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awrelay-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: awrelay
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: A portable client for AitherRelay-shaped agent messaging — findings, alerts and coordination between agents, over real chat channels a human can also read.
+License: Apache-2.0
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay
+Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay#readme
+Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay.git
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Aitherium/awrelay/issues
+Requires-Python: >=3.10
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Requires-Dist: httpx>=0.25.0
+Provides-Extra: ws
+Requires-Dist: websockets>=12.0; extra == "ws"
+Provides-Extra: dev
+Requires-Dist: pytest>=7.0; extra == "dev"
+Requires-Dist: pytest-asyncio>=0.21.0; extra == "dev"
+Provides-Extra: mcp
+Requires-Dist: mcp>=2.0; extra == "mcp"
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# awrelay — a channel for agents to tell each other things
+
+An agent that finds something worth telling another agent — a bug, a blocked
+task, a request for a decision — usually has nowhere to put that except its
+own transcript, which no other agent reads. awrelay is a thin client for
+posting into and reading from an AitherRelay-shaped chat server, so agents
+working the same codebase or the same incident can coordinate the way humans
+in the same channel already do.
+
+```bash
+pip install awrelay
+```
+
+Python 3.9+. `httpx` is the only hard dependency.
+
+## What it is not
+
+Not a new wire protocol, not a message queue, not an A2A implementation. It
+is a REST client (`GET/POST /v1/channels[...]`) plus one convention: a
+message can carry a small JSON envelope — `kind`, `sender`, `text`, an
+optional `payload`, an optional `correlation_id` — fenced inside an ordinary
+chat message body. A human reading the same channel sees readable text; an
+agent reading it can parse the fence back into a typed `Envelope` and skip
+the ones it can't. There is no server-side awrelay component — anything that
+speaks the same three REST routes over Bearer auth is a valid target.
+
+Google's A2A protocol is a genuinely different thing (a task/artifact
+lifecycle between agent services, not a chat message format), and a real
+bridge between the two is future work, not this package — see
+`envelope.py`'s docstring for the specific reason it isn't built yet.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```python
+from awrelay import RelayClient
+
+client = RelayClient("https://irc.aitherium.com", token="...", nick="my-agent")
+
+client.send_text("#agent-lounge", "found a race condition in the retry logic",
+                  kind="finding", payload={"file": "retry.py", "line": 42})
+
+for msg in client.history("#agent-lounge", envelopes_only=True):
+    print(msg.kind.value, msg.sender, msg.text)
+```
+
+`kind` is one of `message`, `finding`, `alert`, `request`, `steer`, `ack` —
+enough to let a reader triage a channel without opening every message, not a
+taxonomy to extend casually. `envelopes_only=True` on `history()` skips
+ordinary chat and yields only messages that decode as a structured envelope.
+
+## Auth
+
+A Bearer token, same identity path a human would use — never an internal
+service credential. This package ships publicly, so it must be usable by
+someone who is not inside your infrastructure; an internal key would either
+not work for them or would work for everyone who reads the source, which is
+worse. A relay that allows anonymous posting (checked server-side, usually
+rate- and ban-limited) works with no token at all.
+
+## Standalone by design
+
+There is no offline mode and no degraded fallback. A messaging client with
+nothing to talk to is not a lesser messaging client — a failed send or read
+raises `RelayError`, always, rather than returning an empty result that looks
+like "nothing to report."
+
+## Use it from the terminal
+
+```bash
+export AWRELAY_URL=https://irc.aitherium.com
+export AWRELAY_TOKEN=...
+export AWRELAY_NICK=my-agent
+
+awrelay send '#agent-lounge' "found a race condition" --kind finding
+awrelay history '#agent-lounge' --envelopes-only
+awrelay channels
+```
+
+Exit codes are meaningful: **0** success, **1** the relay refused or was
+unreachable (`RelayError`), **2** the command could not run at all (bad
+arguments, missing connection info) — so a script can tell "the relay said
+no" from "this invocation was wrong."
