Meeting Notes - 11.21.25

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Attendees:
• Luca Muscariello - Cisco
• Andras Jaky - Cisco
• Arpad Csepi - Cisco
• Jerry Franklin - Independent
• Jodee Varney - Cisco
• Laszlo Gecse - Cisco
• Michael Clifford - Red Hat
• Morgan Foster - Red Hat
• Paul Cayet - Oracle
• Tibor Kircsi - Cisco
• Jason Bonafide - Dell
• Andrew Doellman - Cisco

AGNTCY + Kagenti Alignment
• Both teams are addressing the same lifecycle gaps from opposite ends (build-time vs runtime).
• Kagenti provides a Kubernetes operator handling agent builds, identity, and card routing.
• AGNTCY offers mature build-time pipelines (OCI, SBOM, provenance, distribution).
• Agreement to collaborate instead of duplicating work.
• Kagenti will organize a workshop demo for AGNTCY.

Open Problem: Binding Agent Cards to Workloads
• No standard today for securely binding a signed agent card to a running workload.
• Requires late-binding metadata, replay protection, and workload identity mapping.
• Directory may serve as part of the eventual trust model.

Agent Card Standard
• Cross-project Agent Card spec emerging (Google + Anthropic).
• Intent to unify card formats across A2A and MCP.
• Still early - governance and runtime binding are unresolved.

Agent Spec Update
• Specifies agent structure, skills, and workflows.
• Next version: runtime framework, protocol (A2A/MCP), environment variables in OASF records.
• Enables deployment, behavioral search, multi-agent patterns (manager–worker, swarm).
• Potential Kubernetes alignment.

Distributed / Multi-Agent Patterns
• Need shared context, specialization, and parallelization patterns.
• Collaboration opportunities: identity inheritance, secure forking, workload discovery.

Demonstration
• MCP used to access local Directory node.
• Five OASF records created, validated, pushed.
• Search/pull operations shown.

Testbed
• Internal testbed live (TSC companies only).
• Node deployment/peering docs coming.
• Policies for external nodes and enterprise boundaries in development.

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