a2acli
v1.10.0by ghchinoy · author: G. H. Chinoy
CLI and agent skills for the A2A protocol: drive a2acli to discover/invoke/monitor A2A agents, and build/audit A2A-compliant services.
What a2acli does, in the publisher's words
A standalone, A2A Specification v1.0 compliant command-line client for discovering, messaging, and managing agents. Built on the a2a-go SDK with an interactive streaming TUI and a scriptable JSON mode.
A2A (Agent-to-Agent) is an open protocol for talking to AI agents over a network, discover what an agent can do, send it a message, and stream back results and artifacts, regardless of how the agent is built. Every agent publishes an AgentCard (its skills, security requirements, and transports); you send a message that creates a task; the task moves through states (working → completed) and may produce artifacts (text, data, files).
a2acli is the command-line client for that protocol. To learn the protocol itself, see the canonical site: a2a-protocol.org.
From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized · Open the README on GitHub
- Skills
- 3
- MCP servers
- 0
- Stars
- 5
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Repo created
- 2026-02-20
- Last pushed
- 2026-09-20
- Publisher type
- User
- Version
- 1.10.0
Links
Skills · 3
- a2a-conformance
- Evaluate an existing Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol service or agent for specification compliance, security best practices, and quality design. Uses static inspection, a2acli probes, and official TCK orchestration to produce a structured conformance report with stable check IDs. Use when asked to au…
- a2a-expose
- Guide developers and coding agents in adding an A2A Protocol v1.0 exposure layer to an existing API, microservice, or codebase. Enforces a design-first workflow (intent-based skill modeling, task lifecycle, artifact delivery, and security mapping) before emitting Go or Python SDK code, followed by…
- a2acli
- Interact with Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol services from the command line. Use when you need to discover agent capabilities, send tasks, poll status, stream results, manage tasks, or authenticate with OAuth 2.1-protected A2A agents.
Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.
Category
Agent Tooling. Assigned by this directory. Agent Plugins 1.0.0 has no category field, so no manifest declares one.
Keywords
a2a · agent-to-agent · cli · conformance · agent-card · mcp
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