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i-am-bee/acp

Open protocol for communication between AI agents, applications, and humans. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/i-am-bee/acp · homepage · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) · archived observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

10/100

  • Activity 38
  • Release rhythm 44
  • Longevity 36

Flags: archived

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: 0
  • age_days: 517
  • days_rel: 377
  • days_push: 373
  • n_releases_24m: 46

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1018 stars · 124 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) is an open protocol with Python and TypeScript SDKs for enabling AI agents built on different frameworks to communicate, coordinate, and discover each other via a RESTful API. It has been merged into the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol under the Linux Foundation, so new adopters should use A2A.

Use cases

  • connect ai agents built with different frameworks
  • make my agent discoverable over a rest api
  • stream agent responses between services
  • expose my agent as an mcp tool
  • run long-running multi-agent tasks with shared state
  • build an agent server in python or typescript

When to choose

  • you need agent-to-agent interoperability across frameworks like LangChain, CrewAI, or BeeAI
  • you want a REST-based, runtime-free agent invocation protocol with streaming and session support
  • you need an MCP adapter to expose ACP agents as MCP tools
  • you want an open-governance protocol backed by the Linux Foundation

When to avoid

  • you are starting a new project - ACP has merged into A2A and is in maintenance
  • you only need to connect a single LLM to tools and resources (use MCP instead)
  • you need a full agent orchestration framework rather than a communication protocol

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

agent-framework rpc api-framework sdk mcp large-language-models apis developer-tools python cross-platform agent-communication-protocol agent-interoperability a2a beeai rest-api multi-agent-systems linux-foundation merged-into-a2a ai-agents nodejs docker

10 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
i-am-bee/acpmain10

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