I’ve been working on the A2A Utils [1] package, a comprehensive set of utility functions for using A2A servers (remote agents). It has been three weeks in the making, and is based on nearly a year’s experience using A2A servers in production. The A2A MCP Server [2] and OpenClaw A2A Plugin [3] are wrappers around it, and it will power other packages in the near future. If you are planning on using A2A servers, I highly encourage you to read through the documentation for 30 minutes. I promise it will save you at least 10x that time!

A quick introduction to A2A. A2A standardises agent discovery, communication, and authentication. The protocol introduces the concept of an Agent Card, a JSON object containing the agent’s name, description, skills, accepted inputs, outputs, and authentication methods. It also defines a Message, a Task (a unit of work), an Artifact (the output of a Task), and a Part (a fundamental object for Messages and Artifacts that can represent text, data, and files).

Most people associate A2A with multi-agent systems, but it also serves as a framework for deploying agents. You get a standardised API endpoint for sending text, data, and files from any A2A compatible SDK, UI, or app. Agent Cards can be used to catalog and search agents. And A2A was explicitly designed for long-running, asynchronous tasks with support for polling, streaming, and webhooks. To learn more, see What is A2A? [4]

Check the GitHub discussion out, where I compare sending a Message and polling a Task with the A2A SDK and A2A Utils. I think it's much more elegant! I would love to hear your thoughts and welcome feedback.

Links:

[1] A2A Utils: https://github.com/a2anet/a2a-utils [2] A2A MCP Server: https://github.com/a2anet/a2a-mcp [3] OpenClaw A2A Plugin: https://github.com/a2anet/openclaw-a2a-plugin [4] What is A2A?: https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/#core-ben...

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