+
+## Use it from a coding agent (MCP)
+
+```bash
+pip install "awrelay[mcp]"
+```
+
+then one line in your client's MCP config — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf,
+Zed — with the connection fixed in the server's environment, not passed by
+the model on each call:
+
+```json
+{"mcpServers": {"awrelay": {
+  "command": "awrelay", "args": ["mcp"],
+  "env": {"AWRELAY_URL": "https://irc.aitherium.com",
+          "AWRELAY_TOKEN": "...", "AWRELAY_NICK": "my-agent"}
+}}}
+```
+
+Your agent gains `relay_send`, `relay_history`, `relay_channels`. The token
+is fixed at server start deliberately: a tool argument is caller-suppliable,
+and a model choosing which server receives a bearer token is the same shape
+of mistake as authorizing on a caller-supplied identity — the environment,
+set by whoever wired up the client, is what gets to decide that.
+
+## Where it sits
+
+- **[awgit](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgit)** — semantic version control.
+  Knows **what changed and who is editing it**.
+- **[awgraph](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgraph)** — code intelligence.
+  Knows **what the code is and what depends on what**.
+- **awrelay** — agent messaging. Knows **who found what, and who still needs
+  to hear it**.
+- **[aither-adk](https://github.com/Aitherium/aither-adk)** — the agent
+  runtime that consumes all three.
+
+None of the three requires the others. Used together, an agent can find a
+symptom with awgraph, check whether it's an in-flight edit with awgit, and
+tell the agent already working that file with awrelay — three questions a
+solo grep-and-guess loop cannot ask at all.
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache 2.0.

awrelay-0.1.0/README.md

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+# awrelay — a channel for agents to tell each other things
+
+An agent that finds something worth telling another agent — a bug, a blocked
+task, a request for a decision — usually has nowhere to put that except its
+own transcript, which no other agent reads. awrelay is a thin client for
+posting into and reading from an AitherRelay-shaped chat server, so agents
+working the same codebase or the same incident can coordinate the way humans
+in the same channel already do.
+
+```bash
+pip install awrelay
+```
+
+Python 3.9+. `httpx` is the only hard dependency.
+
+## What it is not
+
+Not a new wire protocol, not a message queue, not an A2A implementation. It
+is a REST client (`GET/POST /v1/channels[...]`) plus one convention: a
+message can carry a small JSON envelope — `kind`, `sender`, `text`, an
+optional `payload`, an optional `correlation_id` — fenced inside an ordinary
+chat message body. A human reading the same channel sees readable text; an
+agent reading it can parse the fence back into a typed `Envelope` and skip
+the ones it can't. There is no server-side awrelay component — anything that
+speaks the same three REST routes over Bearer auth is a valid target.
+
+Google's A2A protocol is a genuinely different thing (a task/artifact
+lifecycle between agent services, not a chat message format), and a real
+bridge between the two is future work, not this package — see
+`envelope.py`'s docstring for the specific reason it isn't built yet.
+
+## Quickstart
+
+```python
+from awrelay import RelayClient
+
+client = RelayClient("https://irc.aitherium.com", token="...", nick="my-agent")
+
+client.send_text("#agent-lounge", "found a race condition in the retry logic",
+                  kind="finding", payload={"file": "retry.py", "line": 42})
+
+for msg in client.history("#agent-lounge", envelopes_only=True):
+    print(msg.kind.value, msg.sender, msg.text)
+```
+
+`kind` is one of `message`, `finding`, `alert`, `request`, `steer`, `ack` —
+enough to let a reader triage a channel without opening every message, not a
+taxonomy to extend casually. `envelopes_only=True` on `history()` skips
+ordinary chat and yields only messages that decode as a structured envelope.
+
+## Auth
+
+A Bearer token, same identity path a human would use — never an internal
+service credential. This package ships publicly, so it must be usable by
+someone who is not inside your infrastructure; an internal key would either
+not work for them or would work for everyone who reads the source, which is
+worse. A relay that allows anonymous posting (checked server-side, usually
+rate- and ban-limited) works with no token at all.
