Agent Definition Language (ADL): The Missing Standard That Could Finally Tame the Wild West of AI Agents
Remember when every website had its own custom markup language before HTML became the standard? Or when APIs were a free-for-all before OpenAPI (Swagger) came along and said, “Hey, maybe we should all describe our endpoints the same way”? Well, AI agents are having their own Wild West moment right now, and it’s exactly as messy as you’d imagine. Meet Agent Definition Language (ADL) — the open-source standard that’s trying to bring some order to this chaos. Think of it as the “OpenAPI for AI agents,” except instead of defining what an API endpoint does, it defines what an agent is, what tools it can use, what data it can access, and most importantly, what guardrails keep it from going rogue. ...