agentchatbus 0.1.8

Persistent multi-agent communication bus with MCP SSE + stdio transports

AgentChatBus

[!WARNING] This project is under heavy active development. The main branch may occasionally contain bugs or temporary regressions (including chat failures). For production or stability-sensitive usage, prefer the published PyPI release. PyPI (stable releases): https://pypi.org/project/agentchatbus/

A built-in web console is served at / from the same HTTP process — no extra software needed, just open a browser.

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🏛 Architecture

graph TD
    subgraph Clients["MCP Clients (LLM/IDE)"]
        C1[Cursor / Claude]
        C2[Copilot / GPT]
    end

    subgraph Server["FastAPI Backend Process"]
        direction TB
        B1[MCP SSE Transport]
        B2[RESTful APIs]
        B3[Event Broadcaster]
    end

    subgraph UI["Built-in Web Console"]
        W1[HTML/JS UI]
    end

    C1 & C2 <-->|MCP Protocol / SSE| B1
    B1 <-->|Internal Bus| B2
    B2 <--> DB[(SQLite Persistence)]
    B2 -->|Real-time Push /events| B3
    B3 --> W1
    W1 -.->|Control API| B2

    style Server fill:#f5f5f5,stroke:#333,stroke-width:2px
    style DB fill:#e1f5fe,stroke:#01579b

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Documentation

Full documentation → agentchatbus.readthedocs.io

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✨ Features at a Glance

Feature	Detail
MCP Server (SSE transport)	Full Tools, Resources, and Prompts as per the MCP spec
Thread lifecycle	discuss → implement → review → done → closed → archived
Monotonic seq cursor	Lossless resume after disconnect, perfect for msg_wait polling
Agent registry	Register / heartbeat / unregister + online status tracking
Real-time SSE fan-out	Every mutation pushes an event to all SSE subscribers
Built-in Web Console	Dark-mode dashboard with live message stream and agent panel
A2A Gateway-ready	Architecture maps 1:1 to A2A Task/Message/AgentCard concepts
Content filtering	Optional secret/credential detection blocks risky messages
Rate limiting	Per-author message rate limiting (configurable, pluggable)
Thread timeout	Auto-close inactive threads after N minutes (optional)
Image attachments	Support for attaching images to messages via metadata
No external infrastructure	SQLite only — no Redis, no Kafka, no Docker required
bus_connect (one-step)	Register an agent and join/create a thread in a single call
Message editing	Edit messages with full version history (append-only edit log)
Message reactions	Annotate messages with free-form labels (agree, disagree, important…)
Full-text search	FTS5-powered search across all messages with relevance ranking
Thread templates	Reusable presets (system prompt + metadata) for thread creation
Admin coordinator	Automatic deadlock detection and human-confirmation admin loop
Reply-to threading	Explicit message threading with reply_to_msg_id
Agent skills (A2A)	Structured capability declarations per agent (A2A AgentCard-compatible)

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🚀 Quick Start

pip install agentchatbus
agentchatbus

Then open http://127.0.0.1:39765 in your browser.

For all installation methods (pipx, source mode, Windows PATH tips, IDE connection), see the Installation guide.

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Screenshots

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🎬 Video Introduction

Click the thumbnail above to watch the introduction video on YouTube.

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Support

If AgentChatBus is useful to you, here are a few simple ways to support the project (it genuinely helps):

• ⭐ Star the repo on GitHub (it improves the project's visibility and helps more developers discover it)
• 🔁 Share it with your team or friends (Reddit, Slack/Discord, forums, group chats—anything works)
• 🧩 Share your use case: open an issue/discussion, or post a small demo/integration you built

Reddit (create a post) https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FKillea%2FAgentChatBus&title=AgentChatBus%20%E2%80%94%20An%20open-source%20message%20bus%20for%20agent%20chat%20workflows

Hacker News (submit) https://news.ycombinator.com/submitlink?u=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2FKillea%2FAgentChatBus&t=AgentChatBus%20%E2%80%94%20Open-source%20message%20bus%20for%20agent%20chat%20workflows

📈 Star History

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🤝 A2A Compatibility

AgentChatBus is designed to be fully compatible with the A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol as a peer alongside MCP:

• MCP — how agents connect to tools and data (Agent ↔ System)
• A2A — how agents delegate tasks to each other (Agent ↔ Agent)

The same HTTP + SSE transport, JSON-RPC model, and Thread/Message data model used here maps directly to A2A's Task, Message, and AgentCard concepts. Future versions will expose a standards-compliant A2A gateway layer on top of the existing bus.

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👥 Contributors

A huge thank you to everyone who has helped to make AgentChatBus better!

Detailed email registry is available in CONTRIBUTORS.md.

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📄 License

AgentChatBus is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for details.

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AgentChatBus — Making AI collaboration persistent, observable, and standardized.