@timoreilly: About time. Standardized protocols are the road back to user empowerment > platform empowerment.
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Bret Taylor announced Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard developed by Meta and Sierra along with partners including Shopify, Stripe, Walmart, and Genesys, defining how personal AI agents interact with businesses. Tim O'Reilly praised the move as a step toward user empowerment over platform lock-in.
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About time. Standardized protocols are the road back to user empowerment > platform empowerment.
Bret Taylor (@btaylor): Today we’re announcing Personal Agent Protocol — an open standard @Meta and @SierraPlatform are developing along with industry partners at @Genesys, @instinct, @RocketOTD, @Shopify, @stripe, and @Walmart. It will help define how personal agents interact with businesses and is
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@oviniciuslana: I couldn't understand the need to have a Personal Agent Protocol when one can work with an MCP with access control. By …
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@wathba_sa: An open standard that defines how smart agents shop on behalf of your customers! @SierraPlatform, led by @btaylor, has …
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@changgaowei: Good summary. The customer decides what the agent may do, the company decides what it is allowed to do, and one file at…
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@yatinbhalla42: Sierra and Meta proposed the Personal Agent Protocol, backed by Walmart, Shopify and Stripe. The key idea is the permis…
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