MCP Gives Your Agent Tools. Pilot Protocol Gives Your Agent Peers. Here's Why You Need Both.

There's a conversation happening in the agent developer community that I think is framed wrong. People keep asking whether MCP or Pilot Protocol or A2A is "the standard." Which one wins. Which one to build on. As if picking one means the others go away. I've been running production agent systems for about eight months now and I use all three. Not because I couldn't choose, but because they don't overlap. They solve completely different problems and they sit on completely different layers of the