At Bevel we started with agent skills in a shared Git repo. That got awkward once people outside engineering needed to edit them and different departments needed different access.
We built Hexis around file permissions and owner approvals, while keeping Git underneath. My co-founder Ali wrote up the tradeoffs, including a change that needs both Finance and IT to sign off.
Read Ali s article
How do you handle reviews when one skill crosses teams?
UTCP is a plug-in protocol that lets apps call tools the same way, whether they re HTTP APIs, CLIs, or other transports. Version 1.0.0 brings a lean core, protocol plugins, and a cleaner config so teams can scale tool usage without wrestling with glue code.
As we were tinkering with Universal Tool Calling Protocol (UTCP) we kept hearing about the same hurdle: Cool spec but where s the list of tools I can actually call?
