# The Internet of Agentic AI: Communication, Coordination, and Collective Intelligence at Scale

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12835 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.12835/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks, one of 16 directions in LLM agents and tool use.
- Builds on 25 of its 68 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 11 Jun 2026.

## Placed in

- LLM agents and tool use / [General LLM agent frameworks and benchmarks](https://mlsanity.com/agents/general-llm-agent-frameworks-and-benchmarks/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 25 of 25)

- [Constitutional AI: Harmlessness from AI Feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2212.08073/) (2022)
- [MetaGPT: Meta Programming for A Multi-Agent Collaborative Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2308.00352/) (2023)
- [Concrete Problems in AI Safety](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1606.06565/) (2016)
- [CAMEL: Communicative Agents for "Mind" Exploration of Large Language Model Society](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17760/) (2023)
- [Open Challenges in Multi-Agent Security: Towards Secure Systems of Interacting AI Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.02077/) (2025)
- [IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1407.3561/) (2014)
- [A Scalable Communication Protocol for Networks of Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.11905/) (2024)
- [Exploring Prosocial Irrationality for LLM Agents: A Social Cognition View](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.14744/) (2024)
- [A Novel Zero-Trust Identity Framework for Agentic AI: Decentralized Authentication and Fine-Grained Access Control](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.19301/) (2025)
- [Agent Network Protocol Technical White Paper](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.00007/) (2025)
- [AI Agents with Decentralized Identifiers and Verifiable Credentials](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.02841/) (2025)
- [Empowering Scientific Workflows with Federated Agents](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.05428/) (2025)
- [Game Theory Meets LLM and Agentic AI: Reimagining Cybersecurity for the Age of Intelligent Threats](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.10621/) (2025)
- [Efficient and Scalable Agentic AI with Heterogeneous Systems](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.19635/) (2025)
- [Internet of Agentic AI: Incentive-Compatible Distributed Teaming and Workflow](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.03145/) (2026)
- [Federation of Agents: A Semantics-Aware Communication Fabric for Large-Scale Agentic AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.20175/) (2025)
- [Toward a Dynamic Stackelberg Game-Theoretic Framework for Agentic AI Defense Against LLM Jailbreaking](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.08207/) (2025)
- [Agent Communications toward Agentic AI at Edge -- A Case Study of the Agent2Agent Protocol](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.15819/) (2025)
- [Agentic AI for Cyber Resilience: A New Security Paradigm and Its System-Theoretic Foundations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.22883/) (2025)
- [LLM-Stackelberg Games: Conjectural Reasoning Equilibria and Their Applications to Spearphishing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.09407/) (2025)
- [Insurance of Agentic AI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2606.05449/) (2026)
- [Beyond Context Sharing: A Unified Agent Communication Protocol (ACP) for Secure, Federated, and Autonomous Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Orchestration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2602.15055/) (2026)
- [A Theory of Multilevel Interactive Equilibrium in NeuroAI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.10505/) (2026)
- [A Games-in-Games Approach to Mosaic Command and Control Design of Dynamic Network-of-Networks for Secure and Resilient Multi-Domain Operations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.02114/) (2019)
- [Differential Privacy in Generative AI Agents: Analysis and Optimal Tradeoffs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.17902/) (2026)

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [Internet of Agentic Things: Networked AI Agents for Closed-Loop IoT Orchestration](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.12662/) (2026)
- [AI-Native Insurance for Agentic AI: Pricing, Underwriting, and End-to-End Automation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.13230/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The rapid emergence of autonomous AI agents is transforming artificial intelligence from isolated model inference into distributed systems of reasoning, communication, and action. This paper develops the vision of the Internet of Agentic AI (IoAI): an open ecosystem in which heterogeneous agents discover one another, negotiate responsibilities, exchange context, invoke tools, and execute workflows across cloud, edge, device, organizational, and cyber-physical environments. We synthesize foundations from single-agent agentic AI, multi-agent systems, distributed computing, communication networks, game theory, and security engineering to characterize the architectures and mechanisms required for scalable agent ecosystems. The paper examines agent deployment models, workflow lifecycles, communication protocols, interoperability layers, resource-management challenges, and trust architectures, with case studies in adaptive manufacturing and distributed operational coordination. The resulting framework highlights the central research challenges of controlled emergence, semantic interoperability, secure identity, incentive-compatible coordination, resource-aware orchestration, and governance for large-scale networks of autonomous agents.