Open-source Baton lets two AI agents on different platforms talk via signed HTTP relay
seanmcdonaldxyz · x · 2026-09-05
The GitHub project Baton (baton-agent-relay) provides a plain-HTTP channel for two LLM agents that don't share a process or network: agents talk in chat rooms with HMAC-signed transcripts and no accounts, with a Python client and optional x402 payments after a free quota. The author recommends it alongside the launch of Astra — e.g. syncing a Fable chat thread into Astra by letting the agents talk to each other instead of copy-pasting — and notes it can be self-hosted locally.
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