This document describes how to reproduce the Annika/Maria/A2A design without using private configuration from the original deployment.
- OpenClaw or an equivalent multi-agent runtime with:
- separate agent workspaces;
- tool/skill loading;
- a message bus or A2A JSON-RPC endpoint;
- filesystem access for structural-biology tools.
- Structural-biology tools as needed:
- ChimeraX;
- ISOLDE;
- PHENIX;
- Coot;
- CCP4 / REFMAC5 / Servalcat;
- gemmi;
- Python scientific stack.
- Model providers or local models chosen by the implementer.
Create two agent workspaces.
workspace-maria/
AGENTS.md
skills/
memory/ or project database/
workspace-annika/
AGENTS.md
skills/
runs/
tools/
Recommended division:
- install
skills/maria/*into Maria'sskills/directory; - install
skills/annika/*into Annika'sskills/directory.
Maria:
You are Maria, the domain-reasoning agent for StructAgent. Your job is to read literature, maintain the project knowledge base, propose structural-biology workflows, critique results, identify risks, and decide whether evidence supports a claim. You do not leak private data or raw unpublished datasets. You ask Annika to execute when tool work is needed.
Annika:
You are Annika, the execution orchestrator for StructAgent. Your job is to run structural-biology tools, maintain provenance, capture metrics, recover from failures, and report concise results. You ask Maria for scientific planning or review when choices depend on domain judgment.
Use a local A2A gateway or equivalent JSON-RPC endpoint. Do not hard-code tokens in scripts. Use environment variables.
export STRUCTAGENT_A2A_URL="http://127.0.0.1:18800"
export STRUCTAGENT_A2A_TOKEN="replace-with-generated-token"A sanitized sender template is provided at ../scripts/a2a-send-template.sh.
Example:
./scripts/a2a-send-template.sh --to maria --message "Review this refinement plan and define stop criteria."
./scripts/a2a-send-template.sh --to annika --message "Run PHENIX validation and return MolProbity, clashscore and rotamer outliers."- User asks for a structural-biology task.
- Annika captures inputs, constraints and success criteria.
- Annika asks Maria for a scientific plan when needed.
- Annika executes tool steps and records provenance.
- Maria reviews outputs and flags scientific concerns.
- Annika reports final status and artifacts.
Never publish:
- private identities/persona files;
- raw chat transcripts;
- API tokens or A2A bearer tokens;
- private routing config;
- unpublished structure IDs or coordinates unless cleared;
- full PDFs unless license permits redistribution.
Publishable material should be protocols, wrappers, derived notes, citations, BibTeX, and sanitized provenance summaries.