We are excited to share that the extended abstract “On two-degrees-of-freedom agreement protocols” by Gal Barkai, Leonid Mirkin, and Daniel Zelazo, was accepted for presentation at the 2026 MTNS meeting in Waterloo, Canada this summer. The work introduces a novel distributed control architecture for multi-agent systems. We depart from classical consensus protocols by leveraging a two-degrees-of-freedom (2DOF) design that separates local feedback from network-level filtering. This separation enables improved robustness to noise and disturbances, accommodates heterogeneous agents, and provides greater flexibility in shaping agreement dynamics. The framework is supported by theoretical analysis and numerical examples demonstrating enhanced disturbance rejection and noise attenuation capabilities. A preprint is available here: arXiv .