Production Agents 2026
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MCP connects agents to tools. A2A coordinates independent agents, including through stateful tasks. Learn where each belongs and what neither protocol solves.

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Production Agents 2026
MCP connects agents to tools. A2A coordinates independent agents, including through stateful tasks. Learn where each belongs and what neither protocol solves.

When an agent system misbehaves, the instinct is to add more instructions. Usually the real fix is structural: explicit states, hard guards, and small tools with narrow contracts. Reliability is an architecture decision, not a prompting one.