AG-UI Protocol - AG-UI is an open, lightweight, event-based protocol that standardizes how AI agents connect to user-facing applications
Agent Client Protocol (ACP) - The Agent Client Protocol (ACP) is an open standard, originally published by Zed Industries in August 2025, that standardizes communication between code editors (interactive programs for view...
Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol - The Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol is a standard for agent interoperability launched by Google, focusing on direct agent-to-agent communication and coordination
Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) - The Linux Foundation announced the formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) on December 9, 2025
AI-Driven Development Life Cycle (AIDLC) - AIDLC (AI-Driven Development Life Cycle) is an open-source, methodology-first framework from AWS Labs that guides AI coding agents through structured, human-approved phases of software development
Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) - The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) is a not-for-profit organization focused on defining and promoting best practices for secure cloud and, increasingly, AI computing
Kubernetes Agent Sandbox - Agent Sandbox is a Kubernetes-native standard, proposed in Google's Open Source Blog (November 2025) and launched as a formal subproject of Kubernetes SIG Apps at KubeCon Atlanta (November 2025), f...
Model Context Protocol (MCP) - The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open protocol built by Anthropic that standardizes how applications provide context to Large Language Models (LLMs)
Open Knowledge Format (OKF) - The Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is an open specification published by Google Cloud's Data Analytics, BI, and Database teams (authored by Sam McVeety and Amir Hormati) on June 12, 2026, at versi...
OpenSpec - OpenSpec is an open-source, lightweight framework for spec-driven development (SDD) with AI coding assistants, developed by Fission AI