Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (News)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

Google announces an open protocol for AI agent collaboration, Datastar is an Alpine.js / htmx love child, Matthias Endler documents things he finds common in the best programmers, turns out Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days & Zev is a CLI that helps you remember (or discover) terminal commands using natural language.

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1. What up, endangered nerds? (00:00:00)

https://www.pillar.security/blog/new-vulnerability-in-github-copilot-and-cursor-how-hackers-can-weaponize-code-agents?utm_source=changelog-news

2. Google's new protocol has AI agents talkin' (00:00:52)

https://github.com/google/A2A?utm_source=changelog-news

3. Datastar - the hypermedia framework (00:02:07)

https://data-star.dev/?utm_source=changelog-news

4. The best programmers I know (00:03:07)

https://endler.dev/2025/best-programmers/?utm_source=changelog-news

5. Sponsor: Retool (00:03:59)

https://retool.com/blog/q1-2025-release?utm_source=changelog&utm_campaign=changelog-news

6. Linus Torvalds built Git in 10 days (00:05:33)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-built-git-in-10-days-and-never-imagined-it-would-last-20-years/?utm_source=changelog-news

7. A simple CLI to help remember commands (00:06:44)

https://github.com/dtnewman/zev?utm_source=changelog-news

8. That's the news for now (00:07:34)

https://changelog.com/news