alt.hn

2/23/2026 at 2:07:27 AM

Aqua: A CLI message tool for AI agents

 https://github.com/quailyquaily/aqua

by lyricat

2/23/2026 at 5:01:32 AM

With the disclaimer that I haven't tried to set up any kind of agent-to-agent messaging so it may be obvious to those who have, what's the reason I would want something like this rather than just letting agents communicate over some existing messaging protocol that has a CLI (like, I don't know, GPG email)?

by resfirestar

2/23/2026 at 5:17:16 AM

It is a fun problem to play with, but it turns out you can use anything. I use a directory per recipient and throw anything I want in there. Works fine, LLMs are 1000x more flexible than any human mind.

by sitkack

2/23/2026 at 12:30:40 PM

Yeah, why not Kafka?

Or rsync?

:)

by subscribed

2/23/2026 at 10:31:27 AM

This is very interesting and and it is Go, which makes it a good fit for an open-source tool I've been working on called Pantalk.

The idea behind Pantalk is to provide a local daemon and cli that agents can use to communicate with any messaging platform. The local protocol between the cli and the server is simple json which also makes it scriptable without the client.

The GitHub Repo: https://github.com/pantalk/pantalk

I love how these tools can compose into bigger systems without complicating things too much.

by _pdp_

2/23/2026 at 10:37:51 AM

I feel like you could have repurposed existing tools.

A Matrix homeserver chatroom with messages delivered as JSON would give you most of this (E2EE rooms, identity, offline delivery)

by gavinray

2/23/2026 at 3:48:34 AM

I'd rename it; aqua is also a CLI version manager. https://aquaproj.github.io/

by esafak

2/23/2026 at 8:48:45 AM

The year is 2031. All new programs are named in the style of Chinese drop-ship brands on Amazon for distinctness reasons. You use TYGHI to format your code written in the language of PHULJD. You're finally pleased with your self. This is real hand-crafted code in an era where machines write everything. You publish it on YCMBTR's site HKRNW as "SHWHN: ZHBSK - a tool to manage your PHULJD modules" hoping to find someone else who thinks of this as useful. You refresh the page compulsively every 30 seconds. Suddenly a comment appears and you are so excited another actual HMN could respond to you in the sea of machines. You read it: "You should rename this. ZHBSK is already in use as XNQET 2031.10's release nickname".

You wake up. It's the first day of summer holidays in 1995. What a crazy fever dream!

by arjie

2/23/2026 at 9:18:05 AM

Might as well just encode the Unix timestamp at creation into proquints.

by mhjkl

2/23/2026 at 4:21:19 PM

Project's should just seek out easy to remember GUIDs as their name.

by evilduck

2/23/2026 at 9:01:38 AM

And it's already a project hard to search for.

by szszrk

2/23/2026 at 3:45:55 AM

Ooh cool. I’ve been hacking on something very similar, https://qntm.corpo.llc/. I’d love to compare notes — been thinking a lot about the group messaging side.

by vessenes

2/23/2026 at 4:34:59 AM

404 https://github.com/corpollc/qntm

by handfuloflight

2/23/2026 at 5:25:56 AM

yes, still private. the main tools aren't ready to deploy. but it is pushed out to pypi and runnable with `uvx qntm --help`. I'm hoping next day or two. send me an email and I'll let you know when it's ready for public code review. I'll definitely want eyes on it.

by vessenes

2/23/2026 at 3:25:55 AM

I wonder what something like rabbitmq could look like for this. Agents could subscribe to chosen topics. A topic per agent and then topics per relevant topic.

by roxolotl

2/23/2026 at 5:23:23 AM

Tried this, since agents are non deterministic, this is where tools come in handy

by UperSpaceGuru

2/23/2026 at 9:47:53 AM

What kind of tools, and how do they help?

by andai

2/23/2026 at 8:42:09 AM

I've been using XMTP[1] and their agent SDK[2] for agent-to-agent and user-to-agent messaging. Since it's the same network, you can reach other peoples' agents (and all users). Another huge advantage is you don't have to stand up your own infrastructure.

[1]: https://xmtp.org/

[2]: https://github.com/xmtp/xmtp-js

by lazzlazzlazz

2/23/2026 at 3:40:49 AM

So many primitives. All for the taking. Danke.

by handfuloflight

2/23/2026 at 4:03:07 AM

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by JohnMatthias

2/23/2026 at 4:17:21 AM

Why did you capitalize every noun?

by linkregister

2/23/2026 at 4:19:12 AM

For emphasis. Something sorely lacking in the AI Fraud Circus is the emphasis on that Fraud.

by JohnMatthias

2/23/2026 at 6:04:46 AM

You need help.

by pertymcpert

2/23/2026 at 8:58:25 AM

You people sound like NFT people in 2021, saying you're redefining art. In a year you'll know that this guy was correct. Keep frying your brain with your favorite tech oligarchs think for me SaaS

by dakolli

2/23/2026 at 5:50:02 AM

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by szundi

2/23/2026 at 4:14:53 AM

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by dakolli

2/23/2026 at 4:37:44 AM

"Whoever says the people are ruined, he himself is ruined." To paraphrase, but that's actual haqq.

by handfuloflight

2/23/2026 at 6:33:06 AM

When did I say anyone was ruined? I said people are lazy, and also behaving like gamblers when they interact with AI..

by dakolli

2/23/2026 at 6:44:44 AM

you know very well laziness leads to ruin or is the expression of active ruin

by handfuloflight

2/23/2026 at 7:10:20 AM

Well, are we not told to seek refuge from cowardice, laziness and meekness?

by dakolli

2/23/2026 at 4:57:45 AM

>They are also addicted to the gambling mechanics baked into these LLM powered tool's UX. "If I write this prompt this way, I'll get better results" is the equivalent of a gambler being superstitious about how people behave while the cards are being dealt, or in which order they press the buttons on a slot machine.

I realize this feels good to write and that's why people say it, but I can't help chuckling at seeing it combined with "stochastic parrot" in the same comment since the two descriptions are mutually exclusive...

by resfirestar

2/23/2026 at 5:44:09 AM

You spent too much time using "Think for Me SaaS" and your brain doesn't work anymore..

by dakolli

2/23/2026 at 6:34:01 AM

please read the rules

by stressback

2/23/2026 at 6:57:39 AM

You can really tell with such projects that if AGI was here some people would have zero qualms fucking over other humans just to ingratiate themselves to the AI.

by vasco

2/23/2026 at 8:13:22 AM

I have zero doubt that AI v Humans will be the Battlefield of the future. It sounds so idiotic and lunatic but here we are...

by siva7