ACP is suitable for both local and remote scenarios:
Full support for remote agents is a work in progress. We are actively collaborating with agentic platforms to ensure the protocol addresses the specific requirements of cloud-hosted and remote deployment scenarios.
The protocol re-uses the JSON representations used in MCP where possible, but includes custom types for useful agentic coding UX elements, like displaying diffs. The default format for user-readable text is Markdown, which allows enough flexibility to represent rich formatting without requiring that the code editor is capable of rendering HTML.
Last modified 15 April 2026