Everyone Has an AI Agent Now, But They Still Can't Talk to Each Other

The agent gold rush is in full swing. Every major tech company has shipped one. Startups are building them by the hundreds. Open-source frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, and AutoGen have made it trivially easy to spin up an agent that can browse the web, write code, or manage your calendar.

And yet, if you ask your coding agent to hand off a task to your scheduling agent, it stares at you blankly. If you want two agents from different vendors to coordinate on a project, you're looking at custom glue code, brittle API wrappers, and a lot of prayer.

We have a thousand agents. We have zero agent society.

The Island Problem

Think about how agents work today. Each one is a self-contained loop: perceive → think → act. They connect to the outside world through tool calls — API endpoints, browser automation, file system access. When an agent needs information from another system, it calls an API. When it needs to trigger an action, it calls another API.