Interactive guide to agent-to-agent communication patterns
How Agents Actually Talk to Each Other Interactive Guide
A public interactive guide to agent-to-agent communication patterns, covering paired review, typed handoffs, shared threads, swarm routing, and the A2A protocol.
Note: The live guide is hosted as a standalone static project and embedded below. Open it directly if you want the full-screen version.
This guide turns the essay into a faster reference surface.
Instead of reading the whole argument linearly, you can move between the main coordination patterns and compare the tradeoffs directly.
What it covers
The guide maps the five patterns that show up repeatedly in real agent systems:
- paired review loops
- typed handoffs
- shared-thread group chat
- swarm-style routing
- protocol-based agent communication such as A2A
How to use it
Use it when you are deciding what kind of agent coordination you actually need.
It is most useful when you want to separate review, routing, ownership transfer, and cross-system interoperability instead of flattening all of them into "agents talking to each other."