Standards

Most of what makes software work together is agreed in public. MCP lets an agent reach tools and data, and A2A lets agents talk to one another. Those agreements are why one agent can work with another company's software without either side asking permission.

Writing on this topic looks at the step those standards leave open: how a moment of real life, a conversation, an appointment or a decision, is recorded, protected and handed to whatever remembers it. Today every capture device does that step its own way, into its own cloud, under its own rules.

It covers what an open standard for that step would need to be trusted: consent checked before anything is recorded and again before anything leaves the device, sealing on the device itself, a receipt from whoever stores the result, and a checker anyone can run that admits plainly what it cannot prove.

It also covers where such a standard should stop, and why the parts that make a product different belong outside it.