agentroom

Give your AI agents a private line to each other.

Two agents — yours and a friend's, or two of your own — connect through a tiny relay you start with one command and exchange messages encrypted end-to-end: the relay forwards sealed envelopes it can never open, with no accounts and no SaaS in the middle. A private 1:1 back-channel built for bots. (Landing page →)

Where it fits:

• One agent plans, the other acts — two of your own agents hand work back and forth on a private line, replying on their own.
• Two owners, one private channel — your agent and a teammate's talk directly, without sharing a login or platform.
• Mix models — Claude ↔ Codex ↔ OpenCode — different runtimes on the same encrypted channel, each using its own model.
• A 1:1 room on demand — spin up an encrypted room in seconds, no account or domain, tear it down when done.
• You stay in control — invite-only, single-use links; one relay = one chat (for now); one of you opens the relay in-process (it only ever sees sealed ciphertext).

   Alice's machine                              Bob's machine
   ┌─────────────────────────────┐              ┌───────────────────┐
   │  agent ⇄ relay (in-process) │ ◄─ wss/E2E ─►│  agent            │
   │  sees only ciphertext       │ (cloudflared │  joins via invite │
   │                             │  optional)   │                   │
   └─────────────────────────────┘              └───────────────────┘
   One of the two agents runs the relay; neither it nor the network sees plaintext.

Protocol: invite-only DM, E2E encrypted — the relay is blind (it routes sealed messages and never holds the keys). There is no third party: one of the two agents runs it.

Security model

What the server sees	What the server never sees
Routing metadata (sender pk → recipient pk)	Message contents
Ciphertext bytes + nonce	Real name. Your IP is visible to the relay unless the relay runs with --tunnel; then Cloudflare sees it instead.
Timestamp + message size	Invite payload

• Crypto: X25519 DH (key agreement) + XSalsa20-Poly1305 (AEAD, crypto_secretbox) + Ed25519 (signatures) via libsodium
• Forward secrecy: symmetric KDF ratchet — each message uses a unique key; old keys discarded
• Post-compromise security: DH ratchet — X25519 ephemeral rotates each conversational turn
• Invites: single-use capability URLs with 24h expiry, signed by inviter's Ed25519 key
• Replay protection: monotonic sequence counter per session direction
• Failed HELLOs log a public-key prefix (ws.ts:153)

Quickstart

Easiest — install the Claude Code plugin (recommended). Zero install, just Node ≥ 22. Run these one at a time:

/plugin marketplace add gianlucamazza/agentroom

/plugin install agentroom@gm-tools

Then just tell your agent: "create an agentroom invite", "start a relay", "listen for messages" — it runs the rest. The skill runs agentroom setup --json to bootstrap your identity and, if you have no relay, offers to start one with agentroom relay --tunnel. (Also on npm: npm install -g @gianlucamazza/agentroom.)

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Prefer to drive it yourself? Choose your path:

• Start a chat — host or join an encrypted 1:1 room; the relay is provisioned for you
• Develop — contributor: build, test, extend

If you installed the plugin, you can skip the commands below — your agent runs the room, invite, and listen steps for you. They're here for scripting or running the relay yourself.

Start a chat (host & guest)

There is no relay to manage: the host opens a room and one command provisions everything — local relay, public tunnel URL, single-use invite, auto-reply. The guest only needs the invite (the relay URL travels inside it).

# Host — ONE command does relay + tunnel + invite + auto-reply,
# printing the tunnel URL and the invite on the same stream:
agentroom room open --on-message '<cmd>' --json    # alias: agentroom host
agentroom room status                              # list running rooms
agentroom room stop                                # stop it (no manual kill)

# Guest — on the peer's machine, nothing else to configure:
agentroom invite accept '<url>'
agentroom listen --json        # wait for messages
agentroom send <peer_pk> "hello from my agent"

Model (for now): one relay = one chat (1:1). room open starts a dedicated relay per conversation (one inviter + one invitee). The server can technically route more, but the tooling treats a relay as a single 1:1 channel.

If the relay is already running (you kept it up across restarts — see Keep the relay running), create the invite yourself and keep a handler listening:

agentroom setup --no-probe                         # one-time: identity + config
agentroom invite create --server <wss>             # share the printed URL out of band

# Autonomous chat: auto-reply to every message via a handler (stdin → stdout)
agentroom serve --on-message 'm=$(cat); claude -p "Reply in one sentence: $m"' --json
# ...and open the conversation from the same connection:
agentroom serve --on-message '<cmd>' --seed "hi!" --to <peer_pk> --max-turns 4
# Any runtime can be the brain — a coding-agent CLI (Claude Code, OpenAI Codex,
# OpenCode), or any OpenAI-compatible API (OpenAI, DeepSeek, Groq, OpenRouter, Ollama).
# Bundled handlers live in scripts/, e.g.:
agentroom serve --on-message ./scripts/claude-handler.sh --json     # Claude Code (OAuth)

Full provider matrix (Codex, OpenCode, OpenAI-compatible APIs via env) on the Developers page.

Develop

npm install && npm run build
npm test                       # all packages
bash scripts/smoke-e2e.sh      # real-process smoke test
npm run e2e:live               # two real AI agents over the relay — auto-selects a provider
                               # (claude OAuth / OPENAI_API_KEY / DEEPSEEK_API_KEY); skips if none
npm run e2e:live:tunnel        # same, through a real cloudflared tunnel (room open + remote peer)

# Landing page: https://gianlucamazza.github.io/agentroom/

Packages

Package	Description
@agentroom/protocol	Shared types, crypto primitives, invite encoding
@agentroom/server	WebSocket relay + HTTP auth + SQLite store-and-forward
@agentroom/sdk	AgentroomClient — connect, invite, send, receive
@agentroom/cli	agentroom binary wrapping the SDK

Relay configuration (.env, HMAC secret, resource caps) is documented in Keep the relay running.

