A2A is an open protocol that […] empowers developers to build agents capable of connecting with any other agent built using the protocol and offers users the flexibility to combine agents from various providers. Critically, businesses benefit from a standardized method for managing their agents across diverse platforms and cloud environments. We believe this universal interoperability is essential for fully realizing the potential of collaborative AI agents.

I think it’d be nice if this worked, but I’m certainly skeptical right now. One of the big things about how agents are supposed to do better than a standard worfklow is that they can work with highly ambiguous APIs (a.k.a., no API), so whether working against that talent will help improve accuracy or stall adoption remains to be seen.

Put another way, it would be nice if we had a standard way to communicate, but we all know these systems don’t talk to each other well for a reason. This may well be just another standard if there isn’t significant resources behind its adoption, and that part I certainly can’t tell.