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Model Context Protocol (MCP)
MCP is an open standard that lets AI apps connect to tools and data in one common way, so nobody has to build a custom link for every app and tool pair.
Why it matters
Job posts for agent roles now list MCP. It is the quickest way to give an assistant safe, controlled access to your files, tickets and databases.
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Agent-to-agent (A2A)
A young standard that lets AI agents from different makers hand tasks to each other and follow progress, the way colleagues would.
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Agentic AI
Agentic AI plans and takes steps on its own, using tools, instead of only answering one question at a time. It can search, decide, act and check its work.
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Context engineering
The skill of choosing what a model sees for a task: the instructions, the right documents, the memory and the tool results, and leaving out the rest.