Agent Protocols

Agentic AI is an exciting extension of the Large Language Model (LLM) and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models, but the capacity to make them interoperable is not going to happen on its own. The Agent Protocol is an OpenAPI-compatible specification for describing an API to interact with Agents implemented by a variety of participants. It provides a standard model for interacting with existing platforms and agents that have been deployed to them. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has quickly gained attention and provides some additional capabilities for coordinating between agentic participants.

What else could we hope for? We'll talk about that too.

This talk will introduce these protocols, discuss existing and emerging implementations, and talk about next steps in the field of interoperable agent systems.

Agenda

• Introduction
• The Agent Protocol
• Model Context Protocol
• What Could Be

About Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.

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