The Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) is a formal framework designed to enable seamless interaction among autonomous AI agents. ACP specifies a set of message types, headers, and payload conventions, along with agent discovery and registry mechanisms. It supports conversation tracking, version negotiation, and standardized error reporting. By providing language-agnostic JSON schemas and transport-agnostic bindings, ACP reduces integration complexity and allows developers to compose scalable, interoperable multi-agent systems for use in customer service bots, robotic swarms, IoT orchestration, and collaborative AI workflows.

Fetch.ai’s Autonomous Economic Agents (AEA) Framework is an open-source Python SDK and CLI toolset for creating modular, autonomous agents that can negotiate, transact, and collaborate in decentralized environments. It includes scaffolding commands to generate agent projects, templates for protocols and skills, connection modules to integrate with multiple ledgers (Ethereum, Cosmos, etc.), contract interfaces, behavior and decision‐making components, testing and simulation utilities, and a publishing mechanism to distribute agents on the Open Economic Framework network. Developers leverage its modular architecture to rapidly prototype digital workers for DeFi trading, data marketplaces, IoT coordination, and supply chain automation.