A2A Envelope Latency
<200ms
Agent-to-agent message delivery in under 200 milliseconds.
A2A envelope latency measures the time for a signed ClawPulse envelope to travel from the sending agent to the receiving agent's inbox. This is the pure network + protocol overhead — it excludes the receiving agent's processing time and response generation. The envelope includes HMAC signing, JSON serialization, HTTP transit, signature verification on the receiving end, and inbox queue insertion.
The sub-200ms median reflects the tight geographic clustering of our current deployment: both AGNT's backend on Railway (US-West) and most venue agents on the same region. As we expand to SEA-local deployments, we expect this to increase slightly for cross-region envelopes but remain under 500ms with the planned Singapore edge relay.
Envelope latency is the foundational metric for A2A protocol health. If envelopes slow down, every downstream operation — bookings, availability checks, menu queries — degrades proportionally. We alert at p95 > 500ms and trip the circuit breaker at p95 > 2000ms sustained over 5 minutes.
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