{"id":1196,"date":"2025-04-17T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2026-07-05T12:01:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:01:00","slug":"mcp-and-a2a-what-are-they","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/ai-data\/mcp-and-a2a-what-are-they\/","title":{"rendered":"MCP and A2A: What are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cutting through the noise on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent 2 Agent)! This insightful article from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aurimas-griciunas\/\">Aurimas Grici\u016bnas<\/a> provides much-needed clarity on how these two protocols compare and what their future might look like as agentic systems evolve.<br \/><br \/>If you\u2019re building with LLMs, agents, or just want clarity on these buzzwords, this is a must-read. \ud83d\udc47<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsletter.swirlai.com\/p\/mcp-vs-a2a-friends-or-foes\">https:\/\/www.newsletter.swirlai.com\/p\/mcp-vs-a2a-friends-or-foes<\/a><br \/><br \/>Do you see MCP and A2A as friends, foes, or something in between? Drop your thoughts in the comments!<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/search\/results\/all\/?keywords=%23mcp&amp;origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED\">#MCP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/search\/results\/all\/?keywords=%23a2a&amp;origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED\">#A2A<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/search\/results\/all\/?keywords=%23ai&amp;origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED\">#AI<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/search\/results\/all\/?keywords=%23swirlai&amp;origin=HASH_TAG_FROM_FEED\">#SwirlAI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cutting through the noise on MCP (Model Context Protocol) and A2A (Agent 2 Agent)! This insightful article from Aurimas Grici\u016bnas provides much-needed clarity on how these two protocols compare and what their future might look like as agentic systems evolve. If you\u2019re building with LLMs, agents, or just want clarity on these buzzwords, this is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[231,230],"class_list":["post-1196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai-data","tag-a2a","tag-mcp"],"acf":{"phase":"3","cluster":"Core AI","topics":["AI Architecture"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1197,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions\/1197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jkspeaks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}