As Curran defined, MCP is extra targeted on the right way to hyperlink an agent to instruments and information, whereas A2A is targeted on the right way to construct multi-agent orchestrations and workflows.
A2A is supported by Atlassian, Field, Cohere, Intuit, Langchain, MongoDB, PayPal, Salesforce, SAP, ServiceNow, UKG and Workday, in addition to by service suppliers resembling Accenture, BCG, Capgemini, Cognizant, Deloitte, HCLTech, Infosys, KPMG, McKinsey, PwC, TCS, and Wipro.
Transfer cautiously
Regardless of the passion for MCP, Curran says, and safety enhancements within the protocol — lately it added help for OAuth for consumer authentication — there are nonetheless considerations that CSOs, infosec execs, and builders should cope with. Certainly one of them is validation of the information {that a} consumer calls up by way of the server, as a result of AI continues to be vulnerable to hallucinations, he stated.
