Whitepaper Reading Club: Multiplayer agents and A2A protocol
Whitepaper Reading NYC: Multiplayer agents and A2A protocol
Agents are entering multi-player mode with @claude on Slack, Centaur by Paradigm. How will this multi-agent world look like? Who would control this agent? What information will this agent have access to? Can we have this agents go multi-player mode across organizations?
We will discussion grounded on A2A protocol, which is agent-to-agent communication standards proposed by Google and manged by The Linux Foundation.
Paper / source
A2A Protocol: https://a2a-protocol.org/latest/topics/what-is-a2a/
Claude tag: https://claude.com/docs/claude-tag/overview
Multi-Agent: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/managed-agents/multi-agent
Paradigm Centarur: https://www.paradigm.xyz/2026/05/open-sourcing-centaur-multiplayer-self-hosted-secure-agents
Session Guide:
Summary link
https://gist.github.com/sm86/3531cdfa9477e9e9e045b76f3ad02739
Format
Short introduction and context setting to start.
Silent reading of the summary before discussion begins.
5-10 minute presentation to frame the key ideas.
Moderator-led discussion with no promotions
Session Guides
Shashank Motepalli is founder of Ekai Labs, building context routing engine for human-agent coordination. He did his PhD from University of Toronto in Distributed Systems.
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