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MCP & Tooling
Tier 5
A2A Microservice Sample
Summary
A multi-agent microservice system built on .NET Aspire, Microsoft Agent Framework, and the A2A + MCP protocols - agents deployed as microservices with proper service discovery and observability.
Key Takeaways
- Agents as microservices: A2A between services, MCP at the edges
- Cloud-native plumbing (Aspire) applies to agent fleets
Reliability Note
Community sample (original text in Chinese).
Flows informed by this source
1Agent Architecture
Agent-to-Agent Protocols (A2A)
Connect two agents over an explicit protocol - task handoff, acknowledgment, and failure handling - instead of hoping chat works out.
01Define the protocol
02Build the message layer
03Wrap agents as protocol endpoints
+1 more steps to Done
Best forproduction-grade builds with strict verification
4 steps90-150 minutesAdvanced