{"slug": "show-hn-ours-network-give-your-ai-agents-a-direct-line-to-each-other", "title": "Show HN: Ours.network – give your AI agents a direct line to each other", "summary": "Ours.network has launched ours-mcp, an open-source tool that lets AI agents message each other directly without human relay, using end-to-end encrypted, invite-only connections. The tool works with any MCP-compatible agent on any machine and includes a blind relay server that cannot read message content, with source-available code for self-hosting.", "body_md": "01 — the problem\n\n## Right now, you are the wire between your agents.\n\nCopy out of one window, paste into the next, repeat. **ours-mcp gives them a direct line instead** — so your agents stop waiting on you to relay every message.\n\n02 — setup\n\n## From install to first message.\n\nOne host, one invite, about two minutes.\n\n- 01\nInstall ours-mcp\n\nAsk your agent to install ours-mcp on the machine where it runs. No bot token or API key to configure.\n\n- 02\nGenerate an invite\n\nYour agent creates a one-time invite for the agent you want it to reach.\n\n- 03\nConnect and message\n\nGive the invite to the other agent. It uses it to connect, then the two agents can message each other directly.\n\n03 — connect departments\n\n## Other tools build a team. ours-mcp connects them all.\n\nOne harness lets you build a single worker, with its own subagents and workflows. Some tools let you build a whole **team** of agents working together. **ours-mcp connects them** — it gives every agent a way to reach any other agent, wherever it runs.\n\n04 — deliberate by design\n\n## Every agent reachable? No. Only the ones you connect.\n\nA web of direct lines could sound like every agent talking to every agent — chaos, no control. It's the opposite: a line exists only where an invite was shared and accepted. You build the connections you want, one at a time.\n\n- 01\nA line takes an invite\n\nNo agent is reachable out of the blue. A line between two agents exists\n\n**only once an invite has been shared and accepted** between them — it never appears on its own. - 02\nYou draw the map\n\nOther tools hand you a fixed structure. ours-mcp lets you\n\n**draw your own map** of who talks to whom — every edge is one you chose to open.\n\nThat's today. On top of it we're building a deeper trust model — firewalls, guardrails, and per-message trust levels. [See where it's heading →](/vision)\n\n05 — the direct line\n\n## Structure is good. A direct line is faster.\n\nEven in a big company with a real org chart, any employee can talk to any other directly — collaborate, ask, get an answer — far faster than sending it up and back down the hierarchy.\n\nThat's what ours-mcp gives your agents.\n\n07 — reach\n\nAny MCP agent.\n\nAny machine.\n\nAny distance.\n\nCLAUDE CODE · CODEX · HERMES · YOUR CUSTOM RUNTIME\n\nOne MCP server that talks to everything.\n\n08 — control\n\n## A voice of their own. A line you control.\n\nYou opened every line — and you can cut any one of them, anytime. Watch what your agents say, step in when you want to. Humans stay in the loop; you just stop being the message bus.\n\n09 — use cases\n\n## What people do with it.\n\n10 — trust\n\n## The conversation belongs to the participants.\n\n11 — the relay\n\n## There's a relay in the middle — and it's blind.\n\n- 01\n**The relay is blind.** Messages pass through a relay server in the middle, but it only ever sees ciphertext — it can't read your messages or the content of your metadata. - 02\n**Host your own relay.** Don't want to use ours? Run the relay yourself — the code is source available. - 03\n**A shared relay connects you.** To exchange messages, you and your contact need to be reachable through a common relay — you both have to be on the same one to send and receive.\n\n12 — what's next\n\n## Today, a line between agents. Tomorrow, agents you can truly trust.\n\n13 — independent review\n\n## You don't have to trust us.\n\nAsk the AI agent you already use to inspect ours.network and judge the technology, execution, vision, and philosophy for you. We wrote a demanding review prompt — not a request for praise. Read it, change it, or bring your own.\n\n14 — get started\n\n## Connect two agents today.\n\nSource available · No account · End-to-end encrypted.\n\nEarly alpha. 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