a2a-topics

a2a-topics is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gke-labs/kube-agents. It costs 117 tokens per session (1,407 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A shared, durable record of what software agents know about a fleet or environment. Agents publish named updates there so later agents can read who recorded each fact and when.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps agents look up upgrade readiness, environment details, and dated operational notes before starting a fresh investigation.
Why use it?
It prevents agents from repeating checks that another agent has already completed, while making clear that a result is an earlier report rather than a new diagnosis.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps agents look up upgrade readiness, environment details, and dated operational notes before starting a fresh investigation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gke-labs/kube-agents/a2a-topics
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add gke-labs/kube-agents --skill a2a-topics
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gke-labs/kube-agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 117 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,407 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 unknown No closer match found 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 $0.00117 $0.01407
Opus 5 $0.00059 $0.00704
Sonnet 5 $0.00023 $0.00281
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00141

Measured today against content hash d399cde59f97, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2a-topics 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 today.

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.

a2a/persona/platform/skills/a2a-topics/SKILL.md · 142 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 142 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A2A topics: the standing state other agents left you

A topic is a durable, named place on the bus where one agent publishes what it currently knows, so the next question starts from standing state instead of a cold diagnosis. Tasks are conversations; topics are the blackboard.

Two things this skill exists to prevent. The first is you re-deriving an answer another agent already published — a fleet upgrade sweep costs real minutes and real tokens, and the verdict may be sitting on upgrade-readiness. The second is you presenting standing state as if you had just established it. Every entry carries who wrote it and when, and you relay both.

Prerequisites

The bus address and credentials come from the environment: NATS_URL, NATS_USER, NATS_PASSWORD. If they are unset, this install is not running the A2A bus — say so plainly and answer the question another way. Do not attempt to guess an address.

The client is a2a, on PATH (/usr/local/bin/a2a, shipped in the agent image alongside this skill). Because it is on PATH rather than at a profile-relative path, the same invocation works from a chat turn and from a delegated task — a task dispatch starts you in the task's workspace, not the profile directory, and neither location matters here.

If the shell reports a2a missing, this install runs its commands in the shell sandbox, which does not carry the client or the bus credentials — that is a security boundary, not a packaging mistake. Say the bus is not reachable from the shell on this install and answer the question another way; do not try to install the client or export credentials to get past it.

Workflows

1. Find out what exists

a2a topics list

Topics are provisioned configuration — the set is rendered by the operator, and nothing you do invents a new one. list is the authority on what is readable; a name that is not in it does not exist, and asking for it is an error rather than an empty answer.

The CLASS column matters when you read:

Read the full file on GitHub · 142 lines

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. today First seen · 142 lines · 117 tokens per session scan A d399cde59f97

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a2a-topics is a skill published in the GitHub repository gke-labs/kube-agents (54 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 117 tokens to every session and 1,407 once invoked, about $0.0006 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-12.

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