a2a

a2a is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills. It costs 435 tokens per session (3,971 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pattern for letting software agents discover, communicate with, and delegate work to other agents through standardized protocols. A software agent is a program that can perform tasks on a user's or another system's behalf.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps build multi-agent systems with agent discovery, agent cards that describe capabilities, cross-service communication, delegation, remote calls, and cooperation across organizational boundaries.
Why use it?
It provides a common way for separate or specialized agents to work together without hard-coded connections or custom integration for every pair.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit It helps build multi-agent systems with agent discovery, agent cards that describe capabilities, cross-service communication, delegation, remote calls, and cooperation across organizational boundaries.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills/a2a
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 hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills --skill a2a
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 435 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,971 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original 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 $0.00435 $0.03971
Opus 5 $0.00217 $0.01985
Sonnet 5 $0.00087 $0.00794
Haiku 4.5 $0.00044 $0.00397

Measured 8d ago against content hash b02eb54dd2dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2a scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 8d 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.

Makes network callslowCapability

Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.

response = requests.get(f"{self.agent_url}/.well-known/agent.json", timeout=10)
Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • a2a — 100% identical, 3 lines differ
skills/a2a/SKILL.md · 439 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 439 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication Pattern

Overview

The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication Pattern enables autonomous agents to discover, communicate with, and delegate tasks to other agents using standardized protocols. Just as MCP standardizes tool integration, A2A standardizes how agents interact with each other — enabling federated, interoperable multi-agent systems across organizational and technical boundaries.

Core Principle: Agents should be first-class collaborators, not just tool callers — standardize how agents discover and communicate with each other.

When This Skill Applies

Activate this pattern when:

  • Multiple specialized agents need to collaborate across service boundaries
  • Agents from different organizations or teams must interoperate
  • Dynamic agent discovery is needed (don't hardcode agent endpoints)
  • Complex tasks require delegating sub-tasks to expert agents
  • You want to compose existing agents into new workflows without rewriting them
  • Agent capabilities need to be advertised and discoverable programmatically

Rule of thumb: Use A2A when your multi-agent system spans organizational boundaries, requires dynamic discovery, or must be interoperable with third-party agents.

A2A Architecture

Key Concepts

  • Agent Card: Machine-readable capability advertisement (what the agent can do)
  • Task: The unit of work delegated between agents
  • Artifact: Output produced by an agent for the requesting agent
  • Discovery: Finding agents by capability, not by hardcoded URL
  • Trust: Authentication and authorization between agents

A2A Communication Flow

Agent A (Client)                          Agent B (Server)
     │                                          │
     │──── Discover Agent Cards ──────────────►│
     │◄─── Agent Card (capabilities) ──────────│
     │                                          │
     │──── Send Task (with context) ──────────►│
     │◄─── Task Acknowledgment ────────────────│
     │                                          │
     │──── Poll for status ───────────────────►│
     │◄─── Status Update ──────────────────────│
     │                                          │
     │──── Get Result ────────────────────────►│
     │◄─── Artifact (result) ──────────────────│

Read the full file on GitHub · 439 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. 8d ago First seen · 439 lines · 435 tokens per session scan A b02eb54dd2dd

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a2a is a skill published in the GitHub repository hajekim/agentic-design-patterns-skills (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 435 tokens to every session and 3,971 once invoked, about $0.0022 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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