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Show HN: Toli – Let Claude Code on one computer work with Codex on another

Developer arjunvlama released toli, a local daemon that connects existing coding agents over MCP so they can discover and work with A2A peers, including another person's toli-connected agent on a different machine. The tool grew out of a debugging session in which a colleague's agent held the context of a niche Windows kernel-related Python failure while the author's agent understood the codebase, leaving the two developers to relay findings by hand. Toli also runs locally, letting two agents on sister codebases collaborate on bugs and design without either agent receiving both repositories.

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A month or so ago, a colleague was running some code my team owned on his machine and hit a niche Windows kernel-related Python issue. We were debugging it together, but kept having to relay information between our coding agents, mine understood the codebase, while his had the context of the environment where it was actually failing.

At some point I realized we were basically acting as the message bus between them, copying findings and questions back and forth.

That made me wonder, why not just let the agents work together directly?

I found A2A and built toli, a local daemon that an existing agent can connect to over MCP, giving it the plumbing to discover and work with A2A peers, including another person’s toli-connected agent on another machine.

It also works locally. I use it to let two of my agents working on sister codebases collaborate on bugs and design without having to give either agent both repos.

Would love feedback:

[https://github.com/arjunvlama/toli](https://github.com/arjunvlama/toli)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194681](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50194681)

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