Sources

Every source, with its date.

63 sources. We read each one before we cite it, and we record the date of the check.

• A2A project on GitHub

  A2A Protocol Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK)

  Checked 2026-10-07

• A2A Protocol

  A2A and MCP

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Agent Skills

  Agent Skills Overview

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Agent Skills

  Client Showcase

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

  Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

  Published 2025-12-09, checked 2026-10-07

• Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

  A2A joins AAIF’s open agentic stack

  Published 2026-08-17, checked 2026-10-07

• AGENTS.md

  One AGENTS.md works across many agents

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

  Make agents a reality with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: now generally available

  Published 2025-10-13, checked 2026-10-21

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Prescriptive Guidance

  Focus area 2: Design for composability and collaboration

  No date on the page, checked 2026-10-07

• Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)

  How 100 enterprise CIOs are building and buying gen AI in 2025

  Published 2025-06-10, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  Building effective agents

  Published 2024-12-19, checked 2026-10-07

• Anthropic

  Equipping agents for the real world with Agent Skills

  Published 2025-10-16, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  Effective context engineering for AI agents

  Published 2025-09-29, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  Demystifying evals for AI agents

  Published 2026-01-09, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  How we built our multi-agent research system

  Published 2025-06-13, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  Writing effective tools for AI agents

  Published 2025-09-11, checked 2026-10-21

• Anthropic

  Donating MCP to the Agentic AI Foundation

  Published 2025-12-09, checked 2026-10-21

• arXiv

  Cemri and others, “Why do multi-agent LLM systems fail?”

  Published 2025-03-17, checked 2026-10-21

• Atlan

  What Is Agent Composability?

  Published 2026-09-11, updated 2026-09-21, checked 2026-10-07

• Bell System Technical Journal (transcription by Dan Luu)

  M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague, “UNIX Time-Sharing System: Foreword”, volume 57, number 6

  Published July–August 1978, checked 2026-10-21

• Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) blog

  The shift from models to compound AI systems

  Published 2024-02-18, checked 2026-10-21

• ChatGPT Learn

  ChatGPT and Codex documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Claude Code Docs

  How Claude remembers your project: AGENTS.md

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Claude Code Docs

  Claude Code documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Cloudflare

  AI Gateway overview

  Updated 2026-04-20, checked 2026-10-21

• Cognition

  Don’t build multi-agents

  Published 2025-06-12, checked 2026-10-21

• Cognition

  Multi-agents: what’s actually working

  Published 2026-04-22, checked 2026-10-21

• Communications of the ACM

  D. L. Parnas, “On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules”, volume 15, number 12

  Published December 1972, checked 2026-10-21

• Cursor Docs

  Cursor documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Epoch AI

  LLM inference prices have fallen rapidly but unequally across tasks

  Published 2025-03-12, checked 2026-10-21

• Gemini CLI documentation

  Remote Subagents

  Checked 2026-10-07

• GitHub Docs

  GitHub Copilot documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Google Research

  Towards a science of scaling agent systems: when and why agent systems work

  Published 2026-01-28, checked 2026-10-21

• goose blog (Block)

  MCP in the enterprise: real world adoption at Block

  Published 2025-04-21, checked 2026-10-21

• goose documentation

  goose documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• InfoQ (talk by LinkedIn engineers)

  Lessons learned from building LinkedIn’s first agent: Hiring Assistant

  Published 2025-12-31, checked 2026-10-21

• Invariant Labs

  MCP security notification: tool poisoning attacks

  Published 2025-04-01, checked 2026-10-21

• iTWire, reporting Forrester's 2026 predictions

  Forrester 2026 predictions for AI and tech leadership

  Published 2025-10-10, checked 2026-10-21

• martinfowler.com

  James Lewis and Martin Fowler, “Microservices”

  Published 2014-03-25, checked 2026-10-21

• Menlo Ventures

  2025 mid-year LLM market update: foundation model landscape and economics

  Published 2025-07-31, checked 2026-10-21

• Microsoft Learn (Azure Architecture Center)

  AI agent orchestration patterns

  Updated 2026-09-21, checked 2026-10-21

• Model Context Protocol

  Extension Support Matrix

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Model Context Protocol

  MCP Apps

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Model Context Protocol

  Skills

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Model Context Protocol

  The MCP Registry

  Checked 2026-10-07

• Model Context Protocol

  Authorization (specification version 2025-06-18)

  Published 2025-06-18, checked 2026-10-21

• Model Context Protocol on GitHub

  MCP Conformance Test Framework

  Checked 2026-10-07

• OpenAI Agents SDK documentation

  Agent orchestration

  No date on the page, checked 2026-10-21

• OpenAI Agents SDK documentation

  Handoffs

  No date on the page, checked 2026-10-21

• OpenAI Developers

  OpenAI developer documentation

  Checked 2026-10-07

• OpenTelemetry

  Generative AI semantic conventions

  No date on the page, checked 2026-10-21

• Rich Sutton

  The bitter lesson

  Published 2019-03-13, checked 2026-10-21

• Shopify Engineering

  Building production-ready agentic systems: lessons from Shopify Sidekick

  Published 2025-08-26, checked 2026-10-21

• Simon Willison

  The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication

  Published 2025-06-16, checked 2026-10-21

• Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI)

  The 2025 AI Index Report

  Published April 2025, checked 2026-10-21

• Stripe

  Minions: Stripe's one-shot, end-to-end coding agents

  Published 2026-02-09, checked 2026-10-21

• The GitHub Blog

  Meet the GitHub MCP Registry: The fastest way to discover MCP Servers

  Published 2025-09-16, updated 2025-09-18, checked 2026-10-07

• The GitHub Blog

  Introducing Agent HQ: any agent, any way you work

  Published 2025-10-28, checked 2026-10-21

• The Linux Foundation

  Linux Foundation Welcomes the AGNTCY Project to Standardize Open Multi-Agent System Infrastructure and Break Down AI Agent Silos

  Published 2025-07-29, checked 2026-10-07

• University of California, Irvine

  Roy T. Fielding, dissertation, chapter 5: Representational State Transfer (REST)

  Published 2000, checked 2026-10-21

• Vercel

  Vercel AI Gateway: models, routing, and observability

  Updated 2026-09-14, checked 2026-10-21

• Visual Studio Code documentation

  Build with AI in VS Code

  Checked 2026-10-07

• W.Media, reporting a Gartner press release

  Over 40 percent of agentic AI projects could face the axe by end of 2027: Gartner

  Published 2025-06-25, checked 2026-10-21