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Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks
- caryzhang1 11mo agoThis looks great. Open-source work in multi-agent systems is still quite fragmented, so having an A2A-compatible framework feels very useful. A question: how difficult would it be to plug in custom agent personalities or domain-specific tools? If you have a roadmap or examples, I’d love to see them.
- zomux2000 11mo agoHi, we are working on a feature allowing someone to quickly write and launch an agent into the network with zero code (just configuration). Example config: https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents/blob/develop/examples/agent_yaml/openmcp_agent_config_example.yaml https://github.com/openagents-org/openagents/blob/develop/ex... We are doing the final testing, and this feature should be working very soon.
- caust1c 11mo agoDefinitely not malware: https://www.star-history.com/#openagents-org/openagents&type=date&legend=top-left https://www.star-history.com/#openagents-org/openagents&type...
- makingstuffs 11mo agoThat doesn’t necessarily mean it is malware. Is it not possible that they just paid for some kind of PR or fake stars? Just playing devils advocate as I think your accusation isn’t based on much merit and is quite a big claim to make.
- snasan 11mo agoIf you've tried it, you know why everyone's so happy to star it.
- maxbond 11mo agoMaybe it's malware, I haven't checked, but that seems like a pretty typical trajectory to me. I posted a project on HN and got a graph of roughly the same shape (though a much more modest magnitude). https://www.star-history.com/#maxbondabe/attempt&type=date&legend=top-left https://www.star-history.com/#maxbondabe/attempt&type=date&l... Star counts go vertical when you launch your project and it's warmly received. ~850 stars in 11 days for an AI project doesn't seem at all crazy to me. The README also contains a mild inducement to star the repo. > Star Us on GitHub and Get Exclusive Day 1 Badge for Your Networks Seems sufficient to explain any inauthentic behavior. Growth hacking tactics are certainly not typical of open source projects, but how that should factor into your judgment of this project's trustworthiness, I can't say. Caveat emptor.
- snasan 11mo agoHey, I still remember October 9th so well — that was the day we first went public with our project! I was so excited telling all my friends about it on social media. We'd been working towards this for months, getting everything ready.
- brokerjames 11mo agoNice work — making multi-agent networks A2A-compatible in an open-source framework looks very promising.
- buster 11mo agoCan someone please explain what this means? I'm familiar with agentic development workflows but have no clue what this means and what I can do with it? Is it something like n8n, to connect agents with some work flow and let the work flow do stuff for me?
- zomux2000 11mo agoopenagents aims to build agent networks with "open" ecosystems, many agent systems these days are centered around workflows, but workflow is possible when you already know what kinds of agents will be there in your team. But when you allow any agent to join/leave a network, the workflow concept breaks, so this project helps developers to build a ecosystem for open collaboration.
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- buster 11mo agoThanks, but do you realize that you explained it to me using agent systems and ecosystems and open collaboration but i still don't know what it does for the user? Can it book flights for me? Is it supposed to be some kind of autonomous intelligent bot that does "stuff" for me? What stuff? From the sibling comments it sounds like "we" are putting LLMs together and hope that something emerges? What? Ultimately, i ask what openagents.org does for me as a user.
- silves89 11mo agoIn the late 90s and early 2000s there was a bunch of academic research into collaborative multi-agent systems. This included things like communication protocols, capability discovery, platforms, and some AI. The classic and over-used example was travel booking -- a hotel booking agent, a flight booking agent, a train booking agent, etc all collaborating to align time, cost, location. The cooperative agents could add themselves and their capabilities to the agent community and the potential of the system as a whole would increase, and there would perhaps be cool emergent behaviours that no one had thought of. This appears, to me, like an LLM-agent descendent of these earlier multi-agent systems. I lost track of the research after I left academia -- perhaps someone here can fill in the (considerable) blanks from my overview?
- behnamoh 11mo agoFancy logo, has a website, sudden rise in stars. Checks all the boxes of open-source software that's waiting for enshitification.
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- irshadnilam 11mo agoGood to see a2a getting more attention. If you are a rustacean, We are building something in the a2a space as well. Tho we don't have sudden increase in stars :/ https://github.com/agents-sh/radkit https://github.com/agents-sh/radkit
- jumploops 11mo ago> Star Us on GitHub and Get Exclusive Day 1 Badge for Your Networks This made me close the tab. Stars have been gamed for awhile on GitHub, but given the single demo, my best guess is that this is trying to build hype before having any real utility.
- zomux2000 11mo agoThere are already people using this in many applications, there is a new one coming out today https://x.com/milvusio/status/1991170853795709397?s=20 https://x.com/milvusio/status/1991170853795709397?s=20
- jondwillis 11mo agoMilvus is following the playbook that they've been following for years- integrate with and boost any framework or product that they can to maintain the appearance of a use-case.
- scandox 11mo agoYeah I have to say that and the comments in this thread make me feel very ... directed.
- snasan 11mo agoIf being thorough is wrong, then what exactly is right?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 11mo agoRather than "being thorough", others are likely to see it as "dubious incentives". Plugging that into your question seems to yield some rather obvious answers.
- mac-monet 11mo agoI've been looking at all of the agent talk this past year with an open mind. But I still do not know what a real use case for these would be (and don't say a travel agent). What is the point of these swarms of agents? Can someone enlighten me?
- SamDc73 11mo agoI don't think devs can answer that one, you'll have to ask VCs
- zomux2000 11mo agoWe are working on an RPG game tailored for agents :) releasing soon.
- jondwillis 11mo agoI mean, I wrote bots to play MMORPGs when I was a teen/kid, but really, what's the point? Aren't games there to be enjoyed by things that can have experiences?
- likis 11mo agoMaybe I interpreted it differently, but playing an RPG where every NPC is essentially its own agent/AI with its own context would be very interesting. In most RPGs, NPCs are very static.
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- irshadnilam 11mo agoWhile I am not familiar with OPs project, I can somewhat answer this to best of my knowledge. Right now, businesses communicate with REST Apis. That is why we have API gateways like AWS Gateway, Apigee, WSO2 (company i used to work in), Kong, etc so businesses can securly deploy and expose APIS. As LLMS gets better, the idea is we will evenutally move to a world where ai agents do most of business tasks. And businesses will want to expose ai agents instead of APIS. This is where protocols like a2a comes in. Google partnering with some other giants introduced a2a protocol a while ago, it is now under linux foundation. It is a standard for one agent to talk to another agent regardless of the framework (langchain, crewai etc) that is used to build the agent.
- rubenvanwyk 11mo agoAgents in C# seem much better than in Python or Typescript, wish we could see more frameworkers take that route.
- rubenvanwyk 11mo agoDoes anyone have any good resources on A2A in general?
- irshadnilam 11mo agohttps://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/ is the best place to start.
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- Julie309 11mo agoWhat is the difference from AutoGen?
- snasan 11mo agoFrameworks like AutoGen are used to build individual agents or agent teams, while OpenAgents is designed to connect countless such teams and individuals into a vast, dynamic, and scalable ecosystem.