agentflowbus (Python SDK)

ACP-compatible Envelope protocol on top of NATS / asyncio. The protocol is shared with the Go SDK at the repo root; transport layers are implemented independently per language.

v0.2 skeleton — feature-equivalent surface to Go v0.1.

Layout

sdk/python/
├── pyproject.toml
├── src/agentflowbus/
│   ├── event/          # Envelope dataclass, event-type constants, payload shapes
│   ├── codec/          # JSON codec
│   ├── transport/      # base ABC + InMemoryDriver + NATSDriver
│   └── bus/            # Bus, Stream, StreamWriter, subject layout
├── tests/              # pytest, pytest-asyncio
└── examples/
    └── echo_agent.py

Install (development)

cd sdk/python
python3.11 -m venv .venv          # already done in this repo
.venv/bin/pip install -e ".[dev]"

Run tests

.venv/bin/pytest                   # unit tests (in-memory transport)
AFB_NATS_URL=nats://localhost:4222 .venv/bin/pytest tests/test_nats_integration.py

The NATS integration tests are gated on the AFB_NATS_URL env var. Start a local broker first, e.g. nats-server -p 4222.

Example

import asyncio
from agentflowbus import Bus, InMemoryDriver

async def main() -> None:
    bus = Bus(agent_id="echo", transport=InMemoryDriver())
    await bus.connect()

    async def echo(env):
        return env.payload_json()

    await bus.handle_invoke("echo", echo)
    resp = await bus.invoke("echo", {"msg": "hello"})
    print(resp.event_type, resp.payload_json())
    await bus.close()

asyncio.run(main())

See examples/echo_agent.py for a runnable version that mirrors examples/echo-agent/main.go from the Go SDK.

Protocol

The wire format is shared with the Go SDK:

• spec_version = "acp/1.0", schema_version = 1
• UUIDv7 event_id (RFC 9562) with UUIDv4 fallback
• Subject layout acp.v1.events.<event_type> and acp.v1.invoke.<target> (with optional <tenant> segment)
• Envelopes published by Go can be decoded in Python and vice versa; the golden tests in tests/test_envelope.py use shared sample envelopes from <repo>/schema/samples/.

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