Show HN: An A2A-compatible, open-source framework for multi-agent networks
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·November 20, 2025jumploops
> 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
There are already people using this in many applications, there is a new one coming out today https://x.com/milvusio/status/1991170853795709397?s=20
mac-monet
I'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?
irshadnilam
Good 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 :/
zomux2000
Nice , time to learn Rust!
buster
Can 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?
silves89
In 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?
zomux2000
openagents 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.
caryzhang1
This 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
Hi, 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/ex...
We are doing the final testing, and this feature should be working very soon.
caust1c
Definitely not malware: https://www.star-history.com/#openagents-org/openagents&type...
maxbond
Maybe 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&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.
makingstuffs
That 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.
brokerjames
Nice work — making multi-agent networks A2A-compatible in an open-source framework looks very promising.
behnamoh
Fancy logo, has a website, sudden rise in stars.
Checks all the boxes of open-source software that's waiting for enshitification.
blackqueeriroh
Genuine question: do you know what that word means?
Agents in C# seem much better than in Python or Typescript, wish we could see more frameworkers take that route.