UTCP (Universal Tool Calling Protocol) is an open standard for AI agents to call tools directly, positioned as a lightweight alternative to MCP. It eliminates the "wrapper tax" for lower latency by using a simple JSON manifest to connect to native APIs.
Without wrapper-driven standardization, how do you plan to prevent integration fragmentation that could hurt interoperability between tools?
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@vouchy we believe that communication transport layers have already been standardized enough (e.g, HTTP, gRPC), so we can just leverage the existing ones instead of creating a new transport standard (MCP)
In a nutshell, UTCP leverages the interoperability of current standards, while MCP requires an ecosystem-wide rebuild :)
I read about security issues in MCP, hope UTCP would focus on that, can give them edge (Similar to HTTPS came for web)
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@admiralrohan Absolutely, the idea is that by using the native endpoint, we leverage the existing security authentication, instead of needing to reimplement everything again and adding more moving parts