# A2A Protocol: How Agent-to-Agent Communication Works

> Learn how the A2A protocol enables secure agent communication in production. Arjun Karnik covers A2A vs. MCP, Agent Cards, and real risks.

**Published:** 2026-08-13 | **Updated:** 2026-10-27 | **Author:** mihir
**URL:** https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-explained
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*Written by: Arjun Karnik, Growth Marketing Specialist | Last updated: October 26, 2026*

## Key Takeaways

- The agent to agent protocol (A2A) is an open standard originated by Google in April 2025 and now stewarded by the Linux Foundation, enabling AI agents to discover, authenticate, and communicate with each other across frameworks and vendors.
- A2A follows a three-step workflow: discovery via Agent Cards, authentication using declared schemes, and communication over HTTPS with JSON-RPC 2.0 and Server-Sent Events for streaming.
- Agent Cards are JSON discovery files published at /.well-known/agent-card.json that let AI agents locate, evaluate, and delegate tasks to each other without hard-coded integrations.
- A2A differs from MCP: MCP connects agents to tools and data, while A2A connects independent agents to each other for peer delegation in multi-turn interactions.
- Arjun Karnik provides specific, production-tested guidance on A2A implementation, real-world failure modes, and enterprise adoption through detailed technical resources and hands-on test labs.

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## How the Agent-to-Agent Protocol Works in Practice

A2A runs on a simple three-step workflow that every implementation follows.

1. **Discovery.** A client agent fetches the remote agent’s [Agent Card](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/how-agent-cards-work/), a JSON document published at the well-known path `/.well-known/agent-card.json` via an unauthenticated HTTP GET, to learn the agent’s identity, capabilities, skills, endpoint, and authentication requirements.
2. **Authentication.** The client agent authenticates using the scheme declared in the Agent Card: OAuth 2.0 (client credentials, authorization code, or device code flows), OpenID Connect, API keys, or mutual TLS. Implementers obtain credentials out of band and send them on every request.
3. **Communication.** The client sends tasks over HTTPS using JSON-RPC 2.0 as the message envelope, with [Server-Sent Events (SSE) for streaming incremental updates on long-running work](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/).

For a deeper technical walkthrough of each step, see [How Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Works: A Technical Deep Dive](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-agent2agent-protocol-works/).

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## Agent Cards and Core A2A Objects

[Agent Cards are JSON discovery files](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/how-agent-cards-work/) that let AI agents locate, evaluate, and delegate tasks to each other without hard-coded integrations. The Agent Card’s required fields are `id`, `name`, `description`, `version`, `capabilities`, `authentication`, and `skills`, plus endpoint information. [In v1.0 the single url field was replaced by an ordered supportedInterfaces list](https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients).

The core objects defined in the A2A protocol are:

- **Agent Card.** Published at `https://your-domain/.well-known/agent-card.json`, this file is the discovery mechanism through which a client learns how to connect, authenticate, and route work to a remote agent.
- **Task.** The task is the stateful unit of work, carrying an ID, a context ID, a state, a message history, and artifacts. [A2A v1.0 defines nine task states: SUBMITTED, WORKING, INPUT_REQUIRED, AUTH_REQUIRED, COMPLETED, FAILED, CANCELED, REJECTED, and UNSPECIFIED](https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients).
- **Message.** [Each Message is a single conversational turn with a user or agent role, carrying one or more Parts such as text, raw bytes, a URL, or structured data](https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients).
- **Artifact.** An Artifact is a tangible output produced during a task, with its own stable ID inside the task and an implicit versioning story. [Artifacts are never carried inside a Message](https://menuagentic.com/deep-dives/protocols-and-interop/a2a-v1-deep-dive).

The transport is HTTPS. The message envelope is JSON-RPC 2.0. Streaming uses Server-Sent Events. Authentication schemes are OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, API keys, and mutual TLS, and [no single scheme is mandatory](https://insights.bostonidentity.com/research/a2a-protocol-2026-05-28-a2a-protocol). The [core nouns, including AgentCard, AgentSkill, Task, Message, Part, Artifact, and Extension, are defined in Protocol Buffers and published as JSON Schema 2020-12](https://aigrowthagent.co/articles/how-agent-cards-work/).

