Theme: Agentic Coding 🤝 ACP (Agent Client Protocol)

💻 Coding Agents and ACP with JetBrains

💎 State of ACP from Jetbrains & Zed Industries
🎙️Panel with Jetbrains Zed Industries Mistral AI & Vibe Kanban

Agent Client Protocol (ACP) and the Future of Interoperable Coding Agents

Coding agents are part of everyday development workflows. Whether you are using an IDE or working in the CLI, coding agents are helping developers write, refactor, test, and debug code. But today’s ecosystem is fragmented, we have so many coding agents Claude Code. Codex, Gemini CLI and many others. Every editor, every tool, and every agent often speaks its own language and has own harness. Not single coding harness will solve you all needs and you should be able to switch or have a choice to use different harnesss

What if you could use any coding agent inside the editor you love?

That is exactly what the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) enables.
ACP is an open protocol that standardizes communication created by Zed Industries, between code editors and coding agents. It works for both local and remote scenarios. Think of it as the LSP for coding agents. Just as the Language Server Protocol unified language tooling across editors, ACP aims to unify how editors interact with intelligent coding agents.

Sponsors

Big Thanks to our Sponsor Jetbrains

And thanks to Tessl for hosting the venue.

What You Will Learn

In this session we explore how ACP is shaping the next generation of coding agent interoperability.
• What the Agent Client Protocol is and why it matters
• Current State of ACP and Future
• How ACP standardizes communication between IDEs and coding agents
• How to use ACP inside your favourite IDE
• How to build an ACP client
• Practical considerations for using ACP effectively
• The future of coding agent interoperability
If you are building or using coding agents, this session will give you both conceptual clarity and practical direction.

🎤 Talks
Talk 1: State of ACP and Future (45min)
Speakers:
Sergey Ignatov Director of Engineering, JetBrains
Ben Brandt Zed Industries

Description : This talk with In this session Sergey and Ben will introduce ACP and share Future plans of Agent Client Protocol from the company behind the ACP (Zed Industries) and Jetbrains
ACP:
- Overview
- State of ACP
- Ecosystem around it
- Future
- Recent Implications: OpenClaw, Custom Agents with Agent Frameworks like LangGraph, LlamaIndex and Cursor Wrapper etc

🎙️ Panel and Q&A 25 min
Topic: Agentic Coding, ACP anf Future
Panelist:
Sergey Ignatov Director of Engineering, JetBrains
Ben Brandt Zed Industries
Clément Drouin Software Engineer at Mistral AI
Louis Knight-Webb Vibe Kanban

We will close the evening with a focused panel discussion and audience Q&A on coding agents, interoperability, and the future of agent powered development. The questions on the current and future of ACP. Bring your hard questions.

Agenda
6:00 PM – Doors Open
6:00 – 6:40 PM – Welcome and Refreshments
6:40 PM – Opening Remarks and London Agentic AI
6:45 – 7:30 PM – Talk 1: State of ACP and Future
6:30 – 7:35 PM – Break
7:35 – 8:00 PM – Panel Discussion (Jetbrains, Zed, Mistral AI, Vibe Kanban), Audience Q&A
8:00 – 8:05 PM – Closing Remarks
8:05 – 8:200 PM – Networking/ Wrap Up Walk to the Big Chill
8:30 PM onwards – Big Chill pub and informal networking

Who Is This For
• Agentic coding builders
• Engineers working with coding agents
• IDE plugin developers
• AI tooling engineers
• Infrastructure and DX builders
• Anyone interested in interoperable agent systems
If you are serious about coding agents and want to understand how interoperability standards like ACP will shape the future of development workflows, this is the meetup for you.

Venue & Important Data Usage Message:
Thanks to Tessl for providing venue for the event.
📍 Tessl
210 Pentonville Rd, London N1 9JY
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