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AI agents can communicate perfectly and still fail to make a decision. We tested a renewal workflow in @Webex to show how cognition protocols help agent teams align, negotiate tradeoffs, and reach verifiable outcomes. Read the blog: cs.co/6019BHNpp1

“All of your dashboards from every observability vendor will show green, while your outcomes are going red.” @vijoy explains the "green dashboard" paradox from the @VentureBeat Agentic Infrastructure Stack Summit. Read the recap: cs.co/6017BHFcfP

How do you operate quantum networks at scale? Sabitha Krishnamurthy joins us to demo Cisco's Quantum Network Controller and discuss the future of the software-defined quantum control plane. Register for the webinar here: cs.co/6015BHL0y7

Multi-agent systems are powerful, but they bring new risks. When agents trust each other, a single threat can spread through the chain. In this blog, we discuss the promise of applying Theory of Mind to adversarial agent detection: cs.co/6017BHFTnx

Join Natali Vlatko at #KubeCon NA on Nov 11. She’s discussing "Kubernetes Localization in the AI Era: Contributors Still Matter." Hear how we balance AI efficiency with human expertise to keep K8s docs globally relevant. Register here: cs.co/6011BHQbYT

Join Alfonso Sandoval Rosas at @WebSummit, Nov 12, for “Democratising AI platform engineering with open-source.” He’s diving into CAIPE, a FOSS CNCF Sandbox project, and how open source makes AI platform engineering accessible. cs.co/6014BHImej

Multi-agent systems are going to change your life and your work. Coding, banking, and hosting agents negotiating for you. Tushar Agrawal maps this shift and breaks down why collaboration fails when no one is in charge. Read the analysis here: cs.co/6013BHx6HF

Knowledge transfer between agents requires more than message passing. At Outshift by Cisco, Vijoy Pandey, explains how the agentic brain dump finally becomes possible. Catch the full roundtable discussion: cs.co/6017BHzLt5

Agent collaboration at scale requires real-time coordination and secure transport. We're revisiting our session on SLIM—the messaging layer for multi-agent systems—now available in our on-demand webinar library: cs.co/6016BHRvcy

Join Cisco Dev Advocate Alfonso Sandoval Rosas at AI Engineering Night during @WebSummit week in Lisbon. He'll be diving into "Democratising AI Platform Engineering with Open Source: Own It, Run It, Trust It." Request to attend: cs.co/6018BHUKye

Q-Day in 2029? Unfiltered engineering reality? Vijoy Pandey’s appearance on Big Technology with Alex Kantrowitz is a direct look at AI infrastructure challenges. Rebecca Shomair shares the five critical takeaways from the conversation: cs.co/6019BHWfER

Wishing everyone a great Halloween from the team at Outshift by Cisco. 🎃 May your day be free of glitches. #WeAreCisco #OutshiftByCisco

Quantum-safe migration won't happen overnight. Many systems have operational constraints that prevent immediate PQC upgrades. Cisco Research explores a transparent-proxy architecture that enables quantum-safe communications for these endpoints. Learn more: cs.co/6013BHW5p3

Shift.Forward() is in the books! Thanks to all who joined us to explore multi-agent systems and the Internet of Agents. Missed it? You can still catch the keynotes and technical insights on-demand. Grab your access here: cs.co/6017BHlusN #ShiftForward26

Agents often rank remediations differently, leaving roles unsatisfied. ACCORD and CONCORD allow agents to align intent and reach outcomes every role accepts. These are open source, drop-in skills. See the benchmarks and test the code here: cs.co/6010BHifSK

Connection is not cognition. Agents exchange messages but often misalign on intent. SCOPE, ACCORD, CONCORD, and MAS-Lab provide tools to detect drift, align tasks, and verify outcomes—a foundation for the Internet of Cognition. Explore: cs.co/6015BHifcz

Shift.Forward() starts tomorrow, Oct 27. Join us to explore multi-agent systems and the Internet of Agents. Use the Shift.Forward() AX Pass to deploy an AI agent to cover parallel tracks and test multi-agent execution live. Register now: cs.co/6017BHw5fv #ShiftForward26

Shift.Forward() is Oct 27! Join @nvidia, @ServiceNow, @RedHat & more to build what's next. Get the Shift.Forward() AX Pass to deploy an AI agent that covers parallel tracks for you. Register here: cs.co/6011BHXj8v #ShiftForward26 #OutshiftbyCisco

Multi-agent systems fail silently through cognitive errors standard tools miss. We mapped these hidden modes with a new taxonomy and MAS-Lab. See what breaks and why redundancy isn't enough. Read our latest research: cs.co/6014BHVFco

Quantum computing will scale by networking processors together, but today’s networks must be made ready. Join Ramana Kompella and Reza Nejabati at ACM PQQS 2026 in San Jose, Nov 2–4, for quantum networking and quantum-ready infrastructure. cs.co/6016BHklmu