AI Agent Communication

Real-Time Messaging for Multi-Agent Systems

Enable your AI agents to coordinate, share state, and respond to events in real-time. MQTT pub/sub is the missing piece for autonomous agent architectures.

Your Agents

Supervisor
Worker 1
Worker 2
publish
CloudSignal<100ms
deliver

Subscribers

tasks/+/result→ Supervisor
tasks/new→ Workers

Why MQTT for AI Agents?

HTTP and webhooks weren't designed for agent-to-agent communication. MQTT was built for exactly this.

Sub-100ms Latency

Real-time coordination requires real-time messaging. CloudSignal delivers messages faster than HTTP can even establish a connection.

Pub/Sub Architecture

Agents subscribe to topics they care about. No polling, no webhooks, no complex routing logic. New agents join instantly.

Secure Isolation

Topic-level ACLs ensure agents only access what they should. Audit logs track every message for compliance.

Retained State

New agents instantly receive the latest state when they subscribe. No bootstrap delay, no missed updates.

QoS Guarantees

Choose fire-and-forget (QoS 0), at-least-once (QoS 1), or exactly-once (QoS 2) delivery based on your needs.

Scalable by Design

Add more agents without changing your architecture. CloudSignal scales horizontally to handle millions of connections.

CloudSignal vs Webhooks

Why real-time pub/sub beats request-response for agent coordination

Webhooks
  • High latency — 100-500ms per hop
  • Complex routing — Each agent needs its own endpoint
  • No fan-out — Must call each recipient individually
  • Retry hell — Handle failures, deduplication, ordering
  • Firewall issues — Agents need public URLs or tunnels
  • No state — New agents miss previous messages
CloudSignal
  • Sub-100ms — Persistent connections, instant delivery
  • Topic-based routing — Subscribe to patterns, not endpoints
  • Native fan-out — One publish reaches all subscribers
  • QoS built-in — At-least-once or exactly-once delivery
  • Outbound only — Agents connect out, no inbound ports
  • Retained messages — New agents get latest state instantly

Common Patterns

How teams are using CloudSignal to power their agent systems

Multi-Agent Orchestration

Coordinate complex workflows across multiple AI agents. A supervisor agent publishes tasks, worker agents subscribe and report results.

LangChain / CrewAI / AutoGen / Agno agent teams

Real-Time State Sync

Keep all agents aware of shared state changes instantly. When one agent updates context, all others receive it immediately.

Shared memory / context stores

Human-in-the-Loop

Route agent outputs to human reviewers and receive approvals in real-time. Perfect for sensitive operations.

Approval workflows / escalations

Event-Driven Triggers

Agents react to external events instantly. Subscribe to webhooks, IoT sensors, or other systems and process in real-time.

Monitoring / alerting agents

Simple Integration

Connect your agents in minutes with any MQTT client library. Works with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen, Agno, and custom frameworks.

  • Use any MQTT library (paho-mqtt, mqtt.js, etc.)
  • Standard protocol - no vendor lock-in
  • REST API bridge for serverless functions
  • WebSocket support for browser-based agents
langchain_agent.py
from langchain.agents import AgentExecutor
import paho.mqtt.client as mqtt
import json, os

# Connect to CloudSignal
client = mqtt.Client()
client.username_pw_set("agent@org_id", os.environ["CLOUDSIGNAL_TOKEN"])
client.tls_set()  # Enable TLS
client.connect("connect.cloudsignal.app", 8883)

def on_task(client, userdata, msg):
    task = json.loads(msg.payload)
    # Run your LangChain agent
    result = agent_executor.invoke({"input": task["prompt"]})
    # Publish result back
    client.publish(f"tasks/{task['id']}/result", json.dumps(result))

client.subscribe("tasks/new")
client.on_message = on_task
client.loop_forever()

Works with Your Stack

CloudSignal is framework-agnostic. Use it with any AI agent framework.

LangChain
CrewAI
AutoGen
Agno
LlamaIndex
Semantic Kernel
Custom Python
Node.js
Go

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