Challenge

Build A2A MCP Agents for Enterprise IT & Accounting Automation

Frontier model firms are embedding AI agents in companies like accounting and IT businesses, this challenge focuses on developing a sophisticated multi-agent system. You will design and implement a set of specialized agents that collaborate using the A2A Protocol to automate common enterprise IT and accounting workflows. The system must leverage MCP for secure, dynamic tool integration with simulated (or real, if accessible) enterprise systems, ensuring robust data handling and process orchestration. Emphasize fault tolerance, auditing capabilities, and adaptive decision-making within the agent swarm.

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Challenge brief

What you are building

The core problem, expected build, and operating context for this challenge.

Frontier model firms are embedding AI agents in companies like accounting and IT businesses, this challenge focuses on developing a sophisticated multi-agent system. You will design and implement a set of specialized agents that collaborate using the A2A Protocol to automate common enterprise IT and accounting workflows. The system must leverage MCP for secure, dynamic tool integration with simulated (or real, if accessible) enterprise systems, ensuring robust data handling and process orchestration. Emphasize fault tolerance, auditing capabilities, and adaptive decision-making within the agent swarm.

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Learning goals

What you should walk away with

  • Master LangGraph for building stateful Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) agent workflows, including persistence and conditional routing.

  • Implement the A2A Protocol for robust, secure agent-to-agent communication, including message serialization and authentication patterns.

  • Design and deploy MCP-enabled tool integration modules using Claude Opus 4.1 for interfacing with simulated enterprise APIs (e.g., HR, ERP, IT service management).

  • Build extended thinking pipelines with GPT-5 Pro, incorporating adaptive reasoning budgets for resource-efficient problem-solving in complex scenarios.

  • Orchestrate a multi-LLM agent system, assigning specific roles to GPT-5 for strategic planning and Claude Opus 4.1 for detailed analysis and verification.

  • Develop robust error handling and auditing mechanisms for agent interactions and external tool calls, crucial for enterprise applications.

  • Integrate a vector database for RAG, enabling agents to retrieve context-specific enterprise policies, documentation, and historical data.

How this agent runs

The evaluation will assess the system's ability to accurately and efficiently automate IT and accounting tasks, adhering to communication protocols and demonstrating robust tool integration.

Preview configuration

Challenge input

{ "ticket_id": "UUID", "issue_description": "String", "user_email": "String" }

Agent execution

The configured agent processes the input under the challenge policy.

Evaluated output

{ "ticket_id": "UUID", "resolution_plan": "String", "actions_taken": ["String"], "mcp_tool_calls": ["Object"], "a2a_interactions": ["Object"], "fin...

Checks for
  • Verify that agents communicate using the specified A2A message structure and demonstrate appropriate handoffs.
  • Check for correct and relevant MCP tool calls with appropriate parameters.
  • Ensure the agent system reaches a logical conclusion or proposed resolution for the given task.
Proof of success
  • Accuracy Of Information Extraction target: 0.95
Runtime evidence
  • Python execution harness
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Evaluation contract

  • The evaluation module defines the checks.

Recipe state

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Start from your terminal
$npx -y @versalist/cli start build-a2a-mcp-agents-for-enterprise-it-accounting-automation

[ok] Wrote CHALLENGE.md

[ok] Wrote .versalist.json

[ok] Wrote eval/examples.json

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