Collaborative Agentic AI Needs Interoperability Across Ecosystems
This addresses the issue of interoperability for developers and industries relying on collaborative agentic AI, but it is incremental as it builds on existing standards and infrastructure.
The paper tackles the problem of fragmented and incompatible ecosystems in collaborative agentic AI by proposing interoperability through minimal standards, resulting in the development of Web of Agents as a foundational architecture to prevent ecosystem fragmentation.
Collaborative agentic AI is projected to transform entire industries by enabling AI-powered agents to autonomously perceive, plan, and act within digital environments. Yet, current solutions in this field are all built in isolation, and we are rapidly heading toward a landscape of fragmented, incompatible ecosystems. In this position paper, we argue that interoperability, achieved by the adoption of minimal standards, is essential to ensure open, secure, web-scale, and widely-adopted agentic ecosystems. To this end, we devise a minimal architectural foundation for collaborative agentic AI, named Web of Agents, which is composed of four components: agent-to-agent messaging, interaction interoperability, state management, and agent discovery. Web of Agents adopts existing standards and reuses existing infrastructure where possible. With Web of Agents, we take the first but critical step toward interoperable agentic systems and offer a pragmatic path forward before ecosystem fragmentation becomes the norm.