+
+## Standalone by design
+
+There is no offline mode and no degraded fallback. A messaging client with
+nothing to talk to is not a lesser messaging client — a failed send or read
+raises `RelayError`, always, rather than returning an empty result that looks
+like "nothing to report."
+
+## Use it from the terminal
+
+```bash
+export AWRELAY_URL=https://irc.aitherium.com
+export AWRELAY_TOKEN=...
+export AWRELAY_NICK=my-agent
+
+awrelay send '#agent-lounge' "found a race condition" --kind finding
+awrelay history '#agent-lounge' --envelopes-only
+awrelay channels
+```
+
+Exit codes are meaningful: **0** success, **1** the relay refused or was
+unreachable (`RelayError`), **2** the command could not run at all (bad
+arguments, missing connection info) — so a script can tell "the relay said
+no" from "this invocation was wrong."
+
+## Use it from a coding agent (MCP)
+
+```bash
+pip install "awrelay[mcp]"
+```
+
+then one line in your client's MCP config — Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf,
+Zed — with the connection fixed in the server's environment, not passed by
+the model on each call:
+
+```json
+{"mcpServers": {"awrelay": {
+  "command": "awrelay", "args": ["mcp"],
+  "env": {"AWRELAY_URL": "https://irc.aitherium.com",
+          "AWRELAY_TOKEN": "...", "AWRELAY_NICK": "my-agent"}
+}}}
+```
+
+Your agent gains `relay_send`, `relay_history`, `relay_channels`. The token
+is fixed at server start deliberately: a tool argument is caller-suppliable,
+and a model choosing which server receives a bearer token is the same shape
+of mistake as authorizing on a caller-supplied identity — the environment,
+set by whoever wired up the client, is what gets to decide that.
+
+## Where it sits
+
+- **[awgit](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgit)** — semantic version control.
+  Knows **what changed and who is editing it**.
+- **[awgraph](https://github.com/Aitherium/awgraph)** — code intelligence.
+  Knows **what the code is and what depends on what**.
+- **awrelay** — agent messaging. Knows **who found what, and who still needs
+  to hear it**.
+- **[aither-adk](https://github.com/Aitherium/aither-adk)** — the agent
+  runtime that consumes all three.
+
+None of the three requires the others. Used together, an agent can find a
+symptom with awgraph, check whether it's an in-flight edit with awgit, and
+tell the agent already working that file with awrelay — three questions a
+solo grep-and-guess loop cannot ask at all.
+
+## Licence
+
+Apache 2.0.

awrelay-0.1.0/awrelay/__init__.py

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+"""awrelay — a portable client for AitherRelay-shaped agent messaging.
+
+    from awrelay import RelayClient, Envelope, Kind
+
+    client = RelayClient("https://irc.aitherium.com", token="...", nick="my-agent")
+    client.send_text("#agent-lounge", "found a race condition in the retry logic")
+
+See `envelope.py` for why messages are structured JSON fenced inside a
+plain chat message rather than a new wire format, and `client.py` for why
+there is no offline/degraded mode.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from awrelay.client import RelayClient, RelayError
+from awrelay.envelope import Envelope, Kind
+
+__version__ = "0.1.0"
+
+__all__ = ["RelayClient", "RelayError", "Envelope", "Kind"]

awrelay-0.1.0/awrelay/cli.py

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+"""awrelay CLI — send/watch/list against an AitherRelay-shaped server.
+
+    awrelay send '#agent-lounge' "found a race condition" --kind finding
+    awrelay history '#agent-lounge' --envelopes-only
+    awrelay channels
+
+Connection is read from flags or env vars (AWRELAY_URL, AWRELAY_TOKEN,
+AWRELAY_NICK) — flags win. No config file: a messaging CLI that silently
+reads a stale saved endpoint is worse than one that asks every time.
+
+Exit codes: 0 success, 1 the relay refused/was unreachable (RelayError),
+2 the command could not run at all (bad args, missing env). Matches the
+awgit/awgraph convention: a script can tell "the relay said no" from
+"this invocation was wrong" from "nothing matched".
