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How the A2A Protocol Enables AI Agents to Collaborate

June 18, 2025•Heiko Hotz, Sokratis Kartakis•Original Link•2 minutes
AI Agents
Multi-Agent Systems
A2A Protocol

The article explores the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol, a framework designed to facilitate collaboration between AI agents, addressing interoperability challenges in multi-agent systems.

The Challenge of AI Agent Collaboration
As AI agents become more prevalent, a critical challenge emerges: how can independent agents, built by different teams using diverse technologies, effectively collaborate? Many AI announcements hype "agents" without addressing the fundamental engineering hurdles. Enterprises demand practical solutions—how can an accounting agent securely share data with a logistics agent, or a personal assistant delegate tasks to specialized agents without exposing proprietary logic? Currently, the answer often involves custom, brittle integrations, leading to a "digital Tower of Babel" where agents remain siloed.

Introducing the A2A Protocol
Google's Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol aims to solve these challenges by providing a standardized framework for agent communication. Key features include:

  • Agent Cards: Digital "business cards" that describe an agent's capabilities, contact details, and skills (e.g., StockInfoAgent for stock price data).
  • Task-Based Collaboration: Agents interact via stateful tasks, exchanging messages and artifacts (e.g., files or structured data) asynchronously.
  • Security & Privacy: Leverages existing web standards (HTTP, OpenAPI) for authentication and data protection, ensuring enterprise readiness.
  • Opaque Execution: Agents collaborate without revealing internal logic, preserving intellectual property.

A2A vs. MCP: Complementary Standards
While A2A focuses on agent-to-agent communication, Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes interactions between agents and external tools (e.g., APIs, databases). For example:

  • MCP: An agent uses a structured get_weather tool call to fetch data synchronously.
  • A2A: A host agent delegates a high-level task (e.g., "Summarize market trends") to another agent via natural-language messages.

Real-World Workflow Example

  1. A user asks a host agent for Google's stock price.
  2. The host agent delegates the task via A2A to a StockInfoAgent.
  3. The StockInfoAgent uses MCP to call a stock price API, then returns the result via A2A.
  4. The host agent presents the final output to the user.

Future Directions
Key challenges ahead include:

  • Agent Discoverability: Building registries or "agent stores" to help agents find each other dynamically.
  • Emergent Capabilities: Addressing unlisted skills agents develop through tool combinations (e.g., disaster evacuation planning).
  • Scalability: Federated "agent meshes" for large organizations, akin to data mesh architectures.

Conclusion
A2A and MCP represent critical steps toward interoperable AI ecosystems. By standardizing collaboration and tool use, they pave the way for complex, real-world multi-agent systems—though challenges like discovery and emergent behaviors remain open questions.

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