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MCP, A2A, ACP: the agent-protocol landscape
Three protocols showed up to standardise agentic AI — MCP for agent-to-tool, A2A for agent-to-agent, ACP for lightweight agent messaging. One of them is already dead.
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MCP: the protocol that became as common as a web server
The Model Context Protocol went from an Anthropic side-project in November 2024 to 97 million monthly SDK downloads by March 2026. Here is what it actually is — JSON-RPC, three primitives, a client-server split — why it won by turning M×N integrations into M+N, and why just a protocol...
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POSIX, the standard nobody reads
POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface, plus an X added at the IEEE's request. Richard Stallman coined the name in 1988. The standard codifies the Unix interface every modern operating system claims to implement and almost none follow strictly.
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