Mcp

The A2A (Agent-to-Agent) Protocol: How Agents Delegate to Each Other, and Where Payments Plug In

Every time this blog has covered x402, UCP and MPP or Know Your Agent, the term “A2A” showed up as an assumption. An agent hands work to another agent, pays for it, checks who the counterparty is. All of that sits on a lower layer: how do two agents talk in the first place? The attempt to standardize that layer is the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol.

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Open Knowledge Format: A Shared Vocabulary for Agent Knowledge

When AI agents fail in production, the model is often not the problem. The missing context is. Table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks, join paths between systems, and API deprecation notices are scattered across catalog vendors, internal wikis, code comments, and personal notes. Every agent developer solves the same context assembly problem from scratch.

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