AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers

Cisco's Agntcy project is the latest AI framework to find refuge at the Linux Foundation.

Developed by Cisco in collaboration with LangChain and Galileo, the Agntcy project bills itself as the "internet of agents" as it’s designed to facilitate discovery and identification of the software bots, messaging among them, and observability of their actions.

The idea here is that developers will need secure tools to connect agents from different vendors, regardless of what frameworks, tool calling paradigms, or communications protocols the software uses.

"Building the foundational infrastructure for the internet of agents requires community ownership, not vendor control," Vijoy Pandey, SVP of Cisco's Outshift division said in a canned statement. "The Linux Foundation ensures this critical infrastructure remains neutral and accessible to everyone building multi-agent systems."

If all that sounds familiar, that's because Agntcy is far from the first agentic framework or protocol the Linux Foundation has taken on.

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