A2A and Agent Interop — Honestly Sized

What the Agent2Agent protocol actually specifies — agent cards, tasks, artifacts, three bindings — who verifiably ships it, and the architect’s question that comes first: are you crossing a real organisational boundary, or building a supervisor-worker system inside one stack?

Content current as of 2026-09.

Lessons

  1. The problem: delegation across a boundary
  2. Agent cards, discovery, and the three bindings
  3. Tasks, messages, and artifacts
  4. Adoption reality, as of September 2026
  5. Alternatives, adjacent efforts, and the architect’s question