2025-12
MCP handed to a foundation
Anthropic donated the tool-connection protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation. Around 97M monthly SDK downloads and 9,400+ public servers — the de facto standard.
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Autonomous agents
A model used to answer a question. Now it gets assigned a job: it plans the steps, opens the tools it needs, fixes its own mistakes and comes back hours later with a result.
The main front of 2026. The reliability threshold for long tasks has finally started to give, and this is where autonomy first turns into money.
Status
TypeBranches
Marker
What exists today9
Researched
2026-04
A2A 1.0
The agent-to-agent protocol reached a stable release with signed agent cards.
2026-07-09
GPT-5.6 Sol
A flagship aimed at agentic work in code, biology and cybersecurity.
2026-07
Long tasks cross the threshold
Error recovery, state handling and verification turn agents into a repeatable process.
In progress
сейчас
Computer use
The agent works a mouse and keyboard where no API exists — the broadest and most fragile way to act.
сейчас
40% of applications by year end
Gartner's projection for enterprise applications containing task-specific agents.
Planned
в планах
Liability for actions
Who pays when an agent wires money to the wrong place. Without an answer, agents stay away from real accounts.
в планах
Teams of agents
Several specialised agents under one lead — works in demos, falls apart on long tasks.
Distant horizons
впереди
The agent as an employee
Not a tool inside someone's app but a participant with its own access, budget and reporting.
Branches off
To the line