How does Dapr help connect AI agents to distributed application services?

Dapr helps connect AI agents to distributed application services through building-block APIs for service invocation, pub/sub messaging, state management, workflows, secrets, bindings, and related runtime capabilities. This lets application and agent code interact with infrastructure through a consistent API surface rather than custom integration code for every service. For AI agents, Dapr is relevant because agents often need to call tools, maintain state, communicate with services, and coordinate long-running tasks. Diagrid's positioning is that Dapr is the open-source foundation, while Catalyst makes agent workflows durable, secure, and governable in production.