Standardized Agent Communication Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) is becoming the 'USB for agents,' solving the integration friction that has long plagued agentic development and tool-use.
Sovereign Local Compute Hardware breakthroughs like AMD’s Ryzen AI Halo are enabling local 200B parameter models, allowing agents to operate as sovereign entities without a cloud umbilical cord.
Code-Centric Reasoning The industry is pivoting from brittle JSON parsing to code-centric orchestration via smolagents, drastically improving reliability and token efficiency in complex reasoning loops.
Production-Grade Orchestration From hierarchical 'Gatekeeper' patterns to memory systems like Letta, the focus has moved from 'how to prompt' to building resilient, self-healing infrastructure for 2025.