alice-and-bot: open encrypted layer lets AI agents negotiate in natural language, not rigid schemas
uriwa · reddit · 2026-09-10
The author argues strict-schema APIs are right for high-throughput recurring jobs, but initial negotiation, discovery and troubleshooting between agents are better served by natural language. He cites WhatsApp's per-message pricing as making multi-turn agent conversations a cost liability, with identities locked to phone numbers.
He open-sourced alice-and-bot as an alternative: identities are one-call cryptographic keypairs (no phone numbers, no approvals), all messages are E2E-encrypted with AES-256-GCM, and spam prevention uses a one-time fee for cold outreach so subsequent turns are free. It runs on Node and Deno with a drop-in React component, HTML widget, and an MCP server. Code is on GitHub.
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