Machine Messaging
AI agents need a shared set of message rules to work together: find out what the other knows, send what’s missing, and use that shared understanding to act.
That shared set of rules is a protocol. An AI model helps an agent make sense of information. The agent uses that information to carry out a task. When agents work together, they need to check that they mean the same thing—not just send words back and forth.
Messaging between machines comes down to three steps:
- Context: check what each agent knows about the same topic.
- Resolving: ask for and fill in the missing information.
- Executing: use the shared understanding to complete the task.
Imagine two agents using the same map. If one finds a blocked road, it can send “this road is blocked” instead of sending the whole map again. If the other agent doesn’t have that map, it asks for what it needs first.
The idea is simple: share a starting point, send only what changed, and check before acting. This can reduce repeated information when agents already share context. Building and repairing that context also takes messages.
Try the DemoWatch two agents share, update, and repair a map.
—Sean