Well, there is quite some difference between what the agile manifesto describes and what the 5000-page Agile Handbook (TM) of some international consulting firm describes.
Dave Thomas, one of the creators of the agile manifesto, has a talk where he expresses his disappointment with consultants twisting the manifesto into a cult-like industry.
He calls this the agile industrial complex and says that anyone using agile with capital A is not referring to the manifesto but the industry and are selling you that.
Well, for me it isn't? I don't do project work, I am a maintainer at heart. If I am doing my job well, anybody who I think of as my customer will be happy if they need to interact with me as little as possible, because my well documented processes and tools are on-point :D
