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feat: Add DNS-AID tools for agent discovery via DNS #4859

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Feature Request

Add DNS-AID (DNS-based Agent Identification and Discovery) tools to Google ADK, enabling agents to discover, publish, and unpublish other agents via DNS SVCB records.

Motivation

AI agent ecosystems need a decentralized, standards-based discovery mechanism. DNS-AID (IETF draft-mozleywilliams-dnsop-dnsaid-01) uses DNS SVCB records to publish agent metadata — capabilities, endpoints, protocols, and versions — making agents discoverable without centralized registries.

Google ADK already supports A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol. DNS-AID complements A2A by providing the discovery layer: agents publish their A2A endpoints to DNS, and other agents find them via standard DNS queries. This enables:

  • Decentralized discovery: No central registry needed
  • DNS-native: Leverages existing DNS infrastructure, caching, and security (DNSSEC)
  • A2A bridge: DNS-discovered agents with protocol=a2a can be converted to ADK RemoteAgent references

Proposed Implementation

  1. FunctionTool wrappers: discover_agents, publish_agent, unpublish_agent async functions wrapped as FunctionTool objects
  2. Tool factory: get_dns_aid_tools(backend_name=...) for convenient tool creation with DNS backend binding
  3. A2A bridge: a2a_agent_from_record() to convert DNS-AID discovered agents into ADK-compatible RemoteAgent references

Related PR

PR #4856 implements this feature.

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