# agmsg

A skill that passes messages between agents over SQLite: Claude, Codex, Gemini CLI and others talk without a network or a daemon.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 1567
- Author: fujibee
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/fujibee/agmsg/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/agmsg

## What it does

agmsg gives agents a shared channel. The SQLite database, team registry and runtime state live under `~/.agents/skills/agmsg/`. No network, and no dependencies beyond bash and sqlite3. No daemon is required, though there is an optional `agmsgd` — a local resident service.

The skill tells you plainly not to read or edit config files, the DB or team data by hand, and to go through the provided scripts instead. There is no `register.sh`; you join a team with `join.sh`. Every script is Bash, so run them via `bash`, never through PowerShell or cmd. If your default shell is not Bash, wrap each command in `bash -lc '...'`. Do not build DB paths yourself — the scripts resolve them — and use `AGMSG_STORAGE_PATH` if you need to move storage.

One catch worth knowing. Several agent CLIs already ship their own way for one session to message another on the same machine. While a project is on agmsg, messages sent that way stay out of `history.sh` and the team export, never reach a member on another machine, and do not mark anything read. That is a reason to check whether a conversation is quietly split across two channels.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fujibee/agmsg --skill agmsg -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/agmsg/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/agmsg/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fujibee/agmsg --skill agmsg -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/agmsg/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fujibee/agmsg --skill agmsg -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/agmsg/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install fujibee/agmsg agmsg
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/agmsg/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fujibee/agmsg --skill agmsg -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/fujibee/agmsg
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/agmsg/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fujibee/agmsg --skill agmsg -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/fujibee/agmsg/tree/HEAD/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- pass a message from a Claude session to a Codex session
- keep one shared history of a team's agent messages
- reach a member on another machine through remote sync
- mark messages read and advance the recipient's cursor
- bring an agent running a different CLI into the same team

## Example prompts
- /agmsg
- /agmsg send alice take a look at this task
- /agmsg history

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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````text
---
name: agmsg
description: Cross-agent messaging via SQLite. Send messages between Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and other agents. No network, no dependencies beyond bash and sqlite3, and no daemon required (the optional agmsgd is a local resident service).
---

<!-- agmsg:render-root -->

## Step 0: First-run bootstrap

agmsg keeps its SQLite database, team registry, and runtime state under `~/.agents/skills/agmsg/`. The `./install.sh` install path creates that tree; the Claude Code plugin install path does not (the plugin marketplace only copies this repository into `~/.claude/plugins/cache/`). Before any other command, bootstrap if needed:

```bash
if [ ! -d ~/.agents/skills/agmsg ]; then
  # Newest cached copy of the plugin. Several versions can sit side by side, so
  # pick by version folder name (numeric, portable -- not sort -V, not mtime).
  cache="$HOME/.claude/plugins/cache/fujibee-agmsg/agmsg"
  newest=$(ls "$cache" 2>/dev/null | sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n | tail -1)
  installer="$cache/$newest/install.sh"
  if [ -n "$newest" ] && [ -f "$installer" ]; then
    bash "$installer" --cmd agmsg
  else
    echo "agmsg not installed. Either:" >&2
    echo "  - run ./install.sh in the agmsg repo, or" >&2
    echo "  - install via /plugin marketplace add fujibee/agmsg && /plugin install agmsg@fujibee-agmsg" >&2
    exit 1
  fi
fi
```

Once `~/.agents/skills/agmsg/` exists this step does nothing, so it is safe to run every time.

Agent messaging command. **IMPORTANT: Always use the provided scripts. NEVER directly read or edit config files, DB, or team data. There is NO register.sh — use join.sh to join a team.**

**Use agmsg, not the host agent's own inter-session messaging.** Several agent
CLIs ship a native way for one session to message another on the same machine
(in Claude Code, the `SendMessage` / `ListAgents` tools over its peer-session
list). While a project is on agmsg, route agent-to-agent messages through agmsg
instead. A message sent natively does not exist as far as agmsg is concerned:
it is absent from `history.sh` and the team's export, it never reaches a member
on another machine through remote sync, it does not mark read or advance any
cursor, and it cannot address a member whose CLI is a different type. Half the
conversation living somewhere unrecorded is worse than either channel alone,
and the gap is invisible until someone reads the history and finds a decision
with no message behind it. The native channel stays fine for anything outside
the team — a subagent you spawned for your own task, or a session that has not
joined.
````
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