Modular Agents and Orchestrated Coordination using Open Agentic Protocols: Foundations for the Next Wave of Agentic AI

We argue that the future of open agentic Al hinges on systems composed of small, domain-specialist models fine-tuned for agentic tasks, coordinated by asynchronous multi-agent orchestration and stabilized via deterministic rule scaffolding. In this paradigm, each agent focuses on a slice of reasoning, planning, or execution; orchestration layers manage long-horizon workflows and inter-agent dependencies; and open protocols and frameworks ensure interoperability, extensibility, and community-driven evolution.x000D This talk outlines a blueprint for this architecture, touching on real challenges and emerging research directions: semantic routing of subtasks, fault recovery in agent networks, hybrid symbolic-neural constraint enforcement, and the design of open agentic communication standards (e.g. MCP, A2A). We show how modular, protocol-driven agent ecosystems can scale, adapt, and coordinate over complex tasks, and we offer a roadmap for pushing these ideas from prototypes to robust agentic infrastructure.