A2A Protocol & Google ADK
Master Google's Agent-to-Agent protocol and Agent Development Kit for cross-vendor agent interoperability. Part of the free AI Agents Academy — every lesson below is open to everyone, no signup required.
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- 01The A2A Protocol12 min · 100 XP
Agent-to-Agent Communication While MCP connects agents to tools and data , the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol connects agents to other agents . Introdu...
- 02Agent Cards & Discovery10 min · 100 XP
How Agents Find Each Other In A2A, every agent publishes an Agent Card - a JSON metadata document hosted at a standard endpoint: /.well-known/agent-ca...
- 03Google ADK Framework12 min · 110 XP
The Agent Development Kit (ADK 2.0) Google ADK (Agent Development Kit) 2.0 went GA on May 19, 2026 at Google I/O. It is an open-source framework for b...
- 04A2A Task Lifecycle10 min · 100 XP
How Tasks Flow Between Agents In A2A, work is organized around Tasks - structured units of work that flow between a Client Agent and a Remote Agent ....
- 05Building Multi-Protocol Systems12 min · 120 XP
MCP + A2A + ADK: The Full Stack Production agent systems in 2026 use multiple protocols together. Here's how they fit: The Three-Protocol Architecture...