protocol

Cloudflare is working with major browsers to create a new privacy-first protocol for the global internet.

The article explains the new HTTP QUERY method defined in RFC 10008, which addresses limitations of GET and POST for complex queries by providing a standard, safe, and idempotent method with a request body.

A new protocol called Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD), backed by Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Nvidia, and Salesforce, aims to standardize how AI agents discover and use tools and services across enterprise systems, enabling agents to autonomously find and query resources from different silos.

Explains why the concept of 'instances' from Mastodon/ActivityPub does not apply to ATProto (Bluesky's protocol), clarifying that hosting and aggregation are separate in ATProto's architecture.

ADP (Agent Discovery Protocol) has been accepted into the ISE formal review queue, a significant milestone in the path toward potential adoption as a recognized standard.

A Hacker News user asks if anyone is using Google's A2A agent-to-agent protocol, noting confusion six months ago and the rise of MCP, but now seeing potential for agent interaction.

This paper presents a validated VLM-judge protocol for evaluating single-image-to-3D mesh quality, showing that cheap proxies like render-CLIP and geometry statistics fail to reliably track perceived quality.

The Looks protocol uses appearance as a visual address, allowing people who can see you nearby to send messages without revealing personal information.

USTPS is a secure UDP transport protocol that adds AEAD encryption, prioritizes speed over congestion control, and provides unordered reliable delivery with selective retransmission, currently in beta.

A developer reverse-engineers the proprietary Creative Sound Blaster Katana V2X soundbar USB protocol to control it from Linux, documenting the process of capturing traffic, deobfuscating firmware, and analyzing commands.

EvoMap introduces GEP (Genome Evolution Protocol), a network protocol enabling agents to convert successful strategies into genes and capsules for self-evolution, reducing repeated exploration.

This paper introduces a deliberative curation protocol for multi-agent knowledge bases, addressing governance gaps such as agent statelessness and sycophancy. It evaluates the protocol via simulation, showing improved resilience under adversarial conditions.

This arXiv paper presents a protocol for evaluating ChatGPT's ability to generate and verify biomedical associations using a RAG-enabled, cross-model majority voting workflow to address hallucination and ontology limitations.

The article explores whether the Model Context Protocol (MCP) effectively reduces integration work for AI agents by standardizing agent-tool communication, comparing native MCP integration in Evose to manual wiring in other stacks like LangGraph and CrewAI.

Describes the LAC-Protocol for handling concurrent write collisions in local-first multi-agent systems, using lock-state separation and avoidance caching to prevent data loss and token waste.

This paper introduces the Foundation Protocol, a graph-first coordination layer designed to enable reliable multi-agent collaboration, economic exchange, and accountability in an emerging human-AI society.

A retrospective look at the Gnutella peer-to-peer protocol, its rise to mainstream adoption, and its continued existence today despite the disappearance of the world that spawned it.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, an SDK generation pipeline company that is used by both OpenAI and Gemini and also possesses the most mature MCP Server tool stack. This move allows Anthropic to simultaneously control the MCP protocol and the mainstream implementation toolchain, potentially affecting competitors' willingness to participate.

The article asks about cross-server authorization challenges when multiple MCP servers (e.g., Gmail, Github, Slack) are used together in an AI agent session, and whether a dedicated authz layer is needed beyond per-server OAuth.

DuckDB introduces 'Quack', a new client-server protocol that enables DuckDB instances to communicate via HTTP, supporting concurrent writers and remote access while maintaining simplicity and performance.