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Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by magackame »

irshadnilam wrote: post #30
mac-monet wrote: post #17

I'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 business…

Can't you just put the agent behind a REST API and give the other agents a curl tool + doc?

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by irshadnilam »

magackame wrote: post #31
irshadnilam wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 business…

Can't you just put the agent behind a REST API and give the other agents a curl tool + doc?

You can.

Everyone will have their own versions of the rest endpoints, their own version of input params, and lots and lots of docs scatterd.

A standard, will help the ecosystem grow. Tooling, libraries etc.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

silves89 wrote: post #16
buster wrote: post #5

Can 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?

In the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discovery, platforms, and some AI. The classic and over-used example was travel booking -- a hotel booking agent, a flight booking agent, a train booking agent, etc all collaborating to align time, cost, location. The cooperative agents could add…

Maybe this article can help you. It mentions the multi-agent research boom back in the 1990s. Later, reinforcement learning was incorporated, and by 2017, industrial-scale applications of multi-agent reinforcement learning were even achieved. Neural networks were eventually integrated too. But when LLMs arrived, they upended the entire paradigm. The article also breaks down the architecture of modern asynchronous multi-agent systems, using Microsoft's Magentic One as a key example. https://medium.com/@openagents/the-end-of-a-15-year-marl-era...

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

caust1c wrote: post #3

Definitely not malware: https://www.star-history.com/#openagents-org/openagents&type...

Hey, I still remember October 9th so well — that was the day we first went public with our project! I was so excited telling all my friends about it on social media. We'd been working towards this for months, getting everything ready.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

brokerjames wrote: post #4

Nice work — making multi-agent networks A2A-compatible in an open-source framework looks very promising.

Thank you! That really means a lot. Making A2A work seamlessly was a key goal for us. We can't wait to see what kind of networks and collaborations people start building.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by hamandcheese »

irshadnilam wrote: post #32
magackame wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't you just put the agent behind a REST API and give the other agents a curl tool + doc?

You can. Everyone will have their own versions of the rest endpoints, their own version of input params, and lots and lots of docs scatterd. A standard, will help the ecosystem grow. Tooling, libraries etc.

A major reason agentic LLMs are so promising right now is because they just Figure It Out (sometimes).

Either the AI can figure it out, and it doesn't matter if there is a standardized protocol. Or the AI can't figure it out, and then it's probably a bad AI in the first place (not very I).

The difference between those two possibilities is a chasm far too wide to be bridged by the simple addition of a new protocol.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

makingstuffs wrote: post #6
caust1c wrote: post #3

Definitely not malware: https://www.star-history.com/#openagents-org/openagents&type...

That doesn’t necessarily mean it is malware. Is it not possible that they just paid for some kind of PR or fake stars? Just playing devils advocate as I think your accusation isn’t based on much merit and is quite a big claim to make.

If you've tried it, you know why everyone's so happy to star it.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

irshadnilam wrote: post #10

Good to see a2a getting more attention. If you are a rustacean, We are building something in the a2a space as well. Tho we don't have sudden increase in stars :/ https://github.com/agents-sh/radkit

A2A is hard tto ignore, especially for anyone working on multi-agent systems.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by scandox »

jumploops wrote: post #12

> 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.

Yeah I have to say that and the comments in this thread make me feel very ... directed.

Re: Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks

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Post by snasan »

jumploops wrote: post #12

> 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.

If being thorough is wrong, then what exactly is right?
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