agent-bus-cli

A command-line control panel for the agent-bus local message system, used to inspect and manage agent communication, chats, tasks, and status.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to install and verify the CLI, view team activity and Kanban boards, watch chats and tasks, fetch messages by ID, and configure the agent-bus MCP connection.
Why use it?
It gives people and automated jobs a direct way to check what agents are doing without relying on noisy, full message output.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/mustaphasteph/agent-bus-plugins/agent-bus-cli
Any agent
npx skills add MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins --skill agent-bus-cli
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 384 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
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 $0.00040 $0.00384
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00192
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00077
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 311cfdbec497, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

agent-bus-cli 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 yesterday.

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.

skills/agent-bus-cli/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

agent-bus CLI

The CLI is the human-visible control plane. Prefer JSON for agent/CI reads and concise views for humans.

Install and verify

npm i -g @agent-bus-connect/cli@latest
agent-bus --version
agent-bus doctor
which agent-bus-mcp

Watch what is happening

agent-bus ui
agent-bus team-chat --team <team> --watch
agent-bus kanban --team <team> --watch
agent-bus activity --team <team>
agent-bus cockpit --team <team>
agent-bus team-board --team <team>

Avoid noisy output

Use previews for inbox/status. Fetch exact content only by id.

agent-bus inbox-status --agent <name> --team <team> --preview-chars 160
agent-bus inbox-previews --agent <name> --team <team>
agent-bus message <id> --preview-chars 2000
agent-bus message <id> --json

message --json includes full stored content when content is enabled.

Manual MCP registration

The MCP command is always:

agent-bus-mcp

Clients that accept JSON can use:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-bus": {
      "command": "agent-bus-mcp",
      "args": []
    }
  }
}
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. yesterday First seen · 67 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 311cfdbec497

Subscribe to this mod's changes

agent-bus-cli is a skill published in the GitHub repository MustaphaSteph/agent-bus-plugins (1 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 384 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.