AI Agent Protocols in 2026: Choose the Boundary Before the Standard
MCP, A2A, and ACP did not converge into one universal protocol. Their current roles make sense once agent systems are divided by interaction boundary.
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MCP, A2A, and ACP did not converge into one universal protocol. Their current roles make sense once agent systems are divided by interaction boundary.
ARD can help agents find capabilities across organizations, but discovery metadata must remain outside the trusted execution boundary.
Agent stacks should be selected layer by layer, with explicit contracts for state, tools, memory, evaluation, and recovery.
Pierre Pureur and Kurt Bittner correctly place decisions at the centre of architecture; their importance follows from reversal cost and blast radius.