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Protocols and standards for communication, tool use and governance.
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2025
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Dec 17, 2025
OpenSandbox
OpenSandbox is a general-purpose sandbox platform for AI applications, contributed by Alibaba to the Agentic AI Foundation. It offers multi-language SDKs, a unified sandbox API, Docker and Kubernetes runtimes, and a protocol that lets teams plug in custom runtimes.
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Sep 29, 2025
Agentic Commerce Protocol
An open standard released by OpenAI with Stripe in September 2025 that lets AI agents, people and businesses complete purchases together, and the basis of Instant Checkout in ChatGPT.
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Sep 17, 2025
Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
An open protocol announced by Google on 17 September 2025 for securely initiating and settling payments carried out by AI agents across platforms, using signed Mandates as verifiable proof of a user's instructions.
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2025
Agent2Agent Protocol
Google's 2025 open protocol for discovery, communication, and collaboration across agents from different vendors or frameworks.
2023
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Nov 6, 2023
GPT Actions
GPT Actions let a custom GPT call external APIs, turning a user's request into the JSON input an API needs. Introduced by OpenAI on 6 November 2023, they grew out of the plugins beta and rely on OpenAPI schemas plus authentication settings.
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Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging (SLIM)
SLIM (Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging) is a secure transport protocol for agent traffic. It carries A2A, MCP and SLIMRPC over one encrypted overlay, lets agents connect outbound and be reached by name, and publishes SDKs for six languages.