AGNTCY

An open-source 'Internet of Agents' infrastructure project — originally from Cisco — providing agent discovery, identity, messaging and observability across vendors.

term

AGNTCY

category

protocols

short_def

An open-source 'Internet of Agents' infrastructure project — originally from Cisco — providing agent discovery, identity, messaging and observability across vendors.

long_def

Open-sourced by Cisco in March 2025 (with LangChain and Galileo) and welcomed by the Linux Foundation on 29 July 2025 with Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members. AGNTCY supplies cross-framework infrastructure: agent discovery via the Open Agent Schema Framework (OASF), cryptographically verifiable identity, multi-modal messaging and end-to-end observability.

see_also

a2a mcp agent-identity

etymology_origin

Open-sourced by Cisco (with LangChain and Galileo) in March 2025; welcomed by the Linux Foundation on 29 July 2025 with Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members.

related_to

a2a mcp agent-identity ucp

contrast_with

Unlike A2A, a single agent-to-agent communication protocol, AGNTCY is a broader infrastructure stack — discovery, identity, messaging and observability — meant to span multiple agent frameworks and protocols rather than define one wire format.

example

The Linux Foundation welcomed the AGNTCY project on 29 July 2025, with Cisco, Dell, Google Cloud, Oracle and Red Hat as formative members.

source

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-welcomes-the-agntcy-project-to-standardize-open-multi-agent-system-infrastructure-and-break-down-ai-agent-silos

status

emerging

why_it_matters

AGNTCY is one of the main neutral infrastructure bets for multi-agent interoperability; a service joining the Internet of Agents may register its identity and capabilities through AGNTCY's framework.

sameAs

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bridge_entity

protocols/interop/agntcy

last_verified

2026-06-15

md_twin

/glossary/agntcy.md

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