I lead sales in industrial automation. That's exactly why I'm here.

Working with automation systems every day, I see what happens when intelligent agents need to collaborate across company boundaries: the communication layer is being solved (A2A, MCP), but trust, economy, diversity, and ethics between autonomous agents are not. These are the problems I've been designing solutions for.

📄 The Missing Layers: A proposal for open protocol extensions above A2A. Six layers that address what current agent interoperability standards leave unsolved: how agents build trust without central authority, trade value without human currency, evolve without monoculture, and coexist safely with the human world.

The whitepaper is open for discussion. The next step is a formal specification of the Agent Boundary Protocol (ABP) as an A2A extension.

Because the gap between what agent protocols solve today and what industrial practice needs tomorrow is visible from the shop floor, not from a computer science lab. I bring the perspective of someone who sees companies struggle with cross-vendor agent collaboration, and who knows that no single vendor will build the neutral infrastructure the market needs.

If you work on A2A, MCP, agent trust, multi-agent economics, or AI safety and you see the same gaps, I'd welcome your perspective. Open an issue, start a discussion, or reach out on LinkedIn.

📍 Esslingen am Neckar, Germany