This image illustrates Google’s new Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol released this week and supported by a wide group of industry partners. It shows how client agents (blue) and remote agents (green) communicate through a structured framework. The protocol enables four key capabilities: secure collaboration, task and state management for complex operations, user experience negotiation to ensure proper content delivery, and capability discovery allowing agents to find out what other agents can do. A2A represents an exciting development in interconnected multi-agent systems that can work together across the many emerging platforms.