The Prompt Economy is all about promise and execution. The promise is easy to see in all the announcements from companies like Visa, Mastercard, Google and others that continue to dominate the news. The execution can be seen as CFOs move from experimentation to action. Somewhere in the middle are the developers and the protocols needed to create the right agentic infrastructure.
That middle is starting to take shape as agentic AI gains traction. A good example can be seen in this post from Cisco. It explains how two emerging protocols are shaping the next phase of agentic AI development: the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A). MCP helps large language models understand and use external tools by translating complex APIs into natural language. This makes…