Agents' next frontier: agent-to-agent and network effects — Jean-Denis Greze, Town
Cross-silo agents are primarily a context and privacy-boundary problem. Start with low-sensitivity data, explicit sharing policy, and approval at the moment information leaves a silo.
Greze reframes agent-to-agent work as search: assemble the right context before an answer or tool call. His proposed pattern puts a **sweeper AI** inside each private silo to move policy-approved information into shared company spaces.
For coding-agent systems, define a **low-sensitivity zone** where automated disclosure is acceptable, then require approval for higher-risk sharing. Shared skills and maintained internal wikis can compound useful context across a team without granting every agent raw access to every inbox or system.
Greze reframes agent-to-agent work as search: assemble the right context before an answer or tool call. His proposed pattern puts a **sweeper AI** inside each private silo to move policy-approved information into shared company spaces. For coding-agent systems, define a **low-sensitivity zone** where automated disclosure is acceptable, then require approval for higher-risk sharing. Shared skills and maintained internal wikis can compound useful context across a team without granting every agent raw access to every inbox or system. The policy engine becomes a security boundary. Prompt injection, accidental disclosure, and incorrect facts that persist in a shared wiki remain unresolved; cross-company access requires even stronger trust than the small, high-trust company setting described.
This reframes multi-agent collaboration as governed context movement rather than unrestricted agent communication. Relative to the candidates’ orchestration patterns, it identifies shared memory and disclosure policy as prerequisites: agents can compound team knowledge only when low-sensitivity material is deliberately promoted from private silos. It also exposes a new persistence risk, because injected or incorrect information can become durable shared context.