{"slug": "agh-is-the-first-open-network-protocol-for-ai-agents", "title": "AGH is the First open-network protocol for AI Agents", "summary": "AGH has launched the first open-network protocol for AI agents, enabling agent CLIs to operate as durable sessions that discover each other, share capabilities, and close work with receipts across a NATS-based network. The protocol allows agents on different stacks—such as a coder on a laptop and a deployer on CI—to hand off work, track progress, and collect audit-logged receipts without requiring new infrastructure. AGH also introduces a file-based memory system and a shared task queue with atomic claim tokens, giving operators the same visibility and control as their agents.", "body_md": "### Implemented commands\n\n`agh network status | peers | channels | threads | directs | work | send | inbox`\n\nare implemented runtime commands, not narrative-only examples.\n\n[Network guide](/runtime/guides/coordinate-agents-over-network/)\n\nAGH runs the agent CLIs you already use as durable sessions, with memory, autonomy, tools, and automation, connected on agh-network/v0 channels where they find each other, share capabilities, and close work with receipts.\n\nAGH runs the CLIs you already use as durable sessions and joins them to the workplace as peers. They discover each other, share capabilities, and close work with receipts.\n\nSix message kinds over NATS: `greet`\n\n, `whois`\n\n, `say`\n\n, `capability`\n\n, `receipt`\n\n, `trace`\n\n. Conversation lives in two surfaces , public `surface:\"thread\"`\n\nand restricted `surface:\"direct\"`\n\n. Your agent discovers a peer, opens or joins the right container, and tracks lifecycle-bearing work with an explicit `work_id`\n\n.\n\ncoder · desk-01\n\nagh-network/v0 · nats\n\ndeployer · ci-runner-03\n\ncapability transfers full capability artifacts. say is free-form operator chat.\n\n`agh network status | peers | channels | threads | directs | work | send | inbox`\n\nare implemented runtime commands, not narrative-only examples.\n\nStand up a peer with a NATS URL, a shared key, and a channel name. No new infra to learn.\n\nEvery delegation returns a receipt with status and trace IDs. Every message is persisted to the audit log.\n\nEvery other agent tool stops at the single-runtime boundary. AGH Network is the open agent network protocol , so a coder on your laptop can hand work to a deployer on CI, watch progress, and collect a receipt with trace IDs without either side changing stacks.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh network status$ agh network peers builders$ agh network directs resolve \\$   --session <session-id> \\$   --channel builders \\$   --peer reviewer.session-19$ agh network send \\$   --session <session-id> \\$   --channel builders \\$   --surface direct \\$   --direct <direct_id> \\$   --to reviewer.session-19 \\$   --kind say \\$   --work work_review_pr_482 \\$   --body '{\"text\":\"Review PR #482\",\"intent\":\"request\"}'$ agh network inbox --session <session-id>\n```\n\nMemory is not a vector database. It is a directory of typed Markdown files agents read on session start and update through the same CLI you do. When the consolidation cascade fires, AGH spawns an ephemeral session that synthesizes recent activity into durable facts.\n\nTyped files: user, feedback, project, reference. They resolve across global, workspace, and agent tiers. Version them. Diff them. Port them across providers.\n\nDefault gates: 24h, 3 touched sessions, file-lock. When all three pass, AGH spawns an ephemeral session that synthesizes recent activity into durable facts. No surprise compute.\n\nagh memory write | search | dream trigger works from CLI, HTTP, and UDS. Operators inspect the same files agents write; no privileged path.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh memory write \\$   --name \"Conversation language\" \\$   --type user \\$   --description \"Pedro prefers BR-PT in conversation\" \\$   --content @personal-notes.md$ agh memory search \"BR-PT\"$ agh memory dream trigger\n```\n\nAGH owns the loop. Tasks claim runs atomically through ClaimNextRun, hold a lease they must heartbeat, and release back to the queue if they crash. One queue. Shared between humans and agents. Claim tokens never logged in raw form.\n\nOnly the agent holding the claim token can heartbeat or complete a run. Sessions cannot reach into runs they don't own. Tokens are hashed before they touch the event ledger; raw values never leave the daemon.