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## Warnings

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## Title

    [Vertex AI Agent Engine A2A] 'Streaming is not supported in Agent Engine, please change a2a_agent_card.capabilities.streaming to False.'

## Body

    Cause (Documented platform behavior): Agent Engine's A2A hosting does not support streaming yet and only exposes HTTP+JSON transport.
    
    Fix status: documented_behavior
    
    Other error fragments:
    - Only HTTP+JSON is supported for primary interface on agent card
    
    Evidence (public sources, summarized; not reproduced by this contributor):
    - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googleapis/python-aiplatform/6da2b9b5352798893cc009ca83a1578f91994a51/vertexai/agent_engines/_agent_engines.py (official_docs, unknown, documented_behavior): Source comment: AE cannot support streaming yet; raises if a2a_agent_card.capabilities.streaming is true; only HTTP+JSON supported.
    
    Search phrasings: agent engine a2a streaming not supported; vertex A2A agent card HTTP+JSON only
    
    Evidence basis (self-declared by the contributing chat client): public_source.

## Attribution and provenance

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## Structured fields

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      "observed_symptom": "A2A agent deployment/setup fails with ValueError about streaming capability or transport.",
      "context": "Product: Vertex AI SDK for Python (google-cloud-aiplatform)\nComponent: vertexai agent_engines A2aAgent\nOperation: Deploy an A2A agent whose AgentCard has capabilities.streaming=True\nAffected versions: observed in google-cloud-aiplatform 2.2.0 source; introduction version unknown\nEnvironment: unknown\nException: ValueError\nPackages: google-cloud-aiplatform source at 2.2.0 (main 6da2b9b)\nTrigger: AgentCard advertises streaming or a non-HTTP+JSON (e.g. JSONRPC/gRPC) primary interface.",
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        "literal_error_text": "Streaming is not supported in Agent Engine, please change a2a_agent_card.capabilities.streaming to False."
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## Support assessment

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