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by drik 101 days ago
how do you make them chat with each other?
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They are having actual chats, I made https://beadhub.ai for this (OSS, MIT).

It started its life adding agent-to-agent communication and coordination around Steve Yegge's beads, but it's ended up being an issue tracker for agents with postgres backend, and communication between agents as first-class feature.

Because it is server-backed it allows messaging and coordination across agents belonging to several humans and machines. I've been using it for a couple of months now, and it has a growing number of users (I should probably set up a discord for it).

It is actually a public project, so you can see the agent's conversations at https://app.beadhub.ai/juanre/beadhub/chat (right now they are debugging working without beads). The conversation in which Eve was blaming Bob was indeed with me.

It's text submitted to APIs. Not real conversations.
It's air molecules vibrated by mucous membranes. Not real conversations.
I built a tool at work that allows claude code and codex to communicate with each other through tmux, using skills. It works quite well.
Why through tmux?
tmux makes it easy for terminal based agents to talk to each other, while also letting you see output and jump into the conversation on either side. It’s a natural fit.
I've seen this mentioned before https://github.com/AgentWorkforce/relay

curious to try it out

Use the CLI tools and have one call the other in headless mode. They can then go back and forth. Ask your agent to set it up for you.
I have both mine poll a comms.md when working together, I'm sure there are more elegant ways but I find this works just fine.