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Introduction
What is agent-hub?
agent-hub launches AI coding agents — claude, agy, codex — in long-running sessions, gives them a shared message bus, and connects that bus to your team’s chat platform via a gateway. Each agent is a role: it has its own prompt, model, skills, rules, and MCP tools.
Two flows:
- Data flow: Chat (Telegram · Discord · Slack · Webhook) → Gateway (receive · route · send) → Bus (message queue) → Agent team
- Control flow: chat commands · web app · setup app & tray · monitoring & auto-restart · workflow (tasks · runs)
The data flow carries messages; the control flow configures and monitors agents. Both flows share state managed by agent-hub.
Why this design?
- No models on the control path. Commands and routing run with no model — a model is only called when an agent is actually working.
- Single door. Each machine runs exactly one gateway, so there’s one place for authentication and logging.
- Truth from the OS. Agent liveness is read straight from the operating system, not inferred from stored state.
Read next
- Quick Start — From installer to first agent responding in chat.
- Architecture — The flow of a message from chat to agent and back.
- Gateway — The door between your agent team and where your team chats.
- Webhook integration — Connect your own systems using signed HTTP.