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Support for Agent Client Protocol (ACP) #3521
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Also useful is the origin story:
https://zed.dev/blog/acp-progress-reportZed's acp link, although similar info, I find is also useful.
This is the one from Zed: https://zed.dev/acpAnd Gemini CLI is the first, and used as a model:
https://geminicli.com/docs/cli/acp-mode/when can support? almost all coding cli already support acp.
Want to see this feature too.
Reacted by Olivier Hault, affection, 鬼谷子 and DFranklinHi maintainers, I’d like to follow up on ACP support.
For context, I’m working on sre-agent development at JD.COM Retail. Our project uses MAF as its foundation, and we now have a concrete requirement to add Agent Client Protocol (ACP) support. I’m interested in exploring an upstream contribution.
A possible starting point would be exposing MAF agents to ACP clients over stdio, covering session lifecycle, streaming, cancellation, tool permissions, and client-provided MCP servers. Consuming external ACP agents from MAF could be considered separately.
For persistence and observability, the integration should reuse existing Core/Hosting facilities. It would also need a clear approach to ACP history replay, pending permission state, and runtime coordination. Given the helper-first direction in ADR-0027, I’d appreciate guidance on which responsibilities should belong to the MAF integration, the ACP SDK, or application code.
Before implementation, could you clarify:- Should the initial scope prioritize ACP hosting or consuming external ACP agents?
- Would a Python-first contribution be acceptable, or should Python and .NET support be developed together?
- What package and public API shape would you prefer?
- Would you like an ADR or design proposal first, and which area owners should review it?
I’m interested in exploring a contribution and would like to agree on a focused scope first.
Should Agent Framework provide support for ACP?
https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction
It's more specialized than A2A, focusing on "communication between code editors/IDEs and coding agents and is suitable for both local and remote scenarios".
The copilot CLI now exposes support, for example.
https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/reference/acp-server