# The Cost of Saying Hello: An Empirical Study of Handshake Overhead in AI Agent Communication Protocols

**Published:** October 23, 2026
**Author:** Pranav Varshney
**Source:** arXiv — cs.AI
**Language:** en-US
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arXiv:2610.30151v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Every interaction between AI agents begins with a handshake: the initiating agent must locate its counterpart, learn what it can do, and establish a session before the first useful message can be sent. Surveys of agent…

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