a2a-protocol

a2a-protocol is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge. It costs 22 tokens per session (703 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An implementation of Agent2Agent, a standard way for AI agents to discover one another, exchange messages, and manage shared tasks. It supports agent descriptions, remote task status, live updates, and common forms of authentication.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to register an agent, inspect another agent's description, list remote agents, send messages, submit tasks, check task results, or receive streaming updates.
Why use it?
It removes the need to build a separate communication format for every pair of AI agents. One agent can find another agent's capabilities and send work to it through a shared protocol.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — built for openclaw. Also seen: built for openclaw.

Good fit Use it to register an agent, inspect another agent's description, list remote agents, send messages, submit tasks, check task results, or receive streaming updates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lord1egypt/awesome-skill-forge/a2a-protocol
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge --skill a2a-protocol
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 703 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 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 $0.00022 $0.00703
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00351
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00141
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00070

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3611f4c9abc0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2a-protocol 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 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.

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.

community/clawhub/a/a2a-protocol/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A2A Protocol Skill

Implementation of the Agent2Agent (A2A) Protocol for inter-agent communication.

What it does

  • Agent Discovery via Agent Cards
  • Send Messages to remote agents
  • Task Management (submit, check status, get results)
  • Streaming via Server-Sent Events (SSE)
  • Authentication support (API keys, Bearer tokens)

Installation

# Install Python dependencies
pip install requests sseclient-py

Usage

Register Your Agent

.\a2a.ps1 -Action register -Name "MyAgent" -Description "Research agent" -Capabilities "research,analysis" -Endpoint "https://my-agent.com/a2a"

Get Agent Card

.\a2a.ps1 -Action card -AgentId "uuid-of-agent"

Send Message

.\a2a.ps1 -Action send -ToAgent "target-agent-uuid" -Content "Hello agent!"

Submit Task

.\a2a.ps1 -Action task -ToAgent "target-agent-uuid" -Task "Research quantum computing"

Check Task Status

.\a2a.ps1 -Action status -TaskId "task-uuid"

List Remote Agents

.\a2a.ps1 -Action list -RegistryUrl "https://registry.agentlink.io"

A2A Concepts

  • Agent Card: JSON describing agent capabilities (name, endpoint, methods)
  • Client Agent: Agent that sends tasks
  • Remote Agent: Agent that receives and processes tasks
  • Task: Work request with ID, status, and result
  • Message: Direct communication between agents

API Reference

POST /a2a/agents/register - Register agent
GET  /a2a/agents/{id}    - Get agent info
GET  /a2a/agents/{id}/card - Get Agent Card
POST /a2a/messages       - Send message
POST /a2a/tasks          - Submit task
GET  /a2a/tasks/{id}     - Get task status
GET  /a2a/tasks/{id}/result - Get task result

Examples

Python Usage

from a2a import A2AClient

client = A2AClient("https://remote-agent.com/a2a", api_key="your-key")

# Send message
client.send_message("target-agent-id", "Hello!")

# Submit task
task_id = client.submit_task("target-agent-id", "Do X")
result = client.get_result(task_id)

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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 · 111 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 3611f4c9abc0

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a2a-protocol is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lord1Egypt/awesome-skill-forge (2 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 703 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.

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