ACP Work-streams

[ismaelfaro]

Key Work-streams

1. Architecture & Core Protocol Design

Define the fundamental architecture, capabilities model, and communication patterns

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Capability-based agent discovery and communication
• Stateful vs. stateless
• Agents’ communications architectures (HTTP/WebSocket, Message Bus, Actor Inbox)
• Agent role taxonomy and hierarchies

Contributors: @matoushavlena, @matiasmolinas, @AndrewRentschler, @ismaelfaro, @psschwei, @QuantGeekDev , @reachrkr

2. Deployment & Infrastructure

Containerization, orchestration, and deployment strategies

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

Kubernetes integration and deployment patterns

• Microservice architecture implementation
• Agent lifecycle management
• Resource management and scaling

Contributors: @amitsides, @24601, @jpmorgenthal, @meetrais, @bcjteixeira, @psschwei, @matiasmolinas , @planetf1

3. Data Security & Privacy

Authentication, authorization, and data protection mechanisms

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Agent authentication & authorization & delegation, User consent management
• Capability-based security
• Control panel for agent management
• Privacy-preserving persistence

Potential Contributors: @d-a-v-i--, @macyabbey, @ramwert, @psschwei , @maceip , @sasthan

4. Protocol Implementation & Encoding

Implementation details, data formats, and transport mechanisms

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Data encoding (REST, JSON-RPC, etc.)
• Communication methods (WebSockets, HTTP, P2P)
• Streaming data between agents
• Request cancellation and persistence

Contributors: @Cenrax, @michelvdp, @RinoX1, @QuantGeekDev

5. Testing & Quality Assurance

Validation, verification, and testing of agent interactions

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Agent determinism and predictability
• Simulation environments for agent testing
• Context management validation
• Integration testing with legacy systems

Contributors: @hari-lab-github, @matiasmolinas, @QuantGeekDev, @deghislain, @planetf1, @jorgego-tech

6. MCP Integration & Compatibility

Ensuring compatibility with existing MCP ecosystem

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Cross-compatibility with MCP servers
• Leveraging existing MCP tools
• Migration paths for MCP-based implementations

Contributors: @jezekra1, @that1guy15, @QuantGeekDev, @michelvdp, @planetf1, @reachrkr

7. UI & User Experience

User interfaces and interaction

Key Topics to explore and discuss:

• Agent discovery and monitoring interfaces
• Tracking agent interactions
• User-friendly configuration options

Contributors: @anafucs , @geneknit, @JanPokorny

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We are going to continue to interconnect these initiatives with MCP, NLIP , AGNTCY

This summary coming form the previous general ACP discussion

Also you can share some more realtime news about the project in Discord

You can find our initial implementation of some of these ideas in our Open Source BeeAI platform

[ismaelfaro]

🚀 Please nominate yourself to participate/contribute in some of the work-streams.

[psschwei]

@ismaelfaro I'd also like to take part in 2. Deployment & Infrastructure

[ismaelfaro]

ACP Community call next week, April 8th, 11AM PT, 2PM EST , 8PM GTM+1

[QuantGeekDev]

Looking good and comprehensive so far. Excited to participate in this project

[devsodhirao]

i m reading and catching up. I'll likely want to volunteer as i understand more of where I can add value

[sandijean90]

When you're ready to contribute let us know and we'll add you to our contributor clubhouse on Discord!

[matiasmolinas]

Excited to contribute! Count me in for:

Architecture & Core Protocol Design

Deployment & Infrastructure

Testing & Quality Assurance

Looking forward to the call and syncing on next steps.

[sandijean90]

Hi Matias, let me know of you have any questions as you're going through the process of making your first PR. Excited to see what issue you contribute to first.

[matiasmolinas]

Thanks @sandijean90—I’ll be diving into issue i-am-bee/acp#26 (multi-channel output support) next, using it as an opportunity to explore the ACP codebase and see how I can apply some of my POC ideas. I’ll follow the CONTRIBUTING guide and share updates soon!

[24601]

Excited to contribute. Monitoring/standing by for call info, etc. I have joined the Discord as well but, you know, notification overload sometimes, so will monitor this issue unless there is somewhere else there is more discreet means of communication where sharing an email, etc, would be appropriate.

[ismaelfaro]

Next week we are going to chat about ACP in our BeeAI April Community Call Tue, Apr 08 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PDT

[planetf1]

I'd be interested in participating in:

• Deployment and Infrastructure
• MCP Interop
• Testing & Quality Assurance

[jorgego-tech]

@ismaelfaro
I would like to help with 5. Testing & Quality Assurance

[ismaelfaro]

done.

[reachrkr]

I'd be interested in getting involved on:

• Architecture & Core Protocol Design
• MCP Interop

[ismaelfaro]

done.

[maceip]

👋
I'd like to participate in Data Security & Privacy

I worked on attestable MCP using trusted execution environments and RA-TLS allowing MCP clients to verify MCP servers before connecting : https://github.com/co-browser/attestable-mcp-server

[R1N071]

Hello, just to get ready, what's the goal for tomorrow's call? Will it be on Discord? Thanks

[ismaelfaro]

We are going to review the current estatus and initial implementation of the ACP, and also chat about this work streams to continue to evolve the protocol. The meeting will be part of the BeeAI Community call, and you can participate here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3f57daea-0fd0-4f5b-9de6-262c2fa1cfd4@fcf67057-50c9-4ad4-98f3-ffca64add9e9

Any suggestion and feedback will be welcome.