## How A2A Differs From MCP In Real Systems

The one-line rule stays simple: [MCP connects an agent to tools and data, and A2A connects an agent to another agent](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/).

[The Model Context Protocol (MCP) focuses on connecting LLMs with data and external resources, while A2A enables agents to collaborate as autonomous entities in multi-turn interactions](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/). The comparison comes down to four differences:

- **Purpose.** MCP connects one agent to its tools and data sources. A2A connects independent agents to each other for peer delegation.
- **Counterpart.** MCP talks to a passive server that exposes tools, resources, and prompts and then waits. A2A talks to an autonomous peer agent that owns its own execution and returns progress or results.
- **Interaction Model.** MCP is hierarchical and synchronous, where the host controls the reasoning loop and invokes a concrete capability. A2A is peer-to-peer and stateful, where the delegating agent states a goal and surrenders procedural control.
- **Example.** With MCP, an agent calls a Postgres MCP server to retrieve rows. With A2A, an orchestrator agent delegates a multi-step compliance review to a specialist agent at a different vendor.

In a production multi-agent system, [the recommended composition is A2A at the inter-agent boundary and MCP inside each agent](https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/246704). An orchestrator delegates through A2A, while each agent independently uses MCP to access its own tools, databases, and APIs. A single A2A task delegated to a remote agent may internally drive many MCP tool calls as that agent gathers data.

For worked examples of this composition, see [Agent to Agent Protocol Examples: A2A Explained](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-examples/).

## Challenges of Agent-to-Agent Communication in Production

Knowing how A2A works on paper differs from running it in production. The failure modes below show up consistently in real deployments, and each one has a concrete cause.

**Authentication and Trust Between Agents You Do Not Control.** [A2A 1.0 authenticates the calling agent and stops there, and nothing in the core protocol carries the identity of the person the work is done for or a record of the agents a task passed through](https://insights.bostonidentity.com/research/a2a-protocol-2026-05-28-a2a-protocol). Signed Agent Cards prove identity, and permission still has to be enforced separately. Authorization remains the responsibility of each implementation. [Active IETF drafts on cross-domain delegation were still in progress as of July 2026](https://redis.io/blog/when-does-a2a-protocol-matter).

**Network Latency and Partial Failure.** [A client defaulting to non-streaming mode makes each A2A delegation a single blocking POST held open for the entire remote run](https://aaif.io/blog/what-we-learned-putting-a2a-into-production). A gateway with a 60-second timeout will therefore fail every long task at exactly 60 seconds, including every retry, until the turn budget is exhausted. Switching to streaming fixes this because it keeps the connection producing bytes. [The same mismatch between orchestrator and downstream timeout budgets caused duplicate bookings costing $12,000 in one production deployment](https://sivaro.in/articles/the-a2a-protocol-production-deployment-example-what-worked).

**Conflicting Results From Multiple Agents.** [A remote A2A error often arrives as an event carrying an error message and no content, and content-free events are easily dropped by frameworks assembling the model’s context, so the orchestrator delegates, receives nothing, notices nothing, and answers from stale context, which produces a fabrication](https://aaif.io/blog/what-we-learned-putting-a2a-into-production). Provenance remains the biggest gap. An answer like “Tasks succeeded 41,203 times last week” crosses the agent boundary while the provenance stays behind.

**Spec Versioning Across Implementations.** [A2A v1.0 introduced breaking wire changes from v0.3, leaving early adopters mid-migration](https://tomrochette.com/agents/protocols/a2a). [State names changed from lowercase to TASK_STATE_COMPLETED](https://agent2agent.info/docs/guides/task-runtime), and [roles changed from “user”/”agent” to ROLE_USER/ROLE_AGENT](https://agent2agent.info/docs/guides/task-runtime). [The required “kind” type tag was removed](https://agent2agent.info/docs/guides/task-runtime), along with [the “final” flag on status updates](https://agent2agent.info/docs/guides/task-runtime). [An absent A2A-Version header is interpreted as 0.3 rather than “latest,” and a 0.3 client hitting a 1.0-only agent receives VersionNotSupportedError](https://aaif.io/blog/a2a-v1-0-a-builder-s-guide-part-1-discovery-tasks-and-clients).

