MCP vs ACP: The Two Protocols Every AI Builder Needs to Know

🚀 Join my community to build and launch real apps with AI @ https://www.skool.com/aiapps/about 🛠️ Work with me to make $5-50k+ with your app @ https://calendly.com/chris-ashby/appstudio 💡 Get 250+ validated app ideas and the prompts to build FREE @ https://readytobuild.app/ Most people building with AI already know about MCP, but most people don't know about a different protocol that works alongside MCP: ACP. So what is ACP? What does it do, how does it work and how can you start building with it? In this video I break down everything you need to know about ACP whether you're technical or non-technical, how ACP works and how you can build applications using ACP today. Find out more about ACP here: https://agentclientprotocol.com/get-started/introduction Chapters: 00:00 Introducing the ACP protocol 00:58 Explaining the difference between MCP and ACP 04:48 How MCP and ACP work together 07:08 Live-building ACP into the Orchestrate app 10:46 Prompting Claude Code to create a build plan 19:21 First build attempt fails, debugging begins 27:20 Using a reference image to improve the UI 31:23 Testing the new ACP-powered UI features 33:45 The future of ACP and AI-driven desktop apps Follow on social: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashbychris/ https://x.com/chris_bgp https://www.instagram.com/build.greatproducts/