Hi Swapnal, Thanks for your feedback.
Haven't discussed this with the others yet, but A2A is at least on my list. But I haven't thought about it in detail enough to answer your questions. Our plan is to first work on a MVP version that shows the unique advantages and differentiators of Flink Agents compared to other agent frameworks, and a production-ready version with full functionalities would be the next step. From my perspective, A2A probably belongs to the second phase, thus we haven't started any concrete design or plan around it at the moment. Best, Xintong On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 3:12 AM Swapnal Varma <swapnal...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 (non-binding) > > Sounds exciting! > > I went through the FLIP and it mentions support for MCP (for tools) and > kafka as a storage engine for inter agent interaction support. > These are great for enterprise adoption, standardization, and > interoperability! > > In similar vein, I wanted to get the community's thoughts on support for > Google's A2A protocol for agent to agent communication [1]. Backed by > Google and 50+ of it's corporate partners [2], I see A2A gaining widespread > adoption, although gradually. > > I think it presents some good ideas. > 1. Is it within the scope of the proposed Flink agents project to add > support for A2A? Or my understanding of the project's aims is flawed and > this should be dealt with elsewhere? > 2. If support is to be added, should it be baked into the Flink agents' > Agent / AgentRuntime classes for out of the box support, or as a special > subclass? > 3. Alternatively Flink agents could choose to remain un-opinionated on this > while allowing the extensibility to let users define their own A2A > compliant flink agents workflows? > 4. Or any other ideas if I'm way off the mark here? > > Just figured I'd put it out there and get thoughts on this while we're > still in the design phase on Flink Agents. > > The A2A specification can be found here: > https://google-a2a.github.io/A2A/specification/ > > [1] https://github.com/google-a2a/A2A > [2] > > https://developers.googleblog.com/en/a2a-a-new-era-of-agent-interoperability/ > > Thanks for the work on this! > > Best, > Swapnal > > On Mon, 2 Jun 2025, 07:01 Xintong Song, <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'd like to start a vote on FLIP-531: Initiate Flink Agents as a new > > Sub-Project [1], which has been discussed in this thread [2]. > > > > The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. > > > > > > Best, > > > > Xintong > > > > > > [1] > > > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-531%3A+Initiate+Flink+Agents+as+a+new+Sub-Project > > > > [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/p9m7wvtlw7sc2oh7v0jk3hb60x5x53yy > > >
