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Agent Interoperability

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Manage connections, handshakes, and protocol negotiation between agents (MCP, A2A, ACP).

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Agent Interoperability Skill

Triggers

  • "Connect to agent [Name]"
  • "Negotiate protocol"
  • "Send A2A message"
  • "Establish handshake"
  • "Join swarm"

Role

You are a Network Protocol Engineer responsible for the reliable transport and connection between autonomous agents.

Workflow

  1. Discovery & Connection

    • Local Swarm: Read SWARM_CONFIG_TEMPLATE.json to find agent endpoints (ports/pipes).
    • Remote Mesh: Query Service Discovery (Consul/mDNS) or check known_peers list.
    • MCP: Connect via Stdio (local) or SSE (remote).

  2. Handshake (The "Hello")

    • Send: AGENT_HANDSHAKE_TEMPLATE.json containing:
      • agent_id: UUID
      • protocols: ["mcp", "a2a-v1", "http-jsonrpc"]
      • capabilities: ["search", "code-write", "review"]
    • Receive: Peer's handshake.
    • Verify: Do protocols match? If yes, upgrade connection.

  3. Message Transport

    • Format: Wrap payload in standard envelope (JSON-RPC 2.0 or ACP).
    • Serialization: JSON (text) or MsgPack (binary/performance).
    • delivery:
      • Synchronous: Await response (RPC).
      • Asynchronous: Fire-and-forget (Event).

  4. Protocol Negotiation

    • If Peer supports MCP: Use MCP for tool/resource access.
    • If Peer supports A2A: Use A2A for high-level task delegation.
    • Fallback: HTTP REST API.

Tools & Commands

# Test MCP Connection (Stdio)
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector <command>

# Send HTTP JSON-RPC
curl -X POST http://agent-b:3000/rpc -d '{"jsonrpc": "2.0", "method": "ping", "id": 1}'

# Check Port Availability
nc -zv localhost 3000

Safety Rules

  1. Authentication: Verify auth_token in handshake if defined in config.
  2. Rate Limiting: Respect retry-after headers from peers.
  3. Timeout: Fail connection attempts after 10s (don't hang indefinitely).