Your AI agents can talk to each other - but are they saying anything useful? Confluent Intelligence aims for insight

It’s becoming clearer where the industry is starting to converge on shared standards for agentic AI - Confluent has just announced support for both Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol in its Streaming Agents capability. Similar announcements have been coming from other vendors too and it highlights something important about where we are in the agentic AI maturity curve.

We're moving, slowly, from a period of everyone building their own thing to something that at least resembles an agreed-upon set of rules. The two protocols are doing distinct jobs: MCP handles how agents connect to and consume real-time data; A2A handles how agents communicate and coordinate with each other. Together, they're starting to look like the plumbing infrastructure for enterprise agentic AI.

When I spoke with Matías Cascallares at MWC this week, said that the industry right now is full of what he ...