Your AI Agent Is Useless If It Can’t Talk to Others

AI Agents Can’t Work Together — But the Linux Foundation Just Changed That

AI agents are evolving fast — they can book your meetings, write your reports, even run workflows on autopilot. But here’s the catch: they don’t talk to each other.

Each company is building its own AI agent in a walled garden. No shared language. No cross-platform support. No collaboration.

Cisco saw the chaos coming — and open-sourced a solution called AGNTCY (pronounced “agency”). Now, it’s been donated to the Linux Foundation, with backing from Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle, and Red Hat.

This isn’t just another protocol — it’s the Internet of Agents in the making.

Instead of battling over who owns the tech, AGNTCY lays out the foundation for secure, open, and scalable agent collaboration. Think DNS for agents. Identity systems with cryptographic verification. Secure messaging with human-in-the-loop support. Real-time visibility into multi-agent behavior.

AGNTCY doesn’t just connect agents from Cisco. It also plays nice with other standards like Agent2Agent (A2A) and Anthropic’s MCP, acting as a universal middle layer so agents can discover, message, and monitor each other across platforms.

This could be the TCP/IP moment for agentic AI — and it’s happening under neutral governance, open to all.

AI isn’t just about smarter models anymore.
It’s about building the infrastructure that lets them work together.

If you’re building AI tools, you’re no longer competing on raw intelligence.
You’re competing on interoperability.

The future won’t be about one agent winning.
It’ll be about all agents working together.