Show HN: PharmA2A, an open protocol for pharmacy-to-supplier orders on A2A
I am pharmacist, in France and I order directly from more than a hundred suppliers. Most orders are a web form, an email or a phone call . I built a buying agent for my pharmacy and the problem came fast: there is nobody to talk to on the other side. A supplier has a sales rep with a mailbox, sometimes an ERP. The idea is PharmA2A. It's based on the A2A protocol. PharmA2A says what they say. Five messages, each one a JSON Schema: supplier sheet, order , acknowledgement line by line, state of the
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Repository: pharma2a/pharma2a. Source account: I am pharmacist, in France and I order directly from more than a hundred suppliers. Most orders are a web form, an email or a phone call . I built a buying agent for my pharmacy and the problem came fast: there is nobody to talk to on the other side. A supplier has a sales rep with a mailbox, sometimes an ERP. The idea is PharmA2A. It's based on the A2A protocol. PharmA2A says what they say. Five messages, each one a JSON Schema: supplier sheet, order , acknowledgement line by line, state of the
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