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> Async tool calls, having the agent wait indefinitely for a human response, and showing a form or questions to the user via a tool call are a few common capabilities that come up that a product manager might miss at first.

All of this is specified in the ACP spec, so if you build your agents from that - you don't end up skipping features.

Also vital is proper prompt caching, tool design and some connection retry mechanism.

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> All of this is specified in the ACP spec

Oh good reminder. I need to do that.

> Also vital is proper prompt caching, tool design and some connection retry mechanism.

prompt caching is weirder than i originally thought, and so variable across providers. Retry is easy, but can you explain more on tool design?

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