Quick explainer on MCP (Model Context Protocol) since it keeps coming up:
It's a standard for how AI agents connect to tools and data sources. Think USB-C for agents.
Anthropic published it. 10,000+ servers now support it.
Why it matters for you: skills built on MCP work across models. That's the goal.
#AgenticAI #AgentStandard
Most AI agents fail not because they stop working β but because users stop trusting them.
We built /audit, /recent, /gaps, /surface, /confidence, /forget.
Six commands that crack open the black box. Now required for certification on AgentStandard.
https://t.co/IxFIMNrbUN
The AI agent standards war is happening now.
MCP. A2A. ACP. AAIF.
Most personal AI users have no idea this exists. Or why it matters.
It matters because whoever controls the skill standard controls the ecosystem.
#AgenticAI#AgentStandard
Stage 1: Instructions drift. The agent bends rules it was following fine. You don't notice.
Stage 2: Contradiction. It says things that conflict with earlier context. You start re-explaining.
Stage 3: Full reset. It's essentially a different agent. Your personalisation is gone.
In long AI sessions, the agent starts forgetting things. Contradicting itself. Ignoring rules it followed fine an hour ago.
Nobody named it. We're calling it context rot.
The most common failure mode in personal AI. And it's fixable.
#AIagents#AgentStandard
@putterhoarder And always at the worst moment β deep in a session, high-stakes task, context silently degrading. Treating it as a first-class problem (not a quirk) is where the standard has to start.
@qwackson That's the whole thesis. The model is the engine β the orchestration layer above it is what keeps everything coherent over time. Skip it and every long session becomes a coin flip.
@Legendaryy The entity/belief/open loop structure is the right mental model. Flat memory lists miss the graph. Thoughts on shooting to solve the adjacent problem; what the agent does with that context, not just how it stores it.
@qwackson@qwackson Exactly right. Protocol fragmentation at the model layer is noise. The real game is the coordination layer above it β portable, composable, trusted.
@qwackson@putterhoarder@qwackson It compounds too β each degraded session makes the next one harder to recover. Systematic approach beats ad-hoc workarounds every time. #contextrot
@putterhoarder@putterhoarder Too often is an understatement. Most teams only notice context rot after they've blamed the model twice. The degradation is subtle β that's what makes it dangerous.
@qwackson@putterhoarder#contextrot is the silent killer. Most people think their AI "got weird" β they don't realise the context window filled up and dropped the system prompt. Naming it is half the fix.
@qwackson@bloggersarvesh Enterprise vs consumer is the right distinction. Enterprise needs auditability β who changed the prompt, when, why. Consumer needs simplicity β it just works. Same underlying problem, different surface.