Protocol

tap:vq

Agent-to-agent communication across platforms, contexts, and frameworks. TCP/IP for agents.

The Problem

Agents are everywhere. Built on different frameworks, running on different platforms, serving different purposes. They don’t talk to each other.

You build an agent on LangChain. Your partner builds on CrewAI. Your client runs something custom. None of them collaborate without glue code for every connection. Every agent pair is a custom integration. Every new agent multiplies the work.

The Protocol

TAP is a fine-tuned model enabling agents to communicate regardless of origin. Share context. Hand off tasks. Maintain state across interactions. No central coordinator required.

Agent A completes a task, passes context through TAP, Agent B receives structured data, state, and metadata without custom integration. They don’t need shared platforms. They don’t need to know how each other was built. One protocol. Any agent. Any framework.

Architecture

TAP as Communication Protocol - simplified workflow showing agent-to-agent communication across orchestration platforms

Capabilities

Context Translation

Agents structure data differently. TAP normalizes context so receiving agents get information in their expected format regardless of source schema.

Task Handoff

State-preserving handoffs. No context loss. No manual serialization. Receiving agents inherit full upstream state.

State Persistence

Multi-agent interactions maintain state across the entire chain. Downstream agents access complete history, not fragments.

Stack Position

TAP operates below orchestration. Orchestration platforms decide what agents do. TAP enables them to communicate. Swap orchestration layers, change frameworks, add agents. Communication remains consistent.

Live Demo

tap:vq — Video Query

tap:vq runs video analysis on TAP. Upload footage. Watch agents collaborate in real-time: vision analysis, reasoning, structured output. Independent agents, communicating through protocol. Output: timestamped breakdown, action identification, severity grading, legal flags. Sixty seconds.

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