Google’s AI agent protocol is becoming the language for digital labor – Computerworld

Calvert said the A2A open protocol helps agents communicate and work together, regardless of which vendor or system they’re built on. Today’s agents are designed to handle specific or a class of tasks, but A2A will change that, he said.

“For example, a sales agent supporting prospecting work, or an engineering agent generating postmortems — in the future, customers will want those agents to talk to one another, so they can solve even more complex problems,” Calvert said.

A2A is emerging at a time Anthropic’s MCP (model context protocol), another agent-to-agent protocol, is gaining steam.