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.