April 2026
Intermediate to advanced
322 pages
10h 16m
English
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Glossary
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
An emerging agentic protocol layer for discovery, capability exchange, and collaboration between agents
- A2P (Agent-to-Payments)
An emerging protocol layer that extends agent interactions into payments and purchases, incorporating identity, policy enforcement, and settlement
- ACP (Agent Communication Protocol)
A lightweight inter-agent messaging approach (often HTTP/JSON or JSON-RPC) intended to make agent-to-agent communication portable and standardized
- agent
A GenAI-powered component that can plan and act toward goals, often by calling tools, retrieving knowledge, and coordinating steps over time
- agent-to-tool integration explosion
The complexity that arises when many tools must be integrated with many models/agents, motivating standardized protocols like MCP
- agentic RAG
A RAG variant where autonomous agents plan, decompose, and adapt retrieval and generation steps, including multiquery and iterative querying
- agentic retrieval
A feature/pattern where an LLM generates multiple focused subqueries (often in parallel) to improve retrieval quality, then merges and reranks results
- agentic systems
Systems built from one or more agents that can reason, act, and sometimes collaborate autonomously with tools, data, and/or other agents
- AgentOps
Operational practices and tooling for running agentic systems at scale, emphasizing observability, safety, cost, and reliability for multiagent workflows
- AI accelerators
Specialized hardware (typically GPUs and related ...
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