Longer pieces than the directory entries allow for: how the protocol layer works, what changes about security, and how far along the industry is. RSS available if you'd rather follow along that way.
Almost everything in the directory that isn't a closed vendor platform is wired together the same way: the Model Context Protocol, which deserves to be understood on its own terms, separate from any specific product.
It's easy to hear "agentic AI" and assume it appeared out of nowhere. It didn't. Network automation has been climbing toward this for forty years, and it's worth seeing the whole climb before deciding how far along we are.
Network security has forty years of hard-won practice behind it. Handing tool access to a language model doesn't erase any of that, but it does add a new layer of risk on top, and the industry is still working out how to handle it. This page is an honest look at where things stand, not a claim that it's solved.