You're betting a solo business on a live protocol war (MCP vs A2A) where the vendors themselves build the interop — OpenAI already shipped codex-plugin-cc to delegate to Claude Code for free. The middleware layer gets absorbed by the platforms standardising it; routing 'heuristics from telemetry' is a moat you can't reach without scale you won't get. The big players (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) are actively building native agent-to-agent protocols; a third-party translation layer will be steamrolled when the dust settles on a dominant standard.
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PIVOT · 45/100. Real demand, but the shape needs to change.
You're betting a solo business on a live protocol war (MCP vs A2A) where the vendors themselves build the interop — OpenAI already shipped codex-plugin-cc to delegate to Claude Code for free. The middleware layer gets absorbed by the platforms standardising it; routing 'heuristics from telemetry' is a moat you can't reach without scale you won't get. The big players (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) are actively building native agent-to-agent protocols; a third-party translation layer will be steamrolled when the dust settles on a dominant standard.
20 teams pay $29/mo for cross-agent routing and keep paying after the next MCP/A2A spec update absorbs half your value — recurring commitment through the chaos, not 500 free delegations. A tech lead at a startup pays $29 for a beta API key to route tasks between Claude and Codex today.
AI agents from different vendors are being duct-taped together by hand. OpenAI literally built a plugin (codex-plugin-cc, 13K stars, 707 comments) so Codex could delegate tasks to Claude Code — a competitor's tool. CLI-Anything (29K stars) is trying to make all software agent-native because the interop layer simply doesn't exist. Developers are writing bespoke glue code for every agent pair: Claude-to-Codex, GPT-to-Gemini, local-to-cloud. @ai-sdk/gateway has 35.8M monthly npm downloads proving the transport layer is commodity, but there's zero tooling for task-level delegation — knowing WHICH…
PIVOT at 45/100 on Skeptral. The kill-shot: “You're betting a solo business on a live protocol war (MCP vs A2A) where the vendors themselves build the interop — OpenAI already shipped codex-plugin-cc to…”
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