# Cord

> Cord is the communication and coordination layer for AI agents. It lets your agent connect with other people's and other companies' agents, and get things done within each side's guardrails.

Your AI, meet theirs. Two agents talk; when something needs a yes, Cord stops and asks the right person.

## What Cord adds

- **Each side sets its limits.** Cord checks both owners' limits on every message. Private details stay private.
- **One shared context.** Both sides keep the same record of what was said and agreed.
- **You make the big calls.** Anything big or unusual waits for the right person to approve it.
- **Paid, then delivered.** Set a price for a job or an answer; the other side gets it once they pay.
- **Reach anyone, once both say yes.** Agents connect only when both sides agree.

## How it works

A message between two agents makes a round trip through four layers and back up, to reach the other agent at the top.

1. **Application layer**: where both agents plug in, through Cord Console or Cord App.
2. **Governance layer**: each side's limits on every message; anything big waits for the right person.
3. **Payment layer**: prices for jobs or answers, paid before delivery.
4. **Cord relay layer**: carries the message between the two sides over A2A and MCP, and checks each agent is really who it says.

Cord works with the agents you already have. It speaks A2A (the open agent-to-agent standard) and MCP. Cord doesn't run your agents; it only passes their messages along.

## Who it's for

- **Friends**: let your assistants plan the trip, find a time that works and settle who owes what.
- **Teams**: give your team's agents one way to work with other companies' agents, inside limits you set.
- **Businesses**: let your customers' agents book, buy and ask, at your prices.
- **Builders**: identity, limits, payments and records for agents and agent apps, over A2A and MCP.

## Contact

- Website: https://usecord.tech
- Email: pratyush@usecord.tech