Tyler-R-Kendrick/ai
skills/ai/SKILL.md
Use when working with AI agent protocols, standards, interoperability specifications, evaluation contracts, synthetic simulation data, improvement pipelines, and agent steering workflows. Covers MCP, A2A, ACP, Agent Skills, AGENTS.md, ADL, Improve, x402, AP2, MCP Apps, cagent, and learn. USE FOR: agent protocol selection, comparing MCP vs A2A vs ACP, understanding agent standards ecosystem, choosing payment protocols, choosing eval standards, choosing improvement techniques, choosing synthetic data simulation techniques, steering from user feedback DO NOT USE FOR: specific protocol, eval, or improvement implementation details (use the sub-skills: mcp, a2a, acp, improve, learn, x402, etc.)
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skillsauthnpx skillsauth add Tyler-R-Kendrick/agent-skills aiInstall this skill globally with one command. Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf.
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SKILL.md
- name:
- ai
- description:
- |
- USE FOR:
- agent protocol selection, comparing MCP vs A2A vs ACP, understanding agent standards ecosystem, choosing payment protocols, choosing eval standards, choosing improvement techniques, choosing synthetic data simulation techniques, steering from user feedback
- DO NOT USE FOR:
- specific protocol, eval, or improvement implementation details (use the sub-skills: mcp, a2a, acp, improve, learn, x402, etc.)
- license:
- MIT
- displayName:
- AI Agent Protocols & Standards
- author:
- Tyler-R-Kendrick
- compatibility:
- claude, copilot, cursor
AI Agent Protocols & Standards
Overview
This skill covers the emerging ecosystem of open standards and protocols for AI agents. These specifications define how agents discover capabilities, communicate with each other, make payments, render UI, and are described declaratively.
Protocol Landscape
| Protocol | Purpose | Maintained By | |----------|---------|---------------| | MCP | Tool integration — how agents use tools and access context | Anthropic | | A2A | Agent-to-agent communication and task delegation | Google | | ACP | REST-based agent communication (merged into A2A) | IBM / BeeAI / Linux Foundation | | Agent Skills | Skill packaging — how capabilities are discovered and loaded | Anthropic | | Improve | Agent and LLM eval contracts, synthetic simulation data, and self-improvement pipelines for prompts, code, skills, agents, harnesses, and workflows | AgentEvals / AgentV / Simula / QDC / GEPA / Trace / VISTA / SkillOpt / Agent Lightning / ResponsibleAI | | AGENTS.md | Project-level guidance for coding agents | Community | | ADL | Declarative agent definition (identity, tools, permissions) | Next Moca / Eclipse LMOS | | x402 | HTTP-native micropayments using stablecoins | Coinbase | | AP2 | Secure agent-driven commerce and purchases | Google | | MCP Apps | Rich interactive UI served by MCP servers | Anthropic | | cagent | Multi-agent runtime with YAML configuration | Docker | | learn | Feedback-to-steering workflow for generalized agent reasoning preferences | Local |
How They Relate
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Agent Definition (ADL, AGENTS.md) │
│ "What the agent is and what it can do" │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Capability Discovery (Agent Skills, MCP) │
│ "How agents find and load tools/skills" │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Agent Communication (A2A, ACP) │
│ "How agents talk to each other" │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Payments (x402, AP2) │
│ "How agents pay for services" │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ UI (MCP Apps) │
│ "How agents render interactive interfaces" │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Runtime (cagent) │
│ "How agents are orchestrated and executed" │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Choosing the Right Protocol
- Building tools for agents to call? Use MCP to expose them as tool servers.
- Packaging reusable knowledge/instructions? Use Agent Skills (SKILL.md).
- Producing eval artifacts, synthetic simulation data, or improving prompts, code, skills, agents, harnesses, or workflows from evidence? Use Improve for AgentEvals, AgentV, Agent Skills evals, ASSERT, Simula-style data design, GEPA, Trace, VISTA, SkillOpt, Agent Lightning, and eval/trace-backed loops.
- Orchestrating multiple agents? Use A2A for inter-agent communication (ACP's REST approach merged into A2A).
- Monetizing an API for agent consumption? Use x402 for micropayments.
- Enabling agent-driven purchases? Use AP2 for secure commerce flows.
- Defining agent configurations declaratively? Use ADL for portable blueprints.
- Guiding coding agents in a repo? Add an AGENTS.md file.
- Serving rich UI from an MCP server? Use MCP Apps.
- Running multi-agent systems locally? Use Docker cagent.
- Turning a user correction into durable reasoning guidance? Use learn to update
STEERING.mdand linked RDF entries.
References
- Model Context Protocol Specification
- Google A2A Protocol GitHub Repository
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