Does anyone have any good resources on A2A in general?
https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ is the best place to start.
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#22I've been looking at all of the agent talk this past year with an open mind. But I still do not know what a real use case for these would be (and don't say a travel agent). What is the point of these swarms of agents? Can someone enlighten me?
I don't think devs can answer that one, you'll have to ask VCs
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#23Can someone please explain what this means? I'm familiar with agentic development workflows but have no clue what this means and what I can do with it? Is it something like n8n, to connect agents with some work flow and let the work flow do stuff for me?
openagents aims to build agent networks with "open" ecosystems, many agent systems these days are centered around workflows, but workflow is possible when you already know what kinds of agents will be there in your team. But when you allow any agent to join/leave a network, the workflow concept breaks, so this project helps developers to build a ecosystem for open collaboration.
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#24I've been looking at all of the agent talk this past year with an open mind. But I still do not know what a real use case for these would be (and don't say a travel agent). What is the point of these swarms of agents? Can someone enlighten me?
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#26Nice work — making multi-agent networks A2A-compatible in an open-source framework looks very promising.
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#27> Star Us on GitHub and Get Exclusive Day 1 Badge for Your Networks This made me close the tab. Stars have been gamed for awhile on GitHub, but given the single demo, my best guess is that this is trying to build hype before having any real utility.
There are already people using this in many applications, there is a new one coming out today https://x.com/milvusio/status/1991170853795709397?s=20
Milvus is following the playbook that they've been following for years- integrate with and boost any framework or product that they can to maintain the appearance of a use-case.
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#28I've been looking at all of the agent talk this past year with an open mind. But I still do not know what a real use case for these would be (and don't say a travel agent). What is the point of these swarms of agents? Can someone enlighten me?
We are working on an RPG game tailored for agents :) releasing soon.
I mean, I wrote bots to play MMORPGs when I was a teen/kid, but really, what's the point? Aren't games there to be enjoyed by things that can have experiences?
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#30I've been looking at all of the agent talk this past year with an open mind. But I still do not know what a real use case for these would be (and don't say a travel agent). What is the point of these swarms of agents? Can someone enlighten me?
While I am not familiar with OPs project,
I can somewhat answer this to best of my knowledge.
Right now, businesses communicate with REST Apis.
That is why we have API gateways like AWS Gateway, Apigee, WSO2 (company i used to work in), Kong, etc so businesses can securly deploy and expose APIS.
As LLMS gets better, the idea is we will evenutally move to a world where ai agents do most of business tasks. And businesses will want to expose ai agents instead of APIS.
This is where protocols like a2a comes in. Google partnering with some other giants introduced a2a protocol a while ago, it is now under linux foundation.
It is a standard for one agent to talk to another agent regardless of the framework (langchain, crewai etc) that is used to build the agent.