The Boring Protocol That Quietly Ate the Cloud

This is a submission for the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge Act I — A Scene You've Already Lived It is 2:47 AM. You have been staring at the same error trace for three hours. Your AI agent — the one you spent two weeks fine-tuning, the one your manager called "the future of the team's workflow" — is broken. Not because the model is wrong. Not because your logic is flawed. It is broken because the tool it needs to call speaks a different dialect than the one you wrote the connector for. The