Re:The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
by skeledrew on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @02:03PM
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The entire point can be summed in the first 5/6s of that. You don't need to know any of it, because it's irrelevant (at that abstraction). Just as it's irrelevant to know how registers work, to allocate and free memory, avoid/handle segfaults, etc if using a high level language like Python, vs Assembly or C.
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That doesn't sound like the case for MCP though. It sounds like when implementing an MCP server there is a difference between the three transport methods that requires different code on the server.
This is a problem solved by other protocols that are just stacked on top of eachother without knowing how eachother work.
That depends on the library implementation. A given library can be anywhere on the spectrum from "user knowledge and management of the transport methods required" to "transport method is determined by protocol format or invocation" (eg. "local://..." vs "remote://...").