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Where it's heading
Emerging trends
- Protocol convergence under the Linux Foundation (MCP + A2A governed together).
- Every lab ships native SDKs + native MCP — the "LangChain-only" era is over.
- Durable execution as the default substrate for long-running agents.
- Hierarchical subagents — orchestration going multi-level.
- Framework consolidation — Microsoft merging SK + AutoGen; AutoGen → maintenance mode.
- Closing the eval gap is the next maturity frontier — embedded evals, runtime guardrails.