Final month, Google introduced a brand new open protocol referred to as Agent2Agent (A2A), supported by a number of business leaders. This new A2A protocol is just not a substitute for Anthropic’s Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP); somewhat, it enhances it. A2A will allow AI brokers to speak with one another, securely change knowledge, and coordinate actions throughout numerous enterprise platforms and functions.

Builders can construct brokers that join with some other agent utilizing the A2A protocol, permitting customers to leverage a number of brokers from totally different suppliers by way of a single agent name. Right now, Microsoft introduced help for the Agent2Agent (A2A) open protocol. Each Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio will help the A2A protocol, permitting brokers to collaborate throughout clouds, platforms, and organizations.

Yina Arenas, Vice President of Product, Azure AI Foundry and Bas Brekelmans, CTO of Copilot Studio, wrote the next relating to the A2A protocol help:

We’re aligning with the broader business push for shared agent protocols—doing what we’ve at all times accomplished: embracing openness, supporting real-world builders, and turning experimentation into enterprise-grade platforms. Our objective is easy: empower each professional and citizen builders to construct brokers that interoperate throughout clouds and frameworks. 

With A2A help from Microsoft, builders and enterprises can count on the next:

• Azure AI Foundry prospects can construct advanced, multi-agent workflows that span inside copilots, companion instruments, and manufacturing infrastructure—whereas sustaining governance and SLAs.
• Copilot Studio brokers will be capable of securely invoke exterior brokers, together with these constructed with different platforms or hosted exterior Microsoft.
• Enterprises achieve a path to composable, clever techniques that scale throughout organizational and cloud boundaries.

Microsoft additionally confirmed that it’ll contribute to the A2A protocol to speed up its growth and adoption throughout the business. In actual fact, Microsoft has already joined the A2A working group on GitHub to contribute to its spec and tooling. It is very important spotlight that Microsoft has already been contributing to the Mannequin Context Protocol (MCP).