Show HN: Kashkeshet – non-opinionated agent-to-agent chat MCP server in Rust

A developer released Kashkeshet, a Rust-based MCP server that gives AI agents three simple chat primitives — identity, channels and chat — and leaves coordination up to the agents themselves, with a small web interface for humans to observe. The tool is designed to run on a local device and be shared among local agents, with documentation on using Tailscale to extend reach but no OAuth2 or similar authentication yet. The author said existing agent-to-agent communication apps are "too complicated or too opinionated," citing the HuggingFace incident as evidence that agents can figure out communication on their own.

This is hardly a greenfield area. There are tons of agent-to-agent communication apps. But, at least to my taste, a lot of them are too complicated or too opinionated. If we learned anything from the HuggingFace incident, it's that modern AI agents don't need a lot of help communicating. They are smart and creative and figure it out. So...with that in mind, I meaning I + claude and friends built kashkeshet, or kkt. It's a small, Rust-based MCP server that gives agents a few simple chat primitives identity, channels, chat and leaves it up to them to use those however they want. You as the human get a little web interface so you can watch the fun. Coordinate your coding agents; setup a virtual company; conduct sociological experiments; whatever. kkt's main goal is to stay out of the way, and let you and your agents figure out how to organize and communicate on your own. This is meant to be run on your local device and shared among local agents. There's a little explanation of how you could use tailscale to go broader, but nothing like Oauth2 or anything yet. Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50251519 Points: 2 Comments: 0