Google publishes A2A in an open GitHub repository
Agent-to-agent tasking has a repo. Settlement is still a different layer.
company
Announced Agent2Agent protocol for cross-vendor agent tasking.
Machine: /v1/intelligence/entity/google · Graph: /v1/graph/entities/google
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- evt-ap2-github-spec
- evt-google-a2a-2025-04-09
- evt-google-a2a-github
- evt-google-ap2-2025-09-16
- evt-techcrunch-google-ap2-2025-09-16
- a2a
- ap2
Timeline
Google publishes Agent2Agent as an interoperability bet
A2A aims at agent-to-agent tasking across vendors, complementary to MCP tool calling.
Trade press same-day coverage of AP2 is corroboration, not a primary source
zFinia prefers the Google Cloud post. This record shows how secondary reports are filed.
Google announces the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2)
A payment-agnostic mandate framework meant to sit beside A2A and MCP.
Google publishes the AP2 specification in an open GitHub repo
Mandate-based agent authorization is now a readable spec, not only a keynote.