PAIX
A Simple but Powerful Protocol for the Agentic Internet
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A Simple but Powerful Protocol for the Agentic Internet
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PAIX is an open protocol that upgrades email into a shared interface for you and your AI to interact with services. Works as normal email on day 0, with gradual upgrade paths for identity, login, and API-like actions.
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It is innovative and also commendable to build for the AI future. But, we already have another established protocol now MCP that is also build to solve very similar problem imo. How is it different from it and what is your plan for making this wider adoption in the dev community?
@vatsmi Thank you very much for your comment. MCP has in deed been a big inspiration for this and MCP is amazing. But unfortunately it also requires a communication channel, where as today that is very much the traditional API that is required with that. PAIX makes email into more intelligent communication channel on top of existing infra. In a way making email into universal API that everyone already has. Also PAIX dont take any stand into what is the communication inside this channel, only how to get more use out of it. As such its complementary to MCP (ie MCP protocol can be one format to communicate inside PAIX email).
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Email also requires communication channels (ever since the old days of multi channel MTAs sometimes using dialup!)
An issue with email is that's it's one way: fire off an email and hope it's received and processed correctly, and then the recipients might decide to fire a one-way message back.
Two way pipes (mostly built on TCP/IP) are the way most of the Internet works these days and for good reason :)
MCP (like was mentioned above) and A2A are leading protocols for working with agents and can provide secure, trusted, and real-time two way communications. A2A even has a facility for delayed responses where the recipient can take time to think, or even loop in the human, before responding to a request.
Lots of great work is being done in the protocol space!