a2a-testing

a2a-testing is a skill for Claude Code from OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins. It costs 50 tokens per session (873 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A testing guide for A2A implementations, where agents exchange tasks through a shared communication standard. It covers isolated unit tests, HTTP integration tests, protocol compliance, mock agents, and end-to-end multi-agent tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to test A2A servers and clients, validate Agent Cards, check JSON-RPC requests and responses, test supported methods, and exercise conversations between multiple agents.
Why use it?
It helps find errors in agent logic, task state changes, message formats, authentication, streaming, and required protocol behavior before deployment.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the a2a-multi-agent plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to test A2A servers and clients, validate Agent Cards, check JSON-RPC requests and responses, test supported methods, and exercise conversations between multiple agents.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/orcaqubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins/a2a-testing
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 OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins --skill a2a-testing
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install a2a-multi-agent, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 873 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 $0.00050 $0.00873
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00349
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00175
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00087

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6f4a4164443e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

a2a-testing 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.

a2a-multi-agent/skills/a2a-testing/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

A2A Testing

Before writing code

Fetch live docs:

  1. Fetch https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/specification/ for protocol requirements to test against
  2. Web-search site:github.com a2aproject A2A testing conformance for testing tools and guidance
  3. Web-search site:github.com a2aproject a2a-samples test for test examples
  4. Fetch SDK docs for test utilities, mock classes, and test helpers

Conceptual Architecture

Testing Levels

A2A implementations need testing at multiple levels:

1. Unit Tests

Test individual components in isolation:

  • Agent handler logic (given input message, verify output)
  • Task state management (verify state transitions)
  • Message/Part construction and parsing
  • Agent Card validation
  • Error code generation
2. Integration Tests

Test the A2A server with a real HTTP stack:

  • Send JSON-RPC requests, verify responses
  • Test all supported methods (message/send, tasks/get, etc.)
  • Verify Agent Card serving at /.well-known/agent-card.json
  • Test authentication flows
  • Test streaming with SSE client
3. Protocol Conformance Tests

Verify compliance with the A2A specification:

  • All required methods are implemented
  • Request/response schemas match the spec
  • Error codes are correct
  • State transitions follow the rules
  • Agent Card schema is valid
4. End-to-End Tests

Test full multi-agent workflows:

  • Client discovers agent via Agent Card
  • Client sends task, agent processes, client receives result
  • Multi-turn conversations complete successfully
  • Error scenarios are handled gracefully
  • Multiple agents collaborate on a complex task

Mock Agents

For testing clients, create mock A2A servers that:

  • Return predefined responses
  • Simulate different task states
  • Simulate errors and failures
  • Simulate slow responses and timeouts
  • Support streaming with controlled events

For testing servers, create mock A2A clients that:

  • Send various message types and parts
  • Exercise multi-turn flows
  • Send invalid requests to test error handling
  • Simulate disconnections during streaming

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 1mo ago First seen · 114 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 6f4a4164443e

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a2a-testing is a skill published in the GitHub repository OrcaQubits/agentic-commerce-skills-plugins (39 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 873 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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