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[&] / CC2 — Capability Composition, v2 (Coalitional) — Status: Draft · Replaces: CC1 (single-agent & / |> composition) · Depends on: box-and-box ≥ 0.8 (the eight-rung modality ladder)
[&] Ecosystem Overview — How Everything Ties Together — March 2026 · [&] Ampersand Box Design
[&] Protocol Documentation — Welcome to the documentation hub for the [&] Protocol.
[&] vs MCP vs A2A vs DALIA vs ACP — This document positions the [&] Protocol relative to adjacent standards, research efforts, and ecosystem protocols.
Architecture Guide — This document describes the reference architecture of the [&] Protocol and how its core artifacts fit together.
Autonomous Systems: The Canonical [&] Use Case — March 2026 · [&] Ampersand Box Design
Competitive Landscape: Machine Cognition — March 2026 · [&] Ampersand Box Design
FAQ — The [&] Protocol is a language-agnostic specification for capability composition in AI agents.
Five-Minute Quickstart (Elixir Reference CLI) — This quickstart gets you from clone to a working ampersand executable and runs every core CLI command against infra-operator.ampersand.json.
Industry Verticals: Where All Six Primitives Compose — March 2026 · [&] Ampersand Box Design
Research Overview — This document is the research-oriented companion for the [&] Protocol documentation hub.
Runtime Walkthrough — This page shows what happens when a runtime processes an `ampersand.json` declaration from start to finish.
The [&] Umbrella — one stack: declare → … → observe — Status: living map · Audience: anyone trying to see how [&], box-and-box, CC1, and CC2 fit into a single system rather than separate folders.
The Compose Runtime — CC2 compose, made authorable (design note) — Status: design proposal · Reviewable against: CC2-capability-composition.md (§2 operators, §3 coalition), UMBRELLA.md (the compose stage), box-and-box (8 rungs / 103 laws) · Sur…
The Missing Layer: Capability Composition in the Agent Protocol Stack — The current agent ecosystem is converging on a recognizable protocol stack.
Topology Is the Authority: Why Agent Governance Can't Be Bolted On — March 2026 · [&] Ampersand Box Design