diff --git a/packages/a2a-server/Dockerfile b/packages/a2a-server/Dockerfile
index 0d4fd8f7b1..bb24fb24e7 100644
--- a/packages/a2a-server/Dockerfile
+++ b/packages/a2a-server/Dockerfile
@@ -3,7 +3,16 @@
 FROM docker.io/library/node:20-slim
 
 RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-  python3 curl git jq ripgrep ca-certificates \
+  python3 curl git jq ripgrep ca-certificates gpg apt-transport-https \
+  && curl -fsSL https://cli.github.com/packages/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
+     | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg \
+  && echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/githubcli-archive-keyring.gpg] https://cli.github.com/packages stable main" \
+     > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/github-cli.list \
+  && curl -fsSL https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg \
+     | gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg \
+  && echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/cloud.google.gpg] https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt cloud-sdk main" \
+     > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list \
+  && apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends gh google-cloud-cli \
   && apt-get clean && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
 
 WORKDIR /app
diff --git a/packages/a2a-server/src/chat-bridge/a2a-bridge-client.ts b/packages/a2a-server/src/chat-bridge/a2a-bridge-client.ts
index 80af71657f..0c07e8dc47 100644
--- a/packages/a2a-server/src/chat-bridge/a2a-bridge-client.ts
+++ b/packages/a2a-server/src/chat-bridge/a2a-bridge-client.ts
@@ -28,9 +28,21 @@ import {
   JsonRpcTransportFactory,
 } from '@a2a-js/sdk/client';
 import { GoogleAuth } from 'google-auth-library';
+import { Agent } from 'undici';
 import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { logger } from '../utils/logger.js';
 
+/**
+ * Undici agent with long timeouts for SSE streaming.
+ * Default body/headers timeouts are ~30s which kills idle SSE connections
+ * when the agent runs long tools (npm install, tsc builds, etc.).
+ */
+const sseDispatcher = new Agent({
+  bodyTimeout: 10 * 60 * 1000, // 10 minutes
+  headersTimeout: 10 * 60 * 1000,
+  keepAliveTimeout: 10 * 60 * 1000,
+});
+
 // Inline A2UI constants so the chat bridge has no dependency on ../a2ui/
 const A2UI_EXTENSION_URI = 'https://a2ui.org/a2a-extension/a2ui/v0.10';
 const A2UI_MIME_TYPE = 'application/json+a2ui';
@@ -169,8 +181,13 @@ export class A2ABridgeClient {
   async initialize(): Promise<void> {
     if (this.client) return;
 
-    // On Cloud Run, create an authenticated fetch that adds identity tokens
-    let fetchImpl: typeof fetch = fetch;
+    // Create fetch wrapper with long SSE timeouts.
+    // On Cloud Run, also add identity tokens for service-to-service auth.
+    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
+    const baseFetch = (input: any, init?: any) =>
+      fetch(input, { ...init, dispatcher: sseDispatcher });
+
+    let fetchImpl: typeof fetch = baseFetch;
     if (process.env['K_SERVICE']) {
       const auth = new GoogleAuth();
       const idTokenClient = await auth.getIdTokenClient(this.agentUrl);
@@ -180,7 +197,7 @@ export class A2ABridgeClient {
         for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(authHeaders)) {
           merged.set(key, value);
         }
-        return fetch(input, { ...init, headers: merged });
+        return baseFetch(input, { ...init, headers: merged });
       };
       logger.info(
         '[ChatBridge] Using Cloud Run identity token for A2A server auth',
diff --git a/packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.ts b/packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.ts
index b20d3051db..5ed173e217 100644
--- a/packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.ts
+++ b/packages/a2a-server/src/http/app.ts
@@ -206,6 +206,29 @@ export async function createApp() {
       requestStorage.run({ req }, next);
     });
 
+    // SSE keepalive — sends periodic comment lines to prevent Cloud Run's
+    // load balancer from closing idle SSE connections during long tool
+    // executions (npm install, tsc builds, etc.). SSE comments (`: ...`)
+    // are ignored by conformant parsers per the spec.
+    expressApp.use((req, res, next) => {
+      const origFlush = res.flushHeaders;
+      res.flushHeaders = function (this: express.Response) {
+        origFlush.call(this);
+        const ct = this.getHeader('content-type');
+        if (ct && String(ct).includes('text/event-stream')) {
+          const timer = setInterval(() => {
+            if (!res.writableEnded) {
+              res.write(': keepalive\n\n');
+            } else {
+              clearInterval(timer);
+            }
+          }, 15_000);
+          res.on('close', () => clearInterval(timer));
+        }
+      };
+      next();
+    });
+
     // Google Chat bridge runs as a separate service (src/chat-bridge/server.ts).
     // It connects to this A2A server over HTTP.
     const appBuilder = new A2AExpressApp(requestHandler);
diff --git a/packages/a2a-server/src/persistence/gcs.ts b/packages/a2a-server/src/persistence/gcs.ts
index 2747bc054b..f97995195f 100644
--- a/packages/a2a-server/src/persistence/gcs.ts
+++ b/packages/a2a-server/src/persistence/gcs.ts
@@ -345,6 +345,8 @@ export class GCSTaskStore implements TaskStore {
 }
 
 export class NoOpTaskStore implements TaskStore {
+  private cache = new Map<string, SDKTask>();
+
   constructor(private realStore: TaskStore) {}
 
   async save(task: SDKTask): Promise<void> {
@@ -353,9 +355,20 @@ export class NoOpTaskStore implements TaskStore {
   }
 
   async load(taskId: string): Promise<SDKTask | undefined> {
+    const cached = this.cache.get(taskId);
+    if (cached) {
+      logger.info(
+        `[NoOpTaskStore] load called for task ${taskId}, returning cached.`,
+      );
+      return cached;
+    }
     logger.info(
       `[NoOpTaskStore] load called for task ${taskId}, delegating to real store.`,
     );
-    return this.realStore.load(taskId);
+    const result = await this.realStore.load(taskId);
+    if (result) {
+      this.cache.set(taskId, result);
+    }
+    return result;
   }
 }