Why Are Agent Protocols Like MCP and A2A Needed?

May 22, 2025

, By The New Stack

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The topic of AI agents is rapidly evolving. You’ve probably heard about Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which grew aggressively from 500 MCP servers in February to over 4,000 as of today. As the community was still figuring out MCP, Google announced its contribution to the agent communication spaces by releasing Agent-2-Agent (A2A). The announcement was met with excitement and confusion.

This rapid proliferation raises questions: Why do we need multiple agent protocols? Are MCP and A2A overlapping solutions, or do they…

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Why Are Agent Protocols Like MCP and A2A Needed?

May 22, 2025

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The topic of AI agents is rapidly evolving. You’ve probably heard about Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), which grew aggressively from 500 MCP servers in February to over 4,000 as of today. As the community was still figuring out MCP, Google announced its contribution to the agent communication spaces by releasing Agent-2-Agent (A2A). The announcement was met with excitement and confusion.

This rapid proliferation raises questions: Why do we need multiple agent protocols? Are MCP and A2A overlapping solutions, or do they…

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