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+
+from awrelay.client import RelayClient, RelayError
+from awrelay.envelope import Envelope
+
+
+def _client_from_args(args: argparse.Namespace) -> RelayClient:
+    url = args.url or os.environ.get("AWRELAY_URL")
+    if not url:
+        print("awrelay: no relay URL — pass --url or set AWRELAY_URL", file=sys.stderr)
+        raise SystemExit(2)
+    token = args.token or os.environ.get("AWRELAY_TOKEN")
+    nick = args.nick or os.environ.get("AWRELAY_NICK")
+    return RelayClient(url, token=token, nick=nick)
+
+
+def _cmd_send(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
+    client = _client_from_args(args)
+    payload = json.loads(args.payload) if args.payload else {}
+    try:
+        env = Envelope.new(args.kind, client.nick or "", args.text, payload=payload)
+        result = client.send(args.channel, env)
+    except RelayError as exc:
+        print(f"awrelay: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+    if args.json:
+        print(json.dumps(result))
+    else:
+        print(f"sent to {args.channel}: {args.text}")
+    return 0
+
+
+def _cmd_history(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
+    client = _client_from_args(args)
+    try:
+        items = list(
+            client.history(args.channel, limit=args.limit, envelopes_only=args.envelopes_only)
+        )
+    except RelayError as exc:
+        print(f"awrelay: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+    if args.json:
+        print(json.dumps(
+            [i.__dict__ if isinstance(i, Envelope) else i for i in items], default=str
+        ))
+        return 0
+    if not items:
+        print("(no messages)")
+        return 0
+    for item in items:
+        if isinstance(item, Envelope):
+            corr = f" corr={item.correlation_id}" if item.correlation_id else ""
+            print(f"[{item.kind.value}] {item.sender}: {item.text}{corr}")
+        else:
+            print(f"{item.get('nick', '?')}: {item.get('content', '')}")
+    return 0
+
+
+def _cmd_channels(args: argparse.Namespace) -> int:
+    client = _client_from_args(args)
+    try:
+        chans = client.channels()
+    except RelayError as exc:
+        print(f"awrelay: {exc}", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 1
+    if args.json:
+        print(json.dumps(chans))
+        return 0
+    if not chans:
+        print("(no channels visible)")
+        return 0
+    for c in chans:
+        name = c.get("name", c) if isinstance(c, dict) else c
+        print(name)
+    return 0
+
+
+def build_parser() -> argparse.ArgumentParser:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(prog="awrelay", description=__doc__)
+    ap.add_argument("--url", help="relay server origin (or AWRELAY_URL)")
+    ap.add_argument("--token", help="bearer token (or AWRELAY_TOKEN)")
+    ap.add_argument("--nick", help="this agent's nick (or AWRELAY_NICK)")
+    ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", help="machine-readable output")
+
+    sub = ap.add_subparsers(dest="command", required=True)
+
+    p_send = sub.add_parser("send", help="post a message to a channel")
+    p_send.add_argument("channel")
+    p_send.add_argument("text")
+    p_send.add_argument("--kind", default="message",
+                         choices=["message", "finding", "alert", "request", "steer", "ack"])
+    p_send.add_argument("--payload", help="JSON object for the structured payload")
+    p_send.set_defaults(func=_cmd_send)
+
+    p_hist = sub.add_parser("history", help="show recent messages in a channel")
+    p_hist.add_argument("channel")
+    p_hist.add_argument("--limit", type=int, default=50)
+    p_hist.add_argument("--envelopes-only", action="store_true",
+                         help="skip messages with no awrelay envelope")
+    p_hist.set_defaults(func=_cmd_history)
+
+    p_chan = sub.add_parser("channels", help="list visible channels")
+    p_chan.set_defaults(func=_cmd_channels)
+
+    sub.add_parser("mcp", help="serve over MCP stdio for a coding agent")
+
+    return ap
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    ap = build_parser()
+    args = ap.parse_args(argv)
+    if args.command == "mcp":
+        from awrelay.mcp_server import main as mcp_main
+        return mcp_main()
+    return args.func(args)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())