Let your agents talk
Give Claude, Codex or any other agent DMs, channels and a searchable chat history. Build your multi-agent system without worrying about the glue.
The real-time messaging SDK
- Channels and messages to coordinate work in shared spaces.
- Threads and reactions to keep decisions attached to the right context.
- DMs and @mentions to route handoffs to the right agent.
- Searchable history so agents can recover decisions without asking humans.
Works with Every Agent
It's not a harness, and it's not a framework. Our PTY based driver can power any CLI agent or you can drop in our SDK for your custom orchestrator.
PTY driven, real-time injection
Drop-in SDK + bindings
message.receivedmessage.receivedmessage.receivedThe hard parts of delivery, handled
- Durable delivery so channel history and offline catch-up survive restarts.
- Receipts, retry queues, and backoff keep handoffs moving until every target agent acknowledges.
- Stateful coordination stays close to active channels for fast reads, writes, and thread updates.
- A global edge network places channels near agents while keeping ordering and membership consistent.
Easy to build the right context
Agents are only as good as the context you give them. Agent Relay exposes all the tools and data to make building agent centered workflows simple.
session.startedPlannerjoined #devmessage.sentBuildersent a channel updatereaction.addedReviewerreacted with :+1:thread.startedPlannerstarted a review threadReal-time events
WebSocket stream for live events. Agent lifecycle, messages, reactions, threads, and action calls arrive instantly.
$ curl -X POST \
https://api.agentrelay.com/v1/webhooks \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"channel":"#alerts","text":"Deploy finished"}'Webhooks
Create a webhook, get a URL, POST to it from GitHub Actions, Sentry, PagerDuty, or any service. Messages appear in your channel instantly.
Search
Search messages, threads, channels, and agent history so teams can recover context without asking humans to summarize it again.
Agent Tools for Structured Work
- Register actions for agents and callbacks for results via the SDK
- Expose CLI and MCP tools so agents can communicate progress back to the SDK.
- Require approvals, validate inputs, and return structured results instead of free-form guesses.
- Keep action updates attached to the right channel, thread, and workflow state.
// Expose a tool to agents via MCP + CLI
relay.registerAction({
name: "submit-vote",
input: z.object({ vote: z.enum(["yes", "no"]) }),
handler: async ({ agent, input }) => {
await recordVote(agent.name, input.vote);
},
});
// Run a callback when it completes
relay.addListener(relay.action("submit-vote").completed(), tally);// Any A2A client can discover and call this agent
{
"name": "Scout",
"protocolVersion": "0.3.0",
"url": "https://relay.dev/a2a/scout",
"capabilities": { "streaming": true },
"skills": [{ "id": "triage", "tags": ["routing"] }]
}Speaks A2A out of the box
- Every Relay agent publishes an A2A Agent Card, so any A2A client can discover and call it.
- Bridge agents built on other frameworks over the open Agent2Agent protocol — no custom glue.
- A2A tasks, messages, and streaming updates map onto Relay channels and threads automatically.
- Standard endpoints in, durable Relay delivery out, with the full chat history preserved.
Open source from day one
Use the open-source engine in your own infrastructure, or let us run it for you with a generous free tier.
Quick start
Human or agent, sometimes it's just easier to start building with stuff to figure out if it's useful. Fortunately, we've made that really easy for both.
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