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Mar 5, 2026
Research

Decentralized Universal AI Discovery Protocol (DUADP): An Open Standard

No universal discovery protocol exists for AI agents. DUADP's federated approach addresses the most critical gap in the emerging agentic stack.

BlueFly.io17 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Standards

DNS TXT Records, DUADP, and the Path to Agents as First-Class Web Citizens

Agents could represent 50% of internet traffic by 2030 — DNS TXT records, DUADP registration, and OSSA A2A cards give them the identity infrastructure they need to be first-class web citizens.

OSSA Team5 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Research

Beyond MCP: Why Agent Protocols Need to Be as Fluid as Agents Themselves

MCP was donated to the Linux Foundation with 60,000+ AGENTS.md adoptions — but tool-level connectivity is not enough when 7.2% of MCP servers have known vulnerabilities and agents need identity, trust, and governance.

OSSA Team5 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Research

Competitive Landscape: Who Will Own Agent Discovery?

AGNTCY has 75+ companies. AAIF has OpenAI + Anthropic + Google. The MCP Registry has 5,800+ servers. We mapped every player racing to own agent discovery.

OSSA Team4 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Opinion

The Race to Become DNS for AI Agents

10+ agent marketplaces, 6 competing URI schemes, and zero universal discovery. The window to become DNS for AI agents is 12-18 months.

OSSA Team4 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Engineering

Knowledge Graphs vs. Skills Files: The End of Static Agent Configuration

Static AGENTS.md files and skill registries are Web 1.0 thinking applied to autonomous systems — knowledge graphs and vector stores enable dynamic, semantic capability discovery that eliminates 40-60% configuration duplication.

OSSA Team6 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Standards

NIST CAISI: Why the US Government Just Made Agent Standards a National Priority

Three parallel NIST initiatives — CAISI, NCCoE AI Agent Identity, and the AI Agent Standards Initiative — signal that the US government views agent interoperability and safety as critical infrastructure problems.

OSSA Team6 min read
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Mar 5, 2026
Opinion

The Dark Ages of Token Efficiency: Why Your Agents Are Wasting 90% of Their Context Window

The agentic AI market is burning $7.8B annually while agents waste 90% of their context windows on redundant knowledge injection — knowledge graphs and vector stores cut that by 10x.

OSSA Team5 min read
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Feb 28, 2026
Policy

NIST Just Validated the Gap OSSA Was Built to Fill

NIST's CAISI RFI and NCCoE AI Agent Identity program confirm what we've been building toward: AI agents need a contract layer for identity, trust, governance, and discovery. Here's how OSSA fills the gap the US government just identified.

Thomas Scola6 min read
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Jan 29, 2026
Specification

The OSSA Open Roadmap: Community & Engineering

A technical deep-dive into the OSSA engineering roadmap. We analyze the breakthrough v0.3.6 release, the move to a functional Python SDK, and the multi-year path to 1.0 stability.

Thomas Scola3 min read
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Jan 26, 2026
Tooling

Building Your First OSSA Agent: Step-by-Step Tutorial

A hands-on engineering guide to building a production-ready code review agent. We walk through manifest creation, type generation, and implementation in both TypeScript and Python using the OSSA v0.3.6 SDK.

Thomas Scola3 min read
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Jan 25, 2026
Ecosystem

Production-Ready: GitLab Kubernetes Agent Ecosystem with OSSA

An architectural overview of 8 specialized OSSA-compliant agents designed for GitLab-integrated Kubernetes deployments. This ecosystem demonstrates the theoretical potential of the OSSA specification for automation, cost optimization, and compliance.

OSSA Team4 min read
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Jan 22, 2026
Security

Building a 3-Tier Progressive Compliance Agent

Enterprise AI isn't an all-or-nothing proposition. We break down the 3-tier progressive compliance model for agents, allowing organizations to scale from rapid prototyping to regulated production environments.

Thomas Scola3 min read
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Jan 17, 2026
Ecosystem

Welcome to OSSA

We're excited to launch OSSA—the first formal specification standard for AI agents. Learn how we're building the 'OpenAPI for Software Agents' to enable a portable, secure, and vendor-neutral agentic future.

OSSA Team2 min read
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