Agent Interaction
ACP
Agent Communication Protocol
Foundation
Global
Linux Foundation
Since 2025
An open protocol for agents to discover each other and exchange tasks, launched by IBM Research in 2025 for the BeeAI platform and donated to the Linux Foundation with it.
Listed for completeness rather than as a target: the effort has been folding into A2A, so new work should look there first.
At a glance
- Category
- Agent Interaction
- Jurisdiction
- Global
- Governance
- Linux Foundation
- Status
- Merged into A2A under the Linux Foundation (2025)
- First released
- 2025
Links
Related frameworks
Other entries under Agent Interaction.
See ACP in context
Open the interactive Data Landscape for Regulation to compare ACP against every other framework, or grab the raw JSON. Certification schemes and editions move — follow the source links before relying on this page.