Comment by didibus

Comment by didibus 21 hours ago

There's another project called ECA: https://github.com/editor-code-assistant/eca

I think the difference is ECA is a coding agent with a LSP-like protocol for various frontend and editors, which itself supports many models.

Where as agent protocol if I understand lets you use many agents like Gemini CLI, Claude Code, well assuming they support the protocol, using various frontend?

Though I guess other coding agents could also adopt the ECA protocol maybe.

versteegen 19 hours ago

Yes, and the ECA project includes an emacs package; I've been using it recently.

I've been diving in to the ECA protocol a bit to debug some emacs issues, and from glancing at the ACP (Agent Client Protocol) documentation, it seems that the ECA and ACP protocols are incredibly similar, and both very well documented. An accident of reinvention.

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ljm 8 hours ago

I've tried both and that sounds about right - I had to configure my MCPs for it again and it runs its own server in the background.

For that alone I've preferred agent-shell since you just use the agent's own config. That's already enough of a pain point when each agent has its own config format and location, as well as the differences between project and user level config - would be nice if there was a standard for that at some point too.

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