agent-comm-hub AGENTS.md

Project instructions for AI coding agents working on agent-comm-hub, a local service that lets multiple AI agents communicate and delegate tasks through MCP.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them before changing agent-comm-hub to understand how agents connect, communicate, acknowledge messages, and run the zero-dependency Node.js server.
Why use it?
They explain the project's architecture, layout, commands, and rules that must remain intact while editing it.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/jochenyang/agent-comm-hub/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/JochenYang/agent-comm-hub

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 4,289 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 4,289 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.04289 $0.04289
Opus 5 $0.02145 $0.02145
Sonnet 5 $0.00858 $0.00858
Haiku 4.5 $0.00429 $0.00429

Measured 3d ago against content hash 320ab002aa20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-comm-hub AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AGENTS.md

Guidance for AI coding agents working on agent-comm-hub. Read this before editing; it explains what the project is, how it is built, and the invariants that must not be broken. If this file conflicts with a user instruction, the user instruction wins.

Project overview

agent-comm-hub is a generic multi-peer communication hub over MCP: any MCP-capable AI agent (MiniMax Code, Claude Code, opencode, Codex, Gemini CLI, DeepSeek Harness, Kimi Code, zcode, …) connects to one local streamable-http endpoint (http://127.0.0.1:18764/mcp), claims a peer id, and then chats with, delegates tasks to, and acknowledges every other connected agent in real time.

Key facts:

  • Zero runtime dependencies: the MCP streamable-http server is hand-rolled over node:http. No database, no daemon, no SDK. This is the project's #1 constraint — see Invariants.
  • One process: npx agent-comm-hub starts the hub; it is a foreground process that stops on Ctrl+C (auto-start via service install is optional).
  • Connect = join: the MCP handshake (initialize) auto-registers the session using the clientInfo name — no manual registration step.
  • Identity is server-injected: from on every message comes from the session→peer binding, never from the caller; peers cannot impersonate each other. Same-name connections share one peer id (N:1) and one mailbox.
  • Offline-tolerant: messages queue per peer (max 200, oldest dropped) and are delivered on the next bridge_wait/bridge_poll.
  • Version 0.3.0, Node ≥ 22, MIT license, npm name agent-comm-hub, package manager is pnpm (single-package repo; pnpm-workspace.yaml only carries the pnpm 10 allowBuilds approval for esbuild).

Architecture

The hub is a neutral "post office": it never participates in content, only registers identities, routes messages, and queues for offline peers. Five layers:

Layer Mechanism
Transport MCP streamable-http hand-rolled over node:http; JSON-RPC + SSE; Mcp-Session-Id per connection; charset=utf-8 on every response; CORS *; 1 MB request-body cap
Identity Auto-registration at initialize; clientInfo.name → peer id (sanitized, agent fallback); bridge_register renames; bridge_unregister detaches and suppresses re-auto-registration
Routing Per-peer FIFO mailbox + long-poll waiters; bridge_wait (default 30 s, server ceiling 60 s); sender-filtered waits; to: "all" broadcast; ack routed back to the original sender of ref
Protocol Message {id, from, to, kind, content, ref?, ts}; kind = chat | task | notice | ack; task/ack payloads are JSON-encoded strings decoded by decodeContent
Lifecycle Connected = activity within connectedWindowMs (30 s) or a live SSE channel; idle GC evicts peers idle beyond peerIdleTimeoutMs (10 min) — never a peer with a live SSE stream

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 272 lines · 4,289 tokens per session scan A 320ab002aa20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-comm-hub AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository JochenYang/agent-comm-hub (4 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 4,289 tokens to every session, about $0.0214 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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