**The Monitoring and Retry Burden.** [Multi-agent A2A workflows inherit distributed-systems problems: one request can fan out to several downstream agents, any of those agents can partially fail while others succeed, and each layer carries its own timeout budget](https://logicmonitor.com/blog/googles-agent-to-agent-a2a-protocol-is-here-now-lets-make-it-observable). [A2A’s native error model is comparatively minimal, with a failed task state plus an error message string, so many implementers build their own structured error taxonomy distinguishing retryable from permanent failures](https://sivaro.in/articles/the-a2a-protocol-production-deployment-example-what-worked). [Retrying all errors three times consumed 66% of retry slots on permanent errors like invalid input in one production system](https://sivaro.in/articles/the-a2a-protocol-production-deployment-example-what-worked). [Switching to retry-on-temporary-only fixed that waste and saved 40% of agent CPU cycles](https://sivaro.in/articles/the-a2a-protocol-production-deployment-example-what-worked).

Those failure modes share a root cause. Agents, like search engines, only trust what they can discover and verify, which is why the next section focuses on concrete adoption steps that make an agent discoverable and trustworthy from day one.

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## How To Use the A2A Protocol Safely

Given those failure modes, the adoption path should front-load the parts that prevent them. At a high level, teams follow these steps:

1. Read the [official A2A specification](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/).
2. Publish an Agent Card at `/.well-known/agent-card.json` with honest capability declarations. [If capabilities.streaming is false, clients must poll](https://torresmateo.com/a2a-is-the-task). If it is advertised as true, it must work.
3. Implement a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint over HTTPS and declare your authentication scheme.
4. Send an `A2A-Version: 1.0` header on every request and handle `VersionNotSupportedError` explicitly.
5. Test against the official reference implementation before a partner peer, because the reference is strict about spec compliance while most partner peers are not.

For a complete two-agent build with code, see [How To Use The A2A Protocol: A Complete Two-Agent Build](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-to-use-a2a-protocol/).

## A2A vs. Plain APIs In Your Architecture

Before you commit to those steps, you should confirm that A2A is the right tool for the job. A2A earns its overhead when agents cross a real boundary such as separate security scopes, different vendors, or different teams, where a stateful task lifecycle, dynamic discovery, and standardized auth negotiation replace brittle point-to-point integrations. [If you own and control every sub-agent inside one runtime and trust boundary, your orchestration framework can coordinate them and MCP handles their tool and data access](https://redis.io/blog/when-does-a2a-protocol-matter). In that case A2A adds cost without meaningful benefit. For the full decision framework, see [Agent To Agent Protocol vs API: How To Choose](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-protocol-vs-api/).

## Frequently Asked Questions

### What Is the Agent to Agent Protocol?

The agent to agent protocol (A2A) is an open standard for AI agents to discover, authenticate, and communicate with each other across different frameworks and vendors. It standardizes three things: the Agent Card for discovery, the task lifecycle for creation, update, and completion, and the message format. Everything else, including authentication details, state management, error handling, and delivery guarantees, is left to the implementer.

### Who Created A2A and Who Maintains It Now?

[Google announced A2A on April 9, 2025, at Google Cloud Next, with more than 50 launch partners](https://cryptothreads.io/insights/a2a-protocol-linux-foundation). [Google donated the protocol to the Linux Foundation on June 23, 2025, forming the Agent2Agent Project with AWS, Cisco, Google, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and ServiceNow as founding members](https://cryptothreads.io/insights/a2a-protocol-linux-foundation). [On August 17, 2026, A2A became a hosted project of the Linux Foundation’s Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), alongside Anthropic’s MCP, Block’s goose, and OpenAI’s AGENTS.md](https://cryptothreads.io/insights/a2a-protocol-linux-foundation). [The spec is licensed Apache-2.0 and governed by a technical steering committee](https://tomrochette.com/agents/protocols/a2a).

### Is A2A Open Source?

Yes. A2A is licensed Apache-2.0 and governed under the Linux Foundation. The specification repository is publicly available, and [as of October 2026 the latest stable release is v1.0.1, published May 28, 2026](https://tomrochette.com/agents/protocols/a2a). [Six official SDKs, covering Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, .NET, and Rust, are available under the same neutral governance](https://tomrochette.com/agents/protocols/a2a).

