This Week in Agent Infrastructure: The Stack Is Consolidating Faster Than the Specs That Would Connect It
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The loudest story in agent infrastructure this week is not what arrived, but what remains missing. As of Monday, October 12, 2026, three specifications the agent world has been waiting on are still undelivered. The Personal Agent Protocol v0.1 specification, announced October 6 by Sierra and Meta and promised “later in October,” is still unpublished; the status rests on third-party coverage plus the absence of any published spec. Google’s Gemini agent , introduced October 8 as a universal agent for work, remains in private preview, with broad availability for Workspace customers described only as “coming soon” and no firm date…
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