cli-a2a

cli-a2a is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alrcatraz/astra-aigate. It costs 43 tokens per session (567 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cli-a2a, MIT.

A command-line tool for communicating with an Agent-to-Agent (A2A) server, a service that lets AI agents exchange tasks. It also uses JSON-RPC 2.0, a structured format for sending requests and responses.

In plain words
What is it for?
Checking server status, viewing its agent description and available skills, sending skill requests, listing or inspecting tasks, cancelling tasks, and watching task progress.
Why use it?
It removes the need to inspect server state or run agent tasks through custom requests and scripts.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Checking server status, viewing its agent description and available skills, sending skill requests, listing or inspecting tasks, cancelling tasks, and watching task progress.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alrcatraz/astra-aigate/cli-a2a
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add alrcatraz/astra-aigate --skill cli-a2a
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alrcatraz/astra-aigate

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 43 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 567 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00043 $0.00567
Opus 5.5 $0.00017 $0.00227
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00113
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00057

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 0a19e329dae2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cli-a2a scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cli-a2a — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cli-a2a/SKILL.md · 143 lines

What it actually says

Overview

Interact with the OmniRoute A2A server from the CLI. Send tasks, inspect skill execution history, and test the JSON-RPC 2.0 agent-to-agent protocol interactively.

Quick install

npm install -g omniroute   # or: npx omniroute
omniroute --version

Subcommands

a2a

Agent-to-Agent (A2A) server

Example:

omniroute a2a

a2a status

Show A2A server status

Flags:

  • --json

Example:

omniroute a2a status

a2a card

Print the Agent Card JSON

Example:

omniroute a2a card

a2a skills

Example:

omniroute a2a skills

a2a invoke <skill>

Flags:

  • --input <json>
  • --input-file <path>
  • --wait
  • --timeout <ms>

Example:

omniroute a2a invoke <skill>

a2a tasks

Example:

omniroute a2a tasks

a2a list

Flags:

  • --status <s>
  • --skill <s>
  • --limit <n>
  • --since <ts>

Example:

omniroute a2a list

a2a get <id>

Example:

omniroute a2a get <id>

a2a cancel <id>

Flags:

  • --yes

Example:

omniroute a2a cancel <id>

a2a watch <id>

Example:

omniroute a2a watch <id>

a2a stream <id>

Example:

omniroute a2a stream <id>

a2a logs <id>

Example:

omniroute a2a logs <id>
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 143 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A 0a19e329dae2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cli-a2a is a skill published in the GitHub repository alrcatraz/astra-aigate (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 567 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cli-a2a, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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