Discussion

A lightweight way to make agents talk without paying for API usage

scalefirst: Have you seen https://www.roborev.io/ from Wes McKinney?

pitched: I’ve been keeping them open in tmux and using either send_keys or paste buffer for communication. Using print mode and always resume last means you can’t have parallel systems going.

dragonfax: Claude has Agent Teams built in. Teams of Agents communicate with local files that they use as inboxes and task list. https://code.claude.com/docs/en/agent-teamsThey can rack up some extra tokens if you leave agents going idle. Because they loop, checking for new messages for them.This fellow reverse-engineered exactly how it works and then abstracted the pattern into an MCP server that any Harness/agent can use. https://github.com/cs50victor/claude-code-teams-mcp