Evidence the run may read
- Incident timeline and approved facts
- Affected audience map
- Communication templates
production blueprint · it
Major incident communications agent blueprint.
Convert approved incident facts into audience-specific updates while clearly separating known impact from investigation.
Search intent: AI agent for incident communications
Published by a2a cloudProduct-source methodology →
01 · the contract
Start from a bounded job, not a blank chat box.
trigger
A major incident reaches a communication checkpoint.
owner
IT service owner
agent stops at
The incident commander or communications owner approves publication.
KPI · decrease
communication correction rate (percent). Measure published incident updates later requiring factual correction.
outputs
Artifacts the run must produce
- Stakeholder update draft
- Customer-safe status draft
- Unknowns and next-update time
02 · topology
Small specialists. Named handoffs. One accountable decision.
Each stage produces an artifact another stage can inspect. The final node is a person, not an autonomous write to an external system.
- 01
intake
Validate and normalize the major incident communications inputs.
- 02
fact extractor
Produce the stakeholder update draft.
- 03
audience editor
Produce the customer-safe status draft.
- 04
incident communications reviewer
Challenge the major incident communications result and prepare an approval packet.
- 05
IT service owner
The incident commander or communications owner approves publication.
intake→ validated input packet →fact-extractor
fact-extractor→ Stakeholder update draft →audience-editor
audience-editor→ Customer-safe status draft →incident-communications-reviewer
incident-communications-reviewer→ approval packet with evidence references →human-approver
03 · authority
Grant the run only what this case needs.
Source material is read-only. Drafts land in a case-specific output path. Tools may read or propose; the human gate owns the external write.
case inputs
workspace/it/major-incident-communications/inputs/**Read only the evidence attached to this workflow instance.
case outputs
workspace/it/major-incident-communications/outputs/**Write drafts and evidence artifacts without modifying source records.
approved tools
it:major-incident-communications:read-or-proposeInvoke only tools explicitly granted for this run; external writes remain gated.
04 · implementation
A private, bounded starting manifest.
The blueprint starts private, caps its DAG, disables replanning, and exposes no public endpoint. Add only the tools and data adapters this workflow has approved.
a2a.yamlsafe starting point
name: it-major-incident-communications
version: 0.1.0
entrypoint: agent:BlueprintAgent
expose:
public: false
composition:
planning: deterministic_dag
max_nodes: 6
max_parallel: 1
max_replans: 005 · acceptance test
Pass only with evidence.
- 01
Evidence traceability
Every material conclusion cites an input artifact or a scoped tool result from this run.
- 02
The draft includes only approved facts, states uncertainty, and commits to a realistic next update.
The draft includes only approved facts, states uncertainty, and commits to a realistic next update.
- 03
Approval boundary
The run stops at a proposal and records the human decision before any external side effect.
failure containment
Stop small. Preserve the evidence.
Impact or recovery information is disputed between incident sources.
Containment: Return a partial result with unresolved items; do not broaden scope or perform an external write.
Operator: Attach the missing evidence, narrow the brief, or explicitly approve a new scoped run.
A required input or tool grant is unavailable.
Containment: Stop the affected branch and preserve completed artifacts in the case output workspace.
Operator: Grant only the missing resource or continue with that branch marked out of scope.
06 · proof
Sign the run facts. Keep money in the billing ledger.
Current platform receipts sign caller identity or classification, skill, bounded input evidence, verified grant IDs when present, outcome or result preview, and timing. Optional file, tool, artifact, handoff, evaluation, and review fields require separate instrumentation and are not populated by default. Price, fees, payouts, and later human approvals remain separate platform records.
The example uses only fields populated by the current platform sealing paths. It is illustrative, not a record of a real customer run.
ExecutionReceipt · selected fieldsEd25519 token
{
"receipt_id": "rcpt_01J...",
"schema_version": 1,
"agent_name": "it-major-incident-communications",
"caller": "user:workflow-owner",
"task_id": "case_major_incident_communications",
"skill_name": "major_incident_communications",
"input_hash": "4d7c...9a2f",
"grant_ids": [
"grt_case_inputs",
"grt_tool_propose"
],
"status": "ok",
"result_preview": "Output prepared: Stakeholder update draft. Human decision remains separate.",
"elapsed_ms": 4218
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put the pattern to work
Start private. Scope the authority. Require the decision.
Deploy the workflow as a bounded internal agent, verify its outputs and the receipt fields actually emitted, then expand only the scopes your acceptance test proves it needs.