The rise of the 'internet of agents' and why it changes everything

AI agents are moving beyond single enterprises to operate across company boundaries, exposing a critical coordination gap: agents built on different frameworks lack shared identity, messaging standards and trust models. AGNTCY, an open-source project backed by Cisco, Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat under Linux Foundation governance, is emerging as infrastructure to enable secure agent-to-agent workflows across organisational boundaries.

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