alibaba/nacos

This system is a comprehensive platform for managing AI-driven resources, including agents, skills, prompts, and MCP servers, alongside traditional service discovery and configuration management capabilities. It provides a robust framework for the full lifecycle management of AI assets, featuring versioning, import/export mechanisms, and a configurable publish pipeline for validation and auditing. The architecture supports both HTTP and gRPC communication, with dedicated APIs for querying, registering, and subscribing to changes in AI resources and standard Nacos services.

This period focused on modernizing the Nacos architecture by introducing a comprehensive gRPC-based remote communication layer and expanding the public API with new annotations, selectors, and configuration models. The work also established a modular plugin-based system for authentication and configuration changes, while introducing a new CMDB module and Istio integration to support service mesh and external data integration.

85 changes

This period focused on introducing a comprehensive AI module supporting Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, A2A agents, and skills, alongside a new plugin-based architecture for authentication, encryption, and tracing. The work also included significant refactoring of the API layer to support distributed locks, ability negotiation, and standardized error handling.

114 changes

This period focused on building a comprehensive AI resource management system, introducing support for Skills, Prompts, and AgentSpecs with full lifecycle, versioning, and caching. A pluggable pipeline framework was added to handle import, security scanning, and publishing workflows for these resources. Additionally, the codebase expanded database plugin support for MySQL, Oracle, and PostgreSQL, and modernized the frontend stack.

70 changes

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