Pattern
ACP — Agent Communication Protocol (AGNTCY)
Provide an alternative to A2A under Linux Foundation governance, with a multi-vendor consortium (Cisco, IBM, LangChain, Galileo) developing both the wire protocol and the surrounding ecosystem services (directory, identity, observability standards).
Classification — Open-governance peer-agent communication protocol.
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