs) PDF
Rajiv Gupta (technocrat) - Wikipedia

Building the Internet of Agents with Vijoy Pandey | The TWIML AI Podcast

VP and general manager at Outshift by Cisco 

foundational challenge for the enterprise: how do we make specialized agents from different vendors collaborate effectively? 

As companies like Salesforce, Workday, and Microsoft all develop their own agentic systems, integrating them creates a complex, probabilistic, and noisy environment, a stark contrast to the deterministic APIs of the past. 

Cisco's vision for an "Internet of Agents," a platform to manage this new reality, and its open-source implementation, AGNTCY. 

four phases of agent collaboration—discovery, composition, deployment, and evaluation

dive deep into the communication stack, from syntactic protocols like A2A, ACP, and MCP 

to the deeper semantic challenges of creating a shared understanding between agents. 

SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging), a novel transport layer designed to make agent-to-agent communication quantum-safe, real-time, and efficient for multi-modal workloads.

Outshift | Integrate and evaluate: New MCP support and observability framework from AGNTCY

AGNTCY’s Agent Connect Protocol (ACP) and MCP are complementary protocols: 

ACP enables autonomous agents to collaborate and share resources in a distributed system while 

MCP enriches individual AI models with external context to enhance their decision-making and response generation

Outshift | From concept to code: AGNTCY’S Internet of Agents is now on GitHub