Chapter 13: Agent Protocols in Production¶
The compliance officer asked three questions: "Who authorized this action? What was the delegation chain? Can we reconstruct it after an incident?" The architect said: "We log everything." The compliance officer said: "Logging what happened is not the same as proving who was authorized to make it happen."
What this chapter covers¶
- Building production MCP servers -- thin wrappers, gateways, catalogs, enterprise auth
- A2A across team boundaries -- Agent Cards, task lifecycle, multi-turn negotiation
- The identity gap -- why MCP and A2A solve connectivity but not accountability
- AIP deep dive -- delegation chains, scope attenuation, the MCP auth proxy
- Complex use cases -- financial services, healthcare, supply chain
- Production pitfalls -- server sprawl, shadow connections, delegation debugging
- The adoption sequence -- when to add each protocol layer
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