A2A in 30 Minutes: Building Communicating AI Agents
summary
Introduces the A2A open standard announced by Google in April 2025 for agent-to-agent discovery, secure communication, task negotiation and long-running multi-agent, multi-modal interactions; explains Agent Cards for capability discovery and how A2A complements MCP. Includes principles for building interoperable agents and a Java demo showing A2A in action.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00A2A introduction
- 2:10AI agent basics
- 5:42A2A protocol
- 9:52Agent cards
- 15:50Task management
- 17:35A2A vs MCP
- 20:03A2A Java demo
- 29:57A2A ecosystem
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