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Integration fabric

By Murali SidLinkedInPublished

Status: complete (published 2026-08-19). Scope was finalized at kickoff with maintainer POV; see findings.md and sources.md.

Scope inventory (v0)

  • Current estate: SOA and ESB heritage, API management, EDI and B2B, iPaaS, event backbone, workflow and BPM engines, RPA estate, legacy adapters (mainframe, file and batch)
  • Agent-era: MCP tool layer and MCP gateways (distinct from LLM gateways), tool registries and connector catalogs, agent-to-agent protocols and cross-enterprise federation, the RPA-to-agent migration path
  • Safe action: OAuth on-behalf-of and token exchange, idempotency and compensation (saga) patterns for agent-initiated actions, human-approval workflow integration, rate limiting
  • Patterns: experience/process/system API layering, event-driven agent triggers, durable long-running orchestration

Challenged-default candidates

MCP gateway products vs extending existing API gateways; iPaaS agent connectors vs governed APIs; RPA replacement urgency vs coexistence. Each track proposes its final list at kickoff.

Files

findings.md and sources.md carry this track's research. The scoping brief and the vendor map were archived on 2026-08-23 (see archive/, decision D038).

Cite this page

Written by Murali Sid, Founder and AI Systems Architect, last updated 18 September 2026. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so quote it freely with attribution.

Murali Sid (2026). Integration fabric. Agentic Architecture Skills. https://www.agenticarchitectureskills.com/library/layers/r03-integration-fabric

Machine-readable version of this page: /library/layers/r03-integration-fabric.md

Sources

All accessed 2026-08-19. [vendor] marks vendor-published claims about the publisher's own market.

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