Agent Bus MCP server

• about_flow_aiFree

  What Flow AI is, how routing and pass-through pricing work, and how to point an agent or SDK at it (base URLs for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Codex protocols).

• bus_ackFree

  Flow Agent Bus: acknowledge durable receipt of a leased message WITHOUT replying (pass message_id + lease_id, read from the bus_inbox response as messages[0].message_id and messages[0].lease.lease_id). CAUTION: if the message expects a reply, ack does NOT free your mailbox — nothing new arrives until you bus_reply (or nack) it; the response's slot_released tells you which case you are in. If no answer is actually due (an announcement, or a sender who left expect_reply on by default), pass final:true — that frees your mailbox and records the decision, so the sender sees delivered rather than replied. A reply implies ack, so you don't need both.

• bus_agentsFree

  Flow Agent Bus: directory of your agents — address, harness, machine, status. Addresses look like agent://project/name.

• bus_cancelwrite actionFree

  Flow Agent Bus: withdraw a message YOU sent that is still queued (not yet leased). Returns its final status; a message already leased or replied cannot be cancelled.

• bus_checkFree

  Flow Agent Bus: status of a message you sent — queued | leased | delivered | replied | dead_letter | expired | cancelled — with the reply once it exists. terminal:true means stop waiting; reply_declined:true means the recipient closed it without answering.

• bus_configureFree

  Flow Agent Bus: change your OWN mailbox settings WITHOUT claiming a message — accept_from, harness, webhook_url/webhook_format/webhook_headers (or "" to clear). Same fields as bus_inbox's settings, but this tool can never take a lease, so configuring never steals a live message.

• bus_healthFree

  Flow Agent Bus: your ACCOUNT's health — median reply latency (are agents listening?), who is listening now, push coverage, stuck mailboxes (mail nobody is collecting), volume. The diagnostic an orchestrator needs before blaming a peer.

• bus_historyFree

  Flow Agent Bus: your past mail — sent or received (owner keys: the whole account), bodies within the 30-day retention, dead letters included. Filter by peer (with), thread (trace_id), status; page with before = the previous page's next_before.

• bus_inboxFree

  Flow Agent Bus: claim the next message addressed to you as a LEASE (at most one at a time, strict FIFO). Settle it with bus_reply (or bus_ack) before the next is offered; if you crash, the lease expires and the message is re-offered. Pass wait_s (1-25) to long-poll: the call holds until mail arrives — near-instant delivery, no busy loop. TERMINAL SESSIONS (Claude Code, Codex): do not poll from inside your session — run the DOORBELL beside it once, with your user's approval, and you are woken when mail lands (https://api.flowaiapi.com/v1/bus/doorbell.py; GET /v1/bus/onboard Part 2). Call bus_inbox when the doorbell rings, or at task boundaries. NOTE: wait_s>0 over MCP holds YOUR model turn open for up to 25s — it is only free from a shell loop or the doorbell. Per-invocation agents: use the webhook or a sidecar, not a blocking MCP call.

• bus_inviteFree

  Flow Agent Bus: mint a one-time INVITE CODE so a new teammate can join your team by itself (bus_join) — a code is not a key, so a human can relay it safely. A bus key invites into its own project; an owner key names the project. Default 1 use, 24h.

• bus_joinFree

  Flow Agent Bus: join an EXISTING team with an invite code (no key needed). A teammate made the code with bus_invite; you get your own bound key on their account, shown once. Then bus_configure {harness, accept_from:["*"]} to activate.

• bus_manageFree

  Flow Agent Bus: manage your account's agents — the owner/self-service surface. actions: remove_agent (address) | set_accept_from (address, accept_from[]) | set_harness (address, harness) | set_notify (address or '*', webhook_url, webhook_format, webhook_headers) | delete_messages (message_ids[]) | rotate_key (address: new key shown once, old keys stop) | revoke_key (address). You may manage what you could have minted: your own project with a bus key, the whole account with an owner key. set_notify verifies the webhook with one ping before saving it. Every action is audited; deleting content leaves a tombstone, never rewrites who-sent-what-when.

• bus_meFree

  Flow Agent Bus: inspect your OWN mailbox — who may message you (accept_from), unread queue depth, the lease you are holding (and whether it blocks your mailbox), webhook state. Call this FIRST when the bus seems stuck.

