Follow the steps below to get started with Elkar Platform:

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Step 1: Sign Up & Get Your API Key

  1. Create an account on the Elkar platform.
  2. Create a new agent: Navigate to Agents > Add a new agent.
  3. Generate an API Key
Copy the API key now — it won’t be shown again.

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Step 2: Install Elkar SDK

pip install elkar

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Step 3: Create your Task Handler

The task handler manages a task’s status and artifacts, abstracting away the complexity of interacting with the Task Store. It supports three operations: set_status, add_messages_to_history, and upsert_artifact. The task handler currently has a strict signature: async def my_handler(task: TaskModifierBase, request_context: RequestContext) -> None.While this signature is enforced for now, it may become more flexible in the future. 
from elkar.a2a_types import *
from elkar.server.server import A2AServer
from elkar.task_manager.task_manager_base import RequestContext
from elkar.task_manager.task_manager_with_task_modifier import TaskManagerWithModifier
from elkar.task_modifier.base import TaskModifierBase

async def task_handler(
    task: TaskModifierBase, request_context: RequestContext | None
) -> None:

    await task.set_status(
        TaskStatus(
            state=TaskState.WORKING,
            message=Message(
                role="agent",
                parts=[TextPart(text="I understand the task, I'm working on it...")],
            ),
        )
    )

    await task.upsert_artifacts(
        [
            Artifact(
                parts=[TextPart(text="I've finished the task, here is the result...")],
                index=0,
            )
        ]
    )

    await task.set_status(
        TaskStatus(
            state=TaskState.COMPLETED,
            message=Message(
                role="agent",
                parts=[TextPart(text="I've finished the task!")],
            ),
        ),
        is_final=True,
    )

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Step 4: Create your Agent Card

Your Agent Card is defined following the requirements from A2A Protocol. 
agent_card = AgentCard(
    name="Test Agent",
    description="Test Agent Description",
    url="https://example.com",
    provider=AgentProvider(organization="Elkar", url="https://www.elkar.co"),
    documentationUrl="https://example.com/documentation",
    version="1.0.0",
    skills=[
        AgentSkill(
            id="1",
            name="Generate image",
            description="Generate images from prompt description",
            inputModes=["text"],
            outputModes=["image"],
        ),
    ],
    capabilities=AgentCapabilities(
        streaming=True,
        pushNotifications=True,
        stateTransitionHistory=True,
    ),
)

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Step 5: Create your A2A Server

Instantiate your A2A Server with the Managed Service as Task Store. 
api_key = "YOUR_ELKAR_API_KEY"  # Replace with your actual Elkar API key
store = ElkarClientStore(base_url="https://api.elkar.co/api", api_key=api_key)

task_manager: TaskManagerWithModifier = TaskManagerWithModifier(
    agent_card, 
    send_task_handler=task_handler,
    store=store
)

# Create the server instance
server = A2AServer(task_manager, host="0.0.0.0", port=5001, endpoint="/")

server.start() # This is blocking. For production, use an ASGI server like Uvicorn.
To run this example (e.g., if saved as main.py and you expose server.app as app): uvicorn main:app —host 0.0.0.0 —port 5001 
uvicorn main:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 5001