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Agent Protocol — AI Glossary

A standardized communication interface for AI agents, defining how agents expose their capabilities and exchange messages.

Overview

Agent Protocol (AI Engineer Foundation, 2023) defines a REST API standard for agent tasks: POST /agent/tasks creates a task, POST /agent/tasks/{id}/steps executes a step. Enables agent benchmarking (GAIA, SWE-Bench), orchestration frameworks to swap underlying agent implementations, and interoperability between agent SDKs.

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Topicagents
Last reviewed2026-06-24

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What is Agent Protocol?

A standardized communication interface for AI agents, defining how agents expose their capabilities and exchange messages.

What concepts are related to Agent Protocol?

Closely related concepts include a2a protocol, agent, orchestrator.