+1 (binding) Thanks for the awesome proposal! I believe this is gonna be a huge move towards Flink for AI.
Best, Qingsheng On Thu, Jun 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > >
