AGNTCY is building the Internet of Agents to be accessible for all, focusing on innovation, development, and maintenance of software components and services for agentic workflows and multi-agent applications.
Discover:
1. Agent directory
- Registry for agent publishing and discovery
- Tracks reputation and quality
2. Open agent schema framework
- Standard metadata format for agent capabilities
- Verification for agent providers
- Specification at github.com/agntcy/oasf
Compose:
1. Agent connect protocol and SDK
- Standardized agent communication across frameworks
- Manages message passing, state, and context
- Specification at github.com/agntcy/acp-spec
What could these look like in action? A developer can find suitable agents in the directory (using OASF) and enable their communication with the agent connect protocol, regardless of frameworks.
AGNTCY is an open-source collective building infrastructure for AI agents to collaborate, led by Cisco, LangChain, Galileo, and other contributors. The initiative aims to create an open, interoperable foundation for agentic AI systems to work together seamlessly across different frameworks and vendors.
AGNTCY plans to develop key components such as an agent directory, an open agent schema framework, and an agent connect protocol to facilitate this interoperability.
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