Glossary OTP

Organization Transport Protocol (OTP)

Also known as: OTP, Organization Transport Protocol, orgtp

The protocol and platform for publishing, comparing, and learning from organizational coordination intelligence. Operates above MCP (tools) and A2A (agents) in the AI coordination stack.

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A2A (Agent-to-Agent Protocol)

A protocol that lets AI agents talk directly to each other. If one agent needs help from another, A2A is the language they use ...

Coordination Intelligence

The collective, structured knowledge of how AI agents within and across organizations should coordinate. Captured in operationa...

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

An open protocol created by Anthropic that lets AI models connect to external tools and data sources. The standard for the tool...

Organizational Operating System (OOS)

A structured artifact that encodes how AI agents in an organization coordinate. Uses YAML frontmatter and Markdown-structured c...

The Three-Layer AI Coordination Stack

AI coordination operates at three layers: Tool (MCP — how agents call tools), Agent (A2A — how agents talk to each other), and ...

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