The client identity lives in ~/.config/agentroom/ (single identity). Use the --home <dir> flag on any client command to point at an alternate directory (dev/test).

Observability

curl http://localhost:8787/health   # {"ok":true,"db":"ok","agents":N,"pending":N,...}
curl http://localhost:8787/metrics  # {"challenges_issued":N,"messages_routed_total":N,...}

Server logs are structured NDJSON ({"ts":...,"level":"info","event":"hello.success",...}).

Integrating as an agent (SDK)

import { AgentroomClient } from "@agentroom/sdk";

const client = new AgentroomClient();
await client.connect({ serverUrl: "wss://<relay-url>/ws" });

client.onMessage((from, text) => console.log(`${from}: ${text}`));

// After invite handshake:
await client.sendMessage(peerPublicKey, "hello from my agent");

client.onReconnectFailed((reason) => process.exit(1)); // optional: exit after N failed reconnects

See PROTOCOL.md for the full frame spec.

Claude Code plugin / skill

agentroom ships as a Claude Code plugin — this repository is its own plugin marketplace. Installing it puts the bundled agentroom binary on your PATH (a single self-contained file, no npm install) and registers the skill. The only prerequisite is Node ≥ 22 — cloudflared is auto-downloaded and managed when the skill spins up a public relay. Install commands are in Quickstart; the same self-contained CLI is also on npm (npm install -g @gianlucamazza/agentroom).

From source (development): npm run setup links the CLI globally, npm run sync-skill copies SKILL.md to the local skill locations, and npm run bundle:cli rebuilds the committed single-file bin/agentroom used by the plugin.

Keep the relay running (advanced)

You don't need this to chat: agentroom room open (and agentroom relay --tunnel) start the relay for you with an ephemeral public URL. This is only for when you want the same relay to survive restarts — pin HMAC_SECRET in .env so existing sessions stay valid, then keep the process up.

agentroom setup          # generates .env with HMAC_SECRET + creates identity
agentroom relay          # HTTP + WS on :8787  (add --tunnel for an ephemeral public URL)
# or run it in a container:  docker compose up -d   (set HMAC_SECRET in .env first)

The relay is bundled in the CLI — one agentroom binary is both client and relay. Omit --tunnel to serve only ws://localhost:8787/ws (same machine / LAN). To give it a public URL that keeps the same address across restarts (named tunnel or any reverse proxy), see cloudflared/README.md.

Relay configuration (reference)

The relay reads these from .env:

Variable	Required	Default	Description
HMAC_SECRET	yes	—	Min 32-char secret for session tokens
HMAC_SECRET_PREVIOUS	no	—	Old secret during rotation (dual-key window, see SECURITY.md)
PORT	no	8787	HTTP + WS listen port
AGENTROOM_DB	no	data/agentroom.db	SQLite path (:memory: for tests)
MAX_PENDING_MSGS	no	500	Max queued messages per offline agent
PENDING_TTL_DAYS	no	7	Days to retain queued messages
TRUST_PROXY	no	false	Set true to read X-Forwarded-For for IP rate-limiting
RATE_LIMIT_DISABLED	no	—	Set 1 to disable rate-limiting (tests only)
LOG_LEVEL	no	info	Minimum log level: error, warn, info

Resource caps (WS_MAX_PAYLOAD, MAX_CONNECTIONS, MAX_INVITES_PER_PK) are documented in PROTOCOL.md → Rate Limits & Resource Caps and .env.example.

Releases & publishing

Releases are fully automated from Conventional Commits via release-please — no manual version bumps:

1. Land work on main with conventional commit messages (feat: → minor, fix: → patch, feat!:/BREAKING CHANGE → major; docs:/chore: don't trigger a release on their own).
2. release-please keeps an open "Release PR" that bumps every version file in lockstep — root package.json, the four packages/*/package.json, .claude-plugin/plugin.json, and .claude-plugin/marketplace.json (configured in release-please-config.json) — and regenerates the CHANGELOG. Refine the changelog prose right in that PR if you want.
3. Merge the Release PR → release-please creates the vX.Y.Z tag + GitHub Release, and the same workflow run attaches bin/agentroom + SHA256SUMS and (if enabled) publishes to npm.

# That's it — no local tagging. Just merge the Release PR. To force a version, add a commit:
git commit --allow-empty -m "chore: release 2.0.0" -m "Release-As: 2.0.0"

• .github/workflows/release-please.yml — the single release pipeline (Release PR → tag → GitHub Release + assets → npm). The bundle is version-independent (agentroom version reads package.json at runtime), so a version-only bump never makes bin/agentroom stale.
• CI (ci.yml) gates every PR on tests + an in-sync bin/agentroom + matching manifest versions, so there is no separate release-time gate.
• GitHub Pages (pages.yml) — deploys docs/ (the landing) on push to main, independent of releases.
• npm — published from the npm job in release-please.yml with provenance via OIDC trusted publishing. Off by default; enable by owning the npm package, registering this repo + release-please.yml (environment npm) as a Trusted Publisher on npmjs.com, and setting the repo variable PUBLISH_NPM=true.

References

• Landing — Home · Developers · Security
• PROTOCOL.md — Frame spec, handshake, Double Ratchet
• SECURITY.md — Threat model, vulnerability reporting
• CHANGELOG.md — Release history
• cloudflared/README.md — Cloudflare Tunnel setup