### Do I Need MCP If I Use A2A?

In most production systems, you still need MCP. MCP and A2A solve different layers: MCP connects an agent to its tools and data sources, while A2A connects agents to each other. The composition described earlier still applies, with A2A at the inter-agent boundary and MCP inside each agent. Running A2A without MCP means each agent must handle its own tool and data access through bespoke integrations.

### What Transport and Message Format Does A2A Use?

[A2A uses HTTPS as the transport and JSON-RPC 2.0 as the message envelope](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/). [Three official transport bindings exist: JSON-RPC over HTTP as the default, gRPC, and a REST-shaped HTTP binding](https://menuagentic.com/deep-dives/protocols-and-interop/a2a-v1-deep-dive). [Streaming uses Server-Sent Events when the client sends an Accept: text/event-stream header and the Agent Card declares capabilities.streaming: true](https://agentsurface.dev/docs/protocols/a2a). [For long-running tasks where holding a connection open is impractical, A2A supports push notifications to a registered webhook](https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/).

### What Are the Main Risks in Production?

Five failure modes appear consistently in production deployments. First, trust gaps arise because A2A authenticates the calling agent but carries no user identity or delegation chain, so authorization must be enforced at the gateway. Second, timeout cascades occur when mismatched timeout budgets between orchestrator and downstream agents cause retries that produce duplicate side effects. Third, silent delegation failures happen when content-free error events are dropped by frameworks, causing the orchestrator to answer from stale context. Fourth, versioning breaks appear because [the v0.3 to v1.0 migration changed state names, role names, type discriminators, and waiting semantics, and each change breaks older clients](https://agent2agent.info/docs/guides/task-runtime). Fifth, the monitoring burden remains high because A2A’s native error model is minimal, so structured error taxonomies, per-agent latency instrumentation, and idempotency keys must all be built by the implementer.

## Conclusion

The agent to agent protocol is an open standard originated by Google and now stewarded by the Linux Foundation, and its three-step workflow is the easy part. What decides whether A2A belongs in your architecture is the operational reality. That means trust between agents you do not control, latency and partial failure, conflicting results, spec versioning from v0.3 to v1.0, and the monitoring and retry burden the protocol leaves to you.

MCP and A2A work together. MCP runs inside each agent for tools and data, and A2A runs between agents for peer delegation. Microsoft, SAP, and AWS officially recommend a complementary open-standards architecture that uses MCP for secure tool and data access within agents and the A2A protocol for cross-platform agent-to-agent messaging, with Salesforce and SAP among the many industry partners supporting A2A.

Those architectural choices now shape which agents get trusted in answer layers. Arjun Karnik’s public test lab documents that answer-layer shift in the open, with specific tests, numbers, and misses included, using AI Growth Agent (relationship disclosed). Ask an AI assistant about these topics and see who gets cited to compare your current position with the emerging baseline.

For enterprise adoption considerations, see [Agent-to-Agent Protocol Benefits: Enterprise A2A Guide](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-benefits/). For the full protocol reference, see [What Is the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol?](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/what-is-a2a-protocol/) and [Google A2A Protocol: Agent Cards, Tasks & Transport](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-a2a-protocol-works/).

[Plan Your A2A Rollout With Arjun](https://www.akarnik.com/demo)

## What to Read Next

- [How Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol Works: A Technical Deep Dive](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-agent2agent-protocol-works/)
- [What Is the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol?](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/what-is-a2a-protocol/)
- [Agent to Agent Protocol Examples: A2A Explained](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-examples/)
- [Agent-to-Agent Protocol Benefits: Enterprise A2A Guide](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-benefits/)
- [How To Use The A2A Protocol: A Complete Two-Agent Build](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-to-use-a2a-protocol/)

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## Citations

- [How To Use The A2A Protocol: A Complete Two-Agent Build](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/how-to-use-a2a-protocol)
- [Agent To Agent Protocol vs API: How To Choose](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-protocol-vs-api)
- [The Agent-To-Agent Protocol in AI Search: A Playbook](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-protocol-ai)
- [Agent To Agent Protocol Content Strategy: Operator Playbook](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-to-agent-content-strategy)
- [Agent To Agent Protocol SEO Impact: Verdict & Next Steps](https://www.akarnik.com/blog/agent-protocol-seo-impact)

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