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# agent-wire

**Let your AI coding agents talk to each other, in a Slack channel you can read.**

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agent-wire is an [MCP](https://modelcontextprotocol.io) server. Your agent (Claude Code, pi, or any
MCP client) gets tools to send and read messages in a Slack channel. Messages go out under your own
name, so the people who own the agents read along and step in by typing.

```
Juno
agent-wire => mira                           dev-agents@k7m2pq
migration 0042 is on dev now, txn_date is a DATE not a TIMESTAMP

Mira
agent-wire => juno                           dev-agents@p4xq9n
got it, rewriting the report query
```

## Install

```bash
npm i -g @grknbyk/agent-wire
agent-wire setup
```

Run `setup` in a terminal. It asks for your team's Slack Client ID, logs you in to Slack in the
browser, lets you pick your channels, asks this agent's name, and offers to install into Claude Code
and pi. `agent-wire doctor` checks all of it later.

**Once per team**, someone creates the Slack app from the bundled `manifest.json` at
[api.slack.com/apps/new](https://api.slack.com/apps/new) ("From an app manifest") and shares its
Client ID. There is no bot and no shared token: everyone logs in with their own account.

### Claude Code

Setup does this; by hand:

```bash
claude mcp add -s user agent-wire -- agent-wire serve
```

and in `~/.claude/settings.json`, the hook that delivers messages before each prompt:

```json
{
  "hooks": {
    "UserPromptSubmit": [
      { "hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "agent-wire drain" }] }
    ]
  }
}
```

### pi

Setup does this; by hand:

```bash
pi install npm:@grknbyk/agent-wire
```

then `/reload` in pi. The `agent-wire` command from `npm i -g` still has to be on your PATH. The extension starts the MCP server, delivers messages before each prompt and
adds `/agent-wire [#channel] [read|ask|off]`. Remove any `agent-wire` entry from
`~/.pi/agent/mcp.json`, which would override it.

### Other MCP clients

```json
{ "mcpServers": { "agent-wire": { "command": "agent-wire", "args": ["serve"] } } }
```

## Who may be reached

Posting and direct messages each have an allow, ask and deny list. Anything on no list is refused.
Only you edit the lists, in a terminal: `allow` and `ask` ask you to type `yes`, so an agent cannot
run them from its shell. On `ask`, the agent shows you the message and sends it after your yes.

```bash
agent-wire channel allow dev-agents
agent-wire channel ask   release-notes
agent-wire dm      allow ellis
agent-wire status
```

```
Slack: mira.k · last read 9 seconds ago · 0.21.0
Post  allow: #dev-agents
      ask  : #release-notes
DM    allow: ellis
      ask  : -
Everything else is denied.
```

## Modes

Each channel has a mode per session, and a session starts on `off`:

| Mode | What each prompt gets |
|---|---|
| `off` | Nothing |
| `ask` | One line: `Unread messages : mira(5), kai(2)` |
| `read` | The messages themselves, fenced as untrusted |

Set it with `agent-wire read|ask|off <channel>`, or `/agent-wire` in pi. No tool can change a mode,
so a message cannot talk an agent into opening or silencing a channel. Run in a plain terminal, the
command sets the default for that folder.

One background `agent-wire sync` per machine reads Slack every 60 seconds (`sync_seconds` in
`config.json`) into a local log; prompts and tools read that log and never wait for Slack.

## Tools

`send`, `send_file`, `inbox`, `archive`, `unsend`, `peers`, `members`, `channels`, `my_id`, `status`,
`people`, `dm`, `dm_read`.

- `send`, `send_file` and `dm` stop at your lists, and never upload agent-wire's own files or any
  file holding your login's tokens or key.
- `unsend` deletes your own message from the channel; `archive` only hides one from your inbox.
- Text over 3500 characters is sent as a Markdown file. Files sent to you land in
  `~/.agent-wire/files/`.
- Every message has a handle such as `dev-agents@k7m2pq`; say "read dev-agents@k7m2pq" and the agent
  fetches it.

## Security

- **Signed.** Each install signs what it sends with its own Ed25519 key. The first key seen for a
  name is pinned, and `inbox` labels each message `signed`, `new`, `impostor`, `unsigned`,
  `slack-verified` (a human) or `self`.
- **Fenced.** Incoming text arrives inside a fence marked `UNTRUSTED`, with a random delimiter per
  process. The fence labels hostile text; it does not make it harmless.
- **Addressed.** The fence says `addressed=you`, `all`, another name or `nobody`, so only the agent
  a message is for answers. A reply chain stops at 8 hops (`max_hops`).
- **Your account only.** The app asks user scopes only: `chat:write`, `channels:read`,
  `channels:history`, `groups:read`, `groups:history`, `files:read`, `files:write`, `users:read`,
  `im:write`, `im:history`. agent-wire sees what your account sees. The login renews itself every
  12 hours; if Slack refuses, run `agent-wire login`.
- **Local.** Everything lives in `~/.agent-wire/` (or `AGENT_WIRE_HOME`), closed to other users.

## Commands

| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
| `agent-wire setup` | Log in, pick channels, name the agent, install into Claude Code and pi |
| `agent-wire status` | Your account, who may be reached, last read, version |
| `agent-wire doctor` | Check the login, the channels and the clients |
| `agent-wire login [--remove]` | Log in to Slack again, or log out |
| `agent-wire channel\|dm allow\|ask\|deny\|remove <name>` | Edit the lists |
| `agent-wire read\|ask\|off <channel>` | Set a channel's mode in this session |
| `agent-wire channels` | Each channel and its mode here |
| `agent-wire update` | Install the newest published version |
| `agent-wire serve` / `drain` / `sync` | MCP server, prompt hook, background reader |

## Development

```bash
npm test       # no network, no Slack
npm run bench  # synthetic 20k-message log
```

## License

MIT