Bypassing NAT for AI Agents: Cloudflare Mesh vs. Pilot Protocol

The artificial intelligence industry has rapidly shifted toward autonomous, multi-agent systems, but developers are colliding with a massive infrastructure barrier when moving these systems into production. Both Cloudflare Mesh and Pilot Protocol recently emerged to solve the exact same network crisis: giving transient AI agents a way to communicate across strict firewalls and Network Address Translation boundaries without relying on human-centric VPNs. When an agent on a local development machi