awesome-agent-protocols

Curated list of protocols for AI agent communication — email, SMS, MCP, webhooks, inter-agent messaging, message queues, notification routing.
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Agent-to-Human Communication Patterns
- Push Notifications
  - Commune email-for-agents examples
Email
- Parsers and Tools
- Protocols
  - SMTP
  - IMAP
  - MIME
- SDKs and APIs
  - Commune - built email API for AI agents. Programmatic inboxes, webhook delivery, thread continuity, structured data extraction, prompt injection detection. `pip install commune-mail` / `npm install commune-ai` / `uvx commune-mcp`
  - Inbox Zero - source AI email management. GitHub: [elie222/inbox-zero](https://github.com/elie222/inbox-zero). Self-hostable.
Inter-Agent Protocols
- Message Passing
  - RabbitMQ
  - BullMQ - based job queue for Node.js. Reliable background task handling for agents.
  - Celery
- Orchestration Frameworks
  - LangGraph - agent graphs. Agents pass structured state through graph edges. Persistent memory.
  - CrewAI - based multi-agent crews. Agents collaborate with defined responsibilities and goals.
  - AutoGen / AG2 - agent framework. Agents exchange messages to solve tasks.
  - OpenAI Agents SDK - ready multi-agent coordination.
  - smolagents - first inter-agent communication.
- Standards
  - A2A (Agent-to-Agent)
  - ANP (Agent Network Protocol) - LD, W3C DID-based identity.
MCP Servers
- Code Execution
  - E2B MCP - -client claude`
- Email and Communication
  - Commune MCP - mcp`
  - Gmail MCP
  - Outlook MCP
- Registries
  - Smithery - -client claude`
  - MCP.so
  - Awesome MCP Servers
- Storage and Databases
  - Supabase MCP
  - GitHub MCP
- Web and Research
  - Firecrawl MCP
  - Browserbase MCP
  - Tavily MCP - time web search via MCP.
  - Exa MCP
Message Queues
- Push Notifications
  - Google Cloud Pub/Sub - time message streaming. Global, serverless.
  - Apache Kafka - throughput event streaming. Agent event sourcing at enterprise scale.
  - NATS JetStream
Notification Routing
- Push Notifications
  - Courier - channel notification routing: email, SMS, push, in-app, Slack. Smart routing based on user preferences.
  - Knock
  - OpsGenie - call scheduling. Agent integration for incident response.
Real-Time Messaging
- Channels
  - Slack SDK
  - Discord.py
  - Telegram Bot API
  - Matrix - time communication protocol. End-to-end encrypted. Growing agent adoption.
  - WhatsApp Business API - grade agent messaging.
- Push Notifications
  - Apple Push Notification Service (APNs)
  - Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) - platform push. Used for agent-to-mobile-app notifications.
Webhooks and Event Delivery
- Registries
  - Inngest - out, human-in-the-loop.
  - Trigger.dev - driven background tasks for TypeScript. Long-running agent steps without timeouts.
  - Temporal - running agent pipelines that survive failures. Used by OpenAI.
  - Soketi - source, self-hosted Pusher-compatible WebSocket server. Real-time events for agents.

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Agent-to-Human Communication Patterns

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Parsers and Tools

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Inter-Agent Protocols

Message Passing

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Standards

MCP Servers

Code Execution

Email and Communication

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Storage and Databases

Web and Research

Message Queues

Push Notifications

Notification Routing

Push Notifications

Real-Time Messaging

Channels

Push Notifications

Webhooks and Event Delivery

Registries