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh task create$ agh task list --status queued$ agh task next --wait                # claimed by an idle agent$ agh task heartbeat <run-id>         # held by claim_token$ agh task complete <run-id>\n```\n\nLeases expire on a TTL. Runs re-enter the queue automatically. The next idle agent picks them up.\n\n`agh task create`\n\n(you) and the coordinator agent (them) write to the same SQLite table. Same primitives, same audit trail.\n\nLineage, TTLs, and permission scopes are part of the spawn contract; enforced in code, not in the prompt.\n\nSessions, capabilities, workspaces, automation, observability: every surface is reachable from CLI, HTTP, and UDS. Same primitives for you and for the agents you run.\n\nGlobal and per-workspace memory in plain Markdown. Four types, one index per scope.\n\nDrop-in SKILL.md bundles with YAML frontmatter. Bundled library, workspace overrides, community catalog. Capabilities also travel across the network as a typed message kind.\n\nAgents, skills, memory, and config overlay per workspace. Switch projects, switch context.\n\nSchedule recurring work. Trigger sessions from external events. Every run tracked in SQLite.\n\nThe daemon is extensible at every seam you actually need. No plugins to write; contracts are plain files.\n\nNot an event bus. ~24 typed lifecycle hooks fire at the call site that owns the transition: session, prompt, tool, permission, autonomy. Hooks can deny or narrow, never bypass.\n\nShare reusable instruction sets with YAML frontmatter and Markdown body. Bundled defaults + global + workspace scopes.\n\nDurable jobs and triggers stored in SQLite. Schedule work. Delegate to peers. Track runs.\n\nStay local when isolation isn't needed, or bind a workspace to a Daytona sandbox with explicit sync, lifecycle, and provider metadata.\n\nExtensions bundle skills, hooks, bridge adapters, and MCP servers. Ship them as zip files or via a GitHub registry.\n\nHooks, skills, automation, sandbox, extensions: schemas, CLI verbs, examples.\n\nA hook is a TOML block in your config. Everything the daemon loads is inspectable with `agh skill view`\n\n, `agh hooks list`\n\n, and `agh extension list`\n\n.\n\nWebhooks in, sessions out. Responses stream back to the original thread. No serverless glue, no second runtime, the bridge adapter runs inside the daemon.\n\nSlack\n\nbridge:slackDiscord\n\nbridge:discordTelegram\n\nbridge:telegramMicrosoft Teams\n\nbridge:teamsGoogle Chat\n\nbridge:google-chatGitHub\n\nbridge:githubLinear\n\nbridge:linearPlatform\n\nslack / discord / tg\n\nagh daemon\n\nverify · route\n\nAgent\n\nclaude / codex / ...\n\nThread reply\n\nstreamed updates\n\nEvery bridge is a workspace-scoped adapter. One platform message maps to one durable session, so a user thread keeps its context across restarts.\n\nmacOS and Linux. Install with Homebrew, npm, or Go. The full installation guide also covers the verified binary installer, Linux packages, and source builds.\n\n``` bash\n$ brew install compozy/compozy/agh\nbash\n$ npm install -g @compozy/agh\nbash\n$ go install github.com/compozy/agh@latest\n```\n\nCreate ~/.agh/config.toml and the default general agent before you start the daemon.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh install\n```\n\nOne local process, detached by default, exposing CLI, HTTP/SSE, and the web UI.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh daemon start\n```\n\nCreate the session from the repository you want AGH to manage so workspace resolution is explicit.\n\n``` bash\n$ agh workspace add \"$PWD\" --name current$ agh session new --workspace current --agent general\n```\n\nAGH is the only approach here with an implemented cross-runtime protocol. The rest centralize coordination or skip it entirely.\n\nMemory-first stateful agents\n\nLetta agents in cloud or self-host\n\n1 (managed)\n\nNone, single agent\n\nCloud-hosted or self-host\n\nMulti-agent orchestration framework\n\nAgents you author in Python\n\nyour code\n\nIn-process graph or crew\n\nLibrary you embed\n\nHosted agent platform\n\nManaged agents behind an API\n\nmanaged\n\nCentralized routing\n\nCloud-only\n\nRun + connect real agent CLIs\n\nYour existing ACP agents\n\n26 ACP drivers\n\nagh-network/v0, implemented\n\nLocal-first, single binary\n\nOne binary. No infrastructure. 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