Industry experts warn MCP and A2A alone won’t scale AI agents

Scaling enterprise AI agents requires building layers of capabilities on top of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A), according to industry experts. While MCP standardizes how agents access external tools and data sources, and A2A standardizes how independent agents collaborate, organizations must additionally implement robust identity management, context layers, business process re-engineering, and agenticops to overcome production roadblocks. Open article →