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PharmA2A publishes v0.1 pharmacy-supplier order protocol on A2A
SyderaAI published PharmA2A 0.1, an Apache- and CC0-licensed A2A extension that defines five JSON Schema messages for French pharmacy-to-supplier orders, the GitHub repo says [1].
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SyderaAI of Paris published PharmA2A version 0.1 on Nov. 12, 2026, an open protocol that sits on the Linux Foundation Agent2Agent (A2A) standard and defines what a community pharmacy's buying agent and a supplier's agent exchange when placing an order1.
The GitHub repository describes five JSON Schema messages, declared as an A2A profile extension at https://pharma2a.org/ext/v1: a public supplier sheet (fiche_fournisseur), a pharmacy purchase order that never includes a price (commande), a line-by-line supplier acknowledgement (accuse_reception), optional shelf-state sharing for that supplier's products (etat_de_rayon), and an order follow-up (relance)1.
Field names are French and the first target is French community pharmacy, including CIP 13 product codes; the specification and English guide document the messages in English1. The authors say that, to their knowledge, it is the first sector-specific dictionary built on A2A1.
The README lists six hard rules: no pharmacy economic data in any message; unstated fields stay null; only the supplier speaks for the supplier, and a transcribed reply never confirms an order by itself; a message that says nothing is not a confirmation; the pharmacy calls and the supplier answers, with no push or stream; and no patient data1.
The dictionary under schema/ is CC0 1.0; the Python agent package and tests are Apache 2.01. PharmA2A is listed as a SyderaAI trademark filed with France's INPI; the repo says anyone may implement the protocol, but the name is reserved1.
The repository ships a sample supplier agent, a demo pharmacy CLI, and a supplier email bridge that can send an order by mail and optionally transcribe a reply with a language model1. It says the model provider receives reply text plus the order reference and line items (codes, labels, quantities) and that the agent does not add the pharmacy's identity or a price1.
SyderaAI says the Mercury buying agent it runs for its pharmacies already speaks PharmA2A1. No supplier runs an agent yet, so Mercury hosts the email bridge; suppliers receive a mail and reply as usual, and the pharmacy would change one URL if a supplier later served its own agent1. Independent adoption beyond that claim is not documented in the repository1.