Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What changed on 20 August A2A and MCP now answer to the same body. On 20 August 2026, Google's Agent2Agent protocol formally joined the Agentic AI Foundation, which is directed by the Linux Foundation and already counts Anthropic's Model Context Protocol among its founding projects. Axios reported the move on 17 August. The stack is two layers, not a field of competing drafts. MCP standardises the vertical integration between an agent and its tools and resources. A2A standardises the horizontal one — agents talking to other agents. The membership number is the real signal. AAIF grew from 49 members to more than 250 in under a year. Platinum signatories include AWS, Anthropic, Block, Bloomberg, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI. Governance is necessary, not sufficient. A neutral…
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