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Why Standard Protocols Matter for AI Agents

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When building agents that need to operate across Slack, Gmail, Databases, and internal APIs, every new integration felt like re-inventing the wheel.

Different APIs, different schemas, different auth patterns. 😩

Standardizing interaction through something like Model Context Protocol (MCP) helped me abstract away all those differences β€” one interaction model for all tools.

I believe standardized interfaces will be crucial if we want truly capable, cross-platform AI agents.

What do you think? Is the future of agent tooling in standard protocols or in custom integration layers?
Would love to debate this!