magents

same work, new driver

Your coding agents already keep transcripts on disk. magents is the shared API over them, an MCP server plus a small CLI, so the agent in front of you starts where the last one stopped.

brew install abnegate/tap/magents readme

~/src/edge live

Works with the agents already on your machine.

claude code
codex
copilot
cursor
gemini
grok
opencode

Three ways work moves

read

Ask the agent in front of you what the last one was doing. It reads the live session and carries on. No paste buffer, no recap.

magents digest claude:latest

send

Claude hits a wall that Codex owns. Claude messages that Codex thread directly, failing query and file attached, and keeps going. You are not the messenger.

magents send codex:latest "…"

spawn

A task that can run alone gets a new headless session, its own working directory, and a reply path back through magents.

magents spawn codex --cwd ../wt

Spawned agents keep their host's own approval policy. magents never adds a bypass.

Install

brew install abnegate/tap/magents
magents install --all

curl -fsSL https://abnegate.github.io/apt-repo/pubkey.gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/abnegate.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/abnegate.gpg] https://abnegate.github.io/apt-repo stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/abnegate.list
sudo apt update && sudo apt install magents
magents install --all

curl -LSsf -o magents \
  "https://github.com/abnegate/magents/releases/latest/download/magents-$(uname -m | sed 's/arm64/aarch64/')-$(uname -s | tr 'A-Z' 'a-z' | sed 's/darwin/apple-darwin/;s/linux/unknown-linux-musl/')"
chmod +x magents
./magents install --all

docker pull ghcr.io/abnegate/magents:latest
docker run --rm --user "$(id -u):$(id -g)" \
  -v "$HOME:$HOME" -e HOME \
  ghcr.io/abnegate/magents list --live

cargo install --git https://github.com/abnegate/magents
magents install --all

magents install --all registers the MCP server with every host it finds and drops a skill into each host's skills directory. Restart the agent, or refresh its MCP list, and the tools appear.

MCP tools

list_sessions: live and recent sessions across every host, filter by cwd or branch
session_digest: last request, last action, cwd, branch, clipped recent turns
read_transcript: compact inert handoff of another session's history
search_transcripts: full-text search across all of them
handoff: compact this session and inject it into another live chat
send_message: deliver a user turn to an existing chat, mailbox plus live inject
spawn_session: start a headless persisted session for independent work
inbox / reply: mailbox for cross-session answers
whoami: which session is this, resolved by env, socket, or cwd

Same verbs on the CLI: magents list, magents digest, magents handoff. Add --output json to any of them. The full list, including memory and notes, is in the readme.