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EREBOTS 4.0: A framework for conversational assistants with A2A agents and MCP tools
Type of publication: Article
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Publication status: Submitted
Journal: arxiv
Year: 2026
Month: October
URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.362...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2610.36221
Abstract: In recent years, multi-agent systems have shifted from rule-based, symbolic agents to sub-symbolic agents built on language models. However, several limitations remain unresolved. The new frontier is neuro-symbolic agents, which pair language models with deterministic tools and explicit protocols. Without a common framework to standardize and compose them, each study rebuilds the same infrastructure, and results are hard to replicate. This paper presents EREBOTS 4.0, an open-source, hybrid-AI, multi-agent framework that fills this gap for conversational assistants. Language-model agents plan and route requests, while deterministic tools compute exact results over the Model Context Protocol (MCP). An orchestrator selects one or more specialist agents per turn and calls them over the Agent2Agent protocol (A2A). A new agent, local or remote, is added by listing its URL in a configuration file. The framework also manages identity, user context with consent flags, task states and traces. Its A2A server passed 97 tracked requirements in the official A2A Technology Compatibility Kit, with no failures.
Keywords: agent interoperability, Agent2Agent protocol, Agentic AI, conversational assistants, Model Context Protocol, Multi-Agent Systems
Authors Pacioni, Elia
Calvaresi, Davide
Coman, Andrei C.
Jaggi, Ismael
Crocetti, Valerio
Manzo, Gaetano
Schumacher, Michael
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