a2a-protocol-guide

a2a-protocol-guide is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection. It costs 106 tokens per session (2,269 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A French-language guide to Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol, or A2A, which lets AI agents discover, communicate, and delegate work to one another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when designing or implementing Agent Cards, delegated tasks, artifacts, messages, authentication, and agent interoperability with A2A.
Why use it?
Agents need shared formats for describing capabilities, sending tasks, and returning results. The guide explains those parts and common implementation pitfalls.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when designing or implementing Agent Cards, delegated tasks, artifacts, messages, authentication, and agent interoperability with A2A.

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Any agent
npx skills add khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection --skill a2a-protocol-guide
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 106 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,269 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00106 $0.02269
Opus 5 $0.00053 $0.01135
Sonnet 5 $0.00021 $0.00454
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00227

Measured 10d ago against content hash e2d7e967800a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2a-protocol-guide 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 10d 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.

agent-skills/a2a-protocol-guide/SKILL.md · 243 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 243 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Guide du Protocole A2A

Concepts fondamentaux

Composant Rôle
Agent Card Fichier JSON décrivant l'agent (skills, endpoint, auth) — publié sur /.well-known/agent.json
Task Unité de travail délégué ; cycle : submitted → working → completed / failed / canceled
Artifact Résultat produit par une tâche (fichier, JSON, message)
Part Fragment d'un message ou artifact : TextPart, FilePart, DataPart
Client / Server Un agent peut être les deux selon la direction de l'appel

Workflow en étapes

1. Définir l'Agent Card

Fichier minimal exposé sur GET /.well-known/agent.json :

{
  "name": "DataExtractorAgent",
  "description": "Extrait des données structurées depuis des documents PDF",
  "url": "https://agent.example.com/a2a",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "capabilities": {
    "streaming": true,
    "pushNotifications": false
  },
  "authentication": {
    "schemes": ["Bearer"]
  },
  "skills": [
    {
      "id": "extract-invoice",
      "name": "Invoice Extraction",
      "description": "Retourne les champs clés d'une facture PDF",
      "examples": ["Extrais les montants de cette facture"],
      "inputModes": ["application/pdf"],
      "outputModes": ["application/json"]
    }
  ]
}

Critère de décision — streaming : active streaming: true si les tâches durent > 5 s ou produisent des résultats progressifs. Sinon, mode synchrone suffit.


2. Implémenter le serveur A2A (JSON-RPC 2.0)

Endpoint unique POST /a2a — méthodes requises :

Méthode Usage
tasks/send Tâche synchrone (réponse directe)
tasks/sendSubscribe Tâche longue — SSE stream
tasks/get Consulter statut + artifacts
tasks/cancel Annuler une tâche en cours
# FastAPI — squelette minimal
from fastapi import FastAPI, Request
from fastapi.responses import JSONResponse, StreamingResponse
import uuid, asyncio

app = FastAPI()

tasks_store = {}  # En prod : Redis ou DB

@app.post("/a2a")
async def a2a_handler(request: Request):
    body = await request.json()
    method = body.get("method")
    params = body.get("params", {})
    rpc_id = body.get("id")

    if method == "tasks/send":
        task_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
        result = await run_task(params)
        tasks_store[task_id] = {"status": "completed", "result": result}
        return JSONResponse({
            "jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rpc_id,
            "result": {"id": task_id, "status": {"state": "completed"}, "artifacts": [result]}
        })

    if method == "tasks/get":
        task_id = params["id"]
        task = tasks_store.get(task_id)
        if not task:
            return JSONResponse({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rpc_id,
                                 "error": {"code": -32001, "message": "Task not found"}})
        return JSONResponse({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rpc_id, "result": task})

    return JSONResponse({"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": rpc_id,
                         "error": {"code": -32601, "message": "Method not found"}})

Read the full file on GitHub · 243 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. 10d ago First seen · 243 lines · 106 tokens per session scan A e2d7e967800a

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a2a-protocol-guide is a skill published in the GitHub repository khalilbenaz/claude-skills-collection (22 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 106 tokens to every session and 2,269 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-30.

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