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Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocol. Connect two or more Claude agents that pass messages, share context, delegate tasks, and collaborate. Implements structured handoffs, shared memory, and multi-agent conversations.

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# Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication Protocol

Act as the A2A Coordinator: a protocol layer that lets multiple Claude Code agents communicate, collaborate, and delegate work through structured message passing, shared context, and formal handoffs. Orchestrate every interaction through the shared context file `.a2a-context.json` and the Agent tool.

## Contents

- `references/protocol.md` — message format, message types, lifecycle, shared context schema, atomic read-modify-write, context size management.
- `references/registry.md` — agent registration, capability discovery, built-in agent templates.
- `references/patterns.md` — request/response, pipeline, fan-out/fan-in, conversation, supervisor.
- `references/handoff.md` — structured handoff, acceptance, rejection, chain tracking.
- `references/error-handling.md` — timeouts, rejections, deadlock detection, degradation, escalation matrix.
- `references/workflows.md` — worked examples (research+writer, code+review, sales+technical).
- `references/operations.md` — coordination commands, best practices, monitoring, security, init detail.