feat: add per-agent A2A client timeout configuration

[ko3n1g]

Problem

Agents that perform expensive LLM work — such as log analysis with multi-chunk reads — can exceed the default 600 s A2A client read timeout. When this happens, the call site receives an A2AClientTimeoutError which the JSON-RPC layer surfaces as a -32603 Internal Error, making the root cause hard to diagnose and impossible to work around without code changes.

Solution

Add an optional timeout field (float64, seconds) to TypedReference so operators can configure a per-agent A2A read timeout directly in the Agent CRD:

tools:
  - type: Agent
    agent:
      ref: my-slow-analyst-agent
      timeout: 1800   # 30 minutes

The value flows from the CRD through the translator into RemoteAgentConfig, where the ADK runtime uses it as the HTTP client read deadline for that specific agent-to-agent call. Agents without an explicit timeout continue to use the existing default (600 s).

Changed files

File	Change
go/api/v1alpha2/agent_types.go	Add Timeout *float64 to TypedReference
go/api/adk/types.go	Add Timeout *float64 to RemoteAgentConfig
go/core/internal/controller/translator/agent/adk_api_translator.go	Propagate tool.Agent.Timeout into the built RemoteAgentConfig
helm/kagent-crds/templates/kagent.dev_agents.yaml	Expose timeout in CRD schema (manual update; re-run make generate manifests to regenerate from kubebuilder markers)

Note: make generate manifests was not run as part of this PR because controller-gen is not available in the contributor environment. The CRD YAML has been updated manually to match the new field; CI's generate/manifests job should produce an identical result.

Testing

• cd go && go build ./... passes cleanly (verified via golang:1.26-alpine Docker image).

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds per-agent A2A client timeout configuration, allowing operators to specify a custom timeout for agent-to-agent calls directly in the Agent CRD. The timeout is meant to flow from the CRD through the translator into RemoteAgentConfig for use by the ADK runtime.

Changes:

• Add Timeout *float64 field to TypedReference struct in go/api/v1alpha2/agent_types.go
• Add Timeout *float64 field to RemoteAgentConfig struct in go/api/adk/types.go
• Propagate timeout from tool.Agent to RemoteAgentConfig in the translator
• Add timeout field to CRD schema in helm/kagent-crds/templates/kagent.dev_agents.yaml

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 4 out of 4 changed files in this pull request and generated 4 comments.

File	Description
go/api/v1alpha2/agent_types.go	Adds Timeout field to TypedReference with proper documentation
go/api/adk/types.go	Adds Timeout field to RemoteAgentConfig as *float64
go/core/internal/controller/translator/agent/adk_api_translator.go	Correctly propagates timeout from TypedReference to RemoteAgentConfig
helm/kagent-crds/templates/kagent.dev_agents.yaml	Updates CRD schema with timeout field (though schema is incomplete - missing core TypedReference fields)

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[Copilot]

The CRD schema for the agent tool reference does not match the Go struct definition. The CRD shows only "ref" and "timeout" fields, but the Go TypedReference struct has "kind", "apiGroup", "name", "namespace", and "timeout" fields. The code at line 723 uses tool.Agent.NamespacedName() which expects "name" and "namespace" fields separately. Users following the CRD schema would specify only a "ref" string, which would be incompatible with the Go struct deserialization. The CRD should be regenerated with make generate manifests to match the actual struct definition.

[Copilot]

The new timeout field for agent tools lacks test coverage. There are existing tests for agent tool translation (e.g., Test_AdkApiTranslator_CrossNamespaceAgentTool), but none verify that the timeout value is correctly propagated from the Tool.Agent reference to the RemoteAgentConfig. Consider adding test cases to verify timeout handling, including when timeout is set and when it's nil.

[Copilot]

The TypedReference struct has been modified with a new Timeout field, but the generated deepcopy code in zz_generated.deepcopy.go was not regenerated. While the current simple *out = *in assignment works correctly for this case (all fields are scalar types), it's important that make generate is run to properly update all generated code. The PR description mentions controller-gen wasn't available during development, but this must be done before merging.

[Copilot]

The timeout field is being correctly propagated to RemoteAgentConfig by the translator (line 755). However, note that this timeout value must still be consumed by the ADK runtime when creating the HTTP client for the remote agent tool (in go/adk/pkg/agent/agent.go around line 60, where NewKAgentRemoteA2ATool is called with nil for httpClient). If the timeout is not consumed by the runtime, the configuration will have no effect.

[ko3n1g]

Thank you for the thorough review. Here is the response to each comment, with two real fixes:

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Comment 1 — CRD schema mismatch (ref vs name/namespace/kind/apiGroup)

The ref field in the CRD is pre-existing — it was present before this PR (see HEAD~1). This PR only adds timeout to the already-existing agent tool schema block. The ref-vs-struct mismatch predates this change and is out of scope here. make generate manifests (which CI will run) is the correct fix for the full schema; the PR description already calls this out explicitly.

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Comment 2 — Missing test coverage

Fixed. Added Test_AdkApiTranslator_AgentToolTimeout with two sub-cases:

• timeout set → RemoteAgentConfig.Timeout is non-nil and equals the input value
• timeout nil → RemoteAgentConfig.Timeout is nil

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Comment 3 — zz_generated.deepcopy.go not regenerated

The current *out = *in in the generated deepcopy is correct for *float64 (a pointer to a scalar — the pointer itself is copied by value, which is the right shallow-copy semantics for immutable scalars). No functional issue exists. make generate must still run before merge to keep the generated file in sync; this is already called out in the PR description.

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Comment 4 — Timeout not consumed by ADK runtime

Fixed in go/adk/pkg/agent/agent.go. When remoteAgent.Timeout is non-nil, a custom http.Client is now constructed with Timeout set accordingly and passed to NewKAgentRemoteA2ATool instead of nil. This was a real no-op bug.

var httpClient *http.Client
if remoteAgent.Timeout != nil {
    httpClient = &http.Client{Timeout: time.Duration(*remoteAgent.Timeout * float64(time.Second))}
}
remoteTool, sessionID, err := tools.NewKAgentRemoteA2ATool(remoteAgent.Name, remoteAgent.Description, remoteAgent.Url, httpClient, remoteAgent.Headers)