Capability Mesh - iSAQB Netherlands Meetup

This is the slide deck for the Presentation made on 5th of March 2026
https://www.meetup.com/isaqb-nl/events/313283175/

Transcript

1. Capability Mesh Architecture for the Agentic Era Makan Sepehrifar March 2026
3. Who am I? Makan Sepehrifar • Senior Software Architect @ • Generative AI Enthusiast • Always a Developer
4. What is Agentic AI?
5. No one knows really what the hell Agentic AI is Ref : Techcrunch “No one knows what the hell an AI agent is“
6. Agenda • What is an Agent? • Multi(Micro)-Agent Architecture • Transition from Service Mesh • Introduction to Capability Mesh • Self-Contained Agents • Agent Governance / Policy as Code • Capability Mesh as a new Architecture Pattern
7. What is an Agent? “Autonomous, Goal-oriented computational system that operates in an environment to perform tasks on behalf of a user, role or another program”
8. (Gen) AI Agents Ref : Software 2.0 and Software 3.0 by Andrej Karpathy
9. (Multi-) Agentic System
10. (Gen) Agentic AI
11. Travel Planning Plan a 5-day Amsterdam to Barcelona trip. Strict budget: €1500 (flights, lodging, activities). Generate a detailed itinerary focusing on historical sites and local food. Include the three cheapest flight options and three budget accommodations (hostels/budget hotels).
12. (Gen) AI Involvement • Goal Identification • Goal Break-down • Context Enrichment • Agent Selection * • Agent Execution * • Result Aggregation
13. Same Problem, Different Solution?
14. 2010 Hype of Microservice Architecture How do Microservices communicate with each other. Is there a way to abstract the integration?
15. Service Mesh Architecture
16. Service Mesh Emerging from “Service to Service” Communication • Communication Management • Service Discovery • Resilience and Failure Handling
17. Agent Router
18. Challenges
19. Unifying Agent Communication
20. Model Context Protocol
21. Unifying Agent Communication
22. Agent Registry
23. Service Discovery
24. Agent Discovery • MCP Registry ◦ List ◦ Search / Filter ◦ Full Meta-Data Detail ▪ MCP Description ▪ List of provided Procedures • Single source of Truth
25. Service Mesh to Capability Mesh
26. Authorization Dilemma
27. Non-Deterministic Nature of Selection Achieving the Goal with Maximum(!) Autonomy
28. Human in the Loop Ref : Zombies in the Loop? by Sebastian Krügel
29. Human on the Loop
30. Policy as Code
31. Ref : Self-Contained Systems from Innoq Self-Contained Agents
32. Capability Mesh
33. Capability Mesh
34. Capability Mesh
35. What makes Capability-Mesh different?
36. Capability (Agent) Mesh Implementation
37. Questions? https://www.linkedin.com/in/makan1869/