Implement Agent Client Protocol (ACP)?

[bdklahn]

Firstly, thanks for creating this! It looks very featureful, fast, and promising.

ACP

I, and others, might like to use this with editors like Zed.

I'm not 100% postive ACP makes sense for your scope/use, etc.

I'm also not 100% postive ACP makes sense as a separat(ed) thing vs. MCP.

I am well aware of how they are (purported to be) different in terms of design and scope. But I also feel that MCP already fundamentally blurs the lines of scope:

E.g.
A "resource" really is a very simple version of a tool: "Get me this data" still needs to do some processing to make sure useful formats and forms are loaded.
A "prompt" really is just a form of algorithmic information, just like a tool is, in that it encodes how to do something.

MCP maybe could just be extended to consider an editor like Zed as a tool for getting information from loaded files, maybe via it's tree-sitter graph, and asking about current user intent.

Anyway. Just a thought. I'm not sure if ACP will take off in terms of adoption.
Also not sure how easy it would be to implement here, even if it becomes a loser in the "competing standards competition".

Thanks for your time and effort.

[kasajian]

Seems like aichat can just use ACP. Not just support it, but be fundamentally based on it.