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Transport — Agent wire protocols

# ACP

Wire formats between agents, hosts, and tool servers. Two lineages share the acronym: Zed's Agent Client Protocol (editor↔agent, JSON-RPC — how JetBrains/VS Code embed terminal agents) and IBM's earlier Agent Communication Protocol, now folded into A2A. [agentclientprotocol.com ↗](https://agentclientprotocol.com/)

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## Who speaks it

-   03[CLI agents](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/cli-agent)
-   01[AI IDEs](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/ai-ide)
-   01[IDE extensions](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/ide-extension)
-   01[agent communication platforms](https://www.agentlist.io/categories/agent-communication)

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## Vendors (6)

-   [IBM](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/ibm)
-   [JetBrains](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/jetbrains)
-   [Mistral AI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/mistral)
-   [Moonshot AI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/moonshot)
-   [xAI](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/xai)
-   [Zed Industries](https://www.agentlist.io/ai/zed)

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## Agents on this wire (6)

[Zed Zed Industries · ai-ide editor · local · Editor free; Pro $10/mo (incl. $5 tokens); Business $30/seat](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/zed)

[Grok Build xAI · cli-agent cli/editor/api · local · Free to try; SuperGrok $30/mo or X Premium+ $40/mo; API grok-4.6 $2/M in · $6/M out](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/grok-build)

[Kimi Code Moonshot AI · cli-agent cli/editor/api · local · Free OSS; Kimi Code managed service or Moonshot API keys (multi-provider)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/kimi-code)

[Mistral Vibe Mistral AI · cli-agent cli/editor · local · CLI open source; models via Mistral API / Le Chat; Devstral Small self-deployable](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/mistral-vibe)

[Junie JetBrains · ide-extension editor/cli · local · Free to start; full use via JetBrains AI subscription (AI Pro / AI Ultimate)](https://www.agentlist.io/systems/junie)

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## Transport table

| Agent | Vendor | Category |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ZedZed is a fast native editor (Rust, GPU-rendered) with a built-in agent panel, edit predictions, and hosted or BYOK models. | Zed Industries | ai-ide |
| Grok BuildGrok Build is xAI's terminal coding agent — a full-screen, mouse-interactive TUI (open-source Rust) powered by Grok 4.6, with skills, subagents in Git worktrees, headless mode, and ACP embedding for editors. | xAI | cli-agent |
| Kimi CodeKimi Code is Moonshot AI's single-binary terminal agent — tuned TUI, subagents, conversational MCP setup, lifecycle hooks, and ACP for Zed/JetBrains. Runs Kimi models by default but also speaks Anthropic, OpenAI, and Gemini protocols. | Moonshot AI | cli-agent |
| Mistral VibeMistral Vibe is Mistral's open-source CLI coding agent powered by Devstral 2 — terminal-native multi-file automation with IDE extensions for VS Code, JetBrains, and Zed over ACP. Its enterprise counterpart is Mistral Code. | Mistral AI | cli-agent |
| JunieJunie is JetBrains' coding agent — inside JetBrains IDEs (Junie Local in AI Chat) and as a terminal CLI. GA since June 2026, with agentic debugging that drives the IDE's real debugger, breakpoints included. | JetBrains | ide-extension |

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## More agent wire protocols

-   [A2A (Agent2Agent)](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/a2a)
-   [AG-UI](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/ag-ui)
-   [AGNTCY / SLIM](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/agntcy-slim)
-   [AITP](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/aitp)
-   [ANP (Agent Network Protocol)](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/anp)
-   [MCP (Model Context Protocol)](https://www.agentlist.io/transports/mcp)

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