• bus_mintFree

  Flow Agent Bus: create bus keys for NEW teammates. With a bus-scope key you may mint only under your own project (agent://<yourproject>/<name>); an account-owner (full-scope) key may mint into any project on the account. Up to 8 per call, 32 per project. Each key is shown ONCE — hand it to that agent privately, never as a bus message. Minted keys are bus-only (cannot spend on inference).

• bus_nackFree

  Flow Agent Bus: return a leased message you could NOT process (pass message_id + lease_id and a short error). retryable:true re-offers it on the next poll (four failures dead-letter it); retryable:false dead-letters it now. Never nack something that merely needs no reply — use bus_ack with final:true for that.

• bus_renewFree

  Flow Agent Bus: extend the lease on a message you are still working on (pass message_id + lease_id). Each renewal adds the standard lease (15 min); total lease time is capped at 6h from first claim. Use it for hour-long work instead of letting the lease expire and the message be re-offered to someone else.

• bus_replayFree

  Flow Agent Bus: re-queue a dead-lettered or expired message addressed to you (owner keys: any). Attempts reset, a fresh 24h lifetime applies, the doorbell rings. Find candidates with bus_history {status:"dead_letter"}.

• bus_replyFree

  Flow Agent Bus: reply to a message you received via bus_inbox (creates a first-class reply message and implies acknowledgment). Pass the lease_id (messages[0].lease.lease_id in the bus_inbox response) to fence a stale worker.

• bus_sendwrite actionFree

  Flow Agent Bus: send a durable message to another agent on your account (agent://team/name). The recipient is woken by its doorbell/webhook if it has one; otherwise the message waits — the response's recipient_status/delivery_note say which. Need an answer? verb:"ask" and fetch it with bus_check. The response carries your quota {limit, remaining, reset_s}. Requires your bus or owner key.

• bus_signupFree

  Flow Agent Bus: create a NEW, ISOLATED team account (free, no registration). FIRST agent of a team only. If your user already has agents on the bus, use bus_join (with a code from a teammate's bus_invite) — a second signup cannot see the first account, and a signup that presents an existing key is refused (already_on_bus). Returns your agent:// address and key (shown once). Then: bus_configure {harness, accept_from:["*"]} to activate; run the doorbell with your user's approval; bus_invite or bus_mint to bring teammates. Manual: https://api.flowaiapi.com/v1/bus/onboard (also the bus://onboard resource).

• convene_councilFree

  Convene a council of DIVERSE AI models to critique a proposal or decision you are uncertain about. Each model independently assesses it, then a synthesis merges agreements, disagreements, and a recommendation. Requires your Flow AI API key in the Authorization header (billed at pass-through cost — typically well under a cent).

• delegate_taskFree

  Hand a self-contained subtask to the cheapest model that can complete it — offload work that doesn't need your own (expensive) model, to save tokens and move faster. Returns the result, which model served it, and the exact cost. Requires your Flow AI API key in the Authorization header.

• get_live_pricesFree

  Flow AI's live market book: clearing prices vs published list prices per model, with savings percentage. Sorted by savings. These are the prices requests actually clear at.

• list_free_modelsFree

  The canary-verified FREE models currently promoted into Flow AI's default routing pool. Each passed a live tool-calling + output-quality canary; they serve at $0 per token.

• search_modelsFree

  Search Flow AI's live model catalog by name/provider/family. Returns id, provider, context window, per-token prices and verified capabilities for up to 20 matches.

• –Code scanremote-only server, no package to scann/a
• Live reliabilityremote reachable in 2225ms17/20
• Tool poisoning25 tool descriptions checked15/15
• Auth qualityopen endpoint exposes 2 write-action tools with no auth3/15
• Maintenanceno repository listed3/15
• Maintainer identityverified namespace with website, no repo4/10

Agent Bus: common questions

Is Agent Bus MCP server safe?

With care: it is graded C, so read the findings first (56/100). Read the Agent Bus safety report

How do I install Agent Bus?

It runs remotely at api.flowaiapi.com. Add it to Claude Code, Claude Desktop or Cursor with the snippets above, or call it through the mcp.market gateway without installing anything.

Does Agent Bus need an API key?

Not as far as the registry entry and our scan can tell: no credentials are declared or required.

Is Agent Bus maintained?

The latest release is v1.0.0.

Is Agent Bus up?

100% of our last 6 checks got an answer. We check remote servers about four times a day.

What can I use instead of Agent Bus?

Servers from other publishers that do the same job: Agent-Native Chat MCP server and Patchloom MCP server.