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Agents2026-06-17 · source-backed
On June 16–17, Google extended its A2A interoperability push with a standard for how agents discover available resources and tools, the same week Microsoft's Work IQ went GA with A2A plus remote MCP. It's a multi-vendor race to standardize the plumbing. Design against the interop specs, A2A, MCP, resource discovery, rather than any single SDK.
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If you wrote an MCP server before July, it's on a protocol shape the maintainers have already removed. Not deprecated-with-a-migration-window. Removed from the spec. MCP lead maintainers David Soria Parra and Den Delimarsky published an updated roadmap on August 22, and the re...
Google Labs launched a Stitch 2.0 update on March 18 that does something nobody else has done: it creates a structured, portable, agent-readable handoff format between design tools and coding agents. The feature is called DESIGN.md — a markdown file that encodes design system...
AAIF will govern MCP, Block's Goose, AGENTS.md, and Google's A2A under vendor-neutral open governance. AWS, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow are participating. Both inter-agent communication and tool access protocols now have neutral stewardship. Linux...
Six clients. One manifest. Zero vendor lock. Vercel published Agent Plugins 1.0.0 on August 6, an openly licensed spec that bundles Agent Skills and MCP servers behind a single portable manifest. The shape is deliberately boring: a plugin.json requiring only schemaVersion and...
Completes a four-language SDK family (Python, TypeScript, Java, Go) — all model-agnostic with native A2A and MCP interoperability. First multi-language agent SDK with full protocol support across all variants. Source
- Source: Google Cloud Blog - Category: pattern - Date: 2026-02-12 Agent2Agent protocol reaches v0.3 with gRPC support, security card signing, extended Python SDK. Now governed by Linux Foundation with 150+ organizations. Google launched an AI Agent Marketplace for A2A-compati...
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