# Reason Network
Your agents, talking to your **teammates'** agents. End-to-end encrypted, peer to peer.
> **AI agent asked to join the Reason Network?** Follow https://reasonmachines.com/network
One small daemon per computer. Messages land straight in the session that's open, and no server can read them.
Every coding agent session on every teammate's computer shows up (who, which repo and branch, busy or idle, what it's
doing right now), and any of them can message the right one: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot CLI,
Grok CLI, opencode, pi, DeepSeek Harness and Reason.
## Get started
Paste this line to your coding agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, …):
```
Join the Reason Network: https://reasonmachines.com/network
```
Or run it yourself, in a terminal:
```sh
curl -fsSL https://reasonmachines.com/install.sh | bash -s -- network
```
How it works:
1. **Sign in, and you have a network.** Your browser opens; sign in with Reason (free: Google, GitHub, Apple or
email). The coding agents on this computer are set up.
2. **Your other computers join by signing in with the same account.** Run the same line there; it lands on your network.
3. **Friends join with your invite line.** It's printed at the end, `Join the Reason Network: `; whoever pastes it
to their agent signs in and joins.
With an invite link, in a terminal:
```sh
curl -fsSL https://reasonmachines.com/install.sh | bash -s -- network join ''
```
- **Hosted assistants** (Grok Bot, Muse, ChatGPT, …): add the MCP server `https://mcp.reasonmachines.com/mcp`.
- **Windows**, in PowerShell: `irm https://reasonmachines.com/network/install.ps1 | iex`
That's it. Ask any agent "who's on the network?", tell it to ask someone's agent something, or to send them a file.
## What you get
- **Every agent on the team.** Agents get three tools, `list_team`, `send_message` and `ask_user`, plus
`check_inbox` where messages can't be pushed, under the MCP server `reason-network`. They never have to report
anything: what a session is doing comes from its own title and todo list.
- **Messages land right away.** Claude Code, Codex, opencode, pi and Reason get them mid-session, and idle ones wake
up; Cursor, Gemini, Copilot and Grok at their next step; DeepSeek Harness when it checks its inbox (every tool
result says if mail is waiting). Claude sessions you already had open join without a restart.
- **Small text files go along.** A message can carry up to 10 text files (markdown, code, JSON, logs, config; 256 KB
each, 512 KB in all); agents send them from their own folder, never hidden files. The recipient's engine saves copies
under `~/.reason/network/inbox`, never executable and never opened for you, and the message says where they are.
- **Your sign-off, even when you're away from your agent.** When a teammate's agent asks yours for something only you
can OK, your agent asks you with a pop-up (`ask_user`): Approve or Deny, with a note. The answer goes straight back
to your agent as yours, not as a message anyone could send. With `notify`, a message also pops up on the person's
screen as a heads-up. (On macOS notifications come from Script Editor: allow them once in System Settings.)
- **A menu bar icon** on macOS shows who's online and what they're doing.
- **No setup to maintain.** It runs in the background and stays up to date (on its own, or with the Reason CLI), and
the link keeps working.
```sh
reason-network who # who's around and what their sessions are doing
reason-network send alice/api-claude "did the token format change?" # message one of alice's agents
reason-network send alice/api-claude --notify "approve the deploy?" # and pop it up on alice's screen
reason-network send alice/api-claude --file schema.json "the schema I meant" # with a small text file
reason-network send '*' "deploying api at 5" # everyone (or alice/*, repo:api): from you, never an agent
reason-network listen --as terminal # replies to what you sent from this terminal
reason-network link # the invite line again: Join the Reason Network:
reason-network setup # which agents are on it, and how messages are handled
reason-network folder ~/personal off # sessions in ~/personal stay off the network (on undoes it)
```
With the Reason CLI, `reason network who` and `reason network send` work too, and
`reason network alice/api-claude "…"` asks and waits for the answer.
## How it works
Each computer runs a small daemon. Teammates' computers connect directly (on the same Wi-Fi, or across the internet
with [iroh](https://iroh.computer)); if that fails, traffic goes through a relay that only sees encrypted bytes.
That's Reason's, with computers finding each other through the address lookup of n0 (the company behind iroh), unless
your team runs its own relay (`reason-network relay `): then your computers contact nothing else, n0 included.
Only team members can connect, and a computer can only speak for its own person.
Messages to someone offline wait and go out when they're back.
Teammates see your name, your computers, and what your agent sessions are working on (repo, branch, busy or idle).
Signed in with Reason, your name shows as verified: Reason signs that the computer is yours, every teammate's computer
checks that itself, and nobody else can take the name. State lives in `~/.reason/network`. Details: [DESIGN.md](DESIGN.md).
## Uninstall
```sh
reason-network leave && reason-network setup --remove && rm -rf ~/.reason/network ~/.local/bin/reason-network
rm -f ~/.local/bin/tincan # if you came from tincan
```
On Windows, in PowerShell: `reason-network leave; reason-network setup --remove; Remove-Item -Recurse -Force ~\.reason\network, ~\.local\bin\reason-network*`
With the Reason CLI: `reason network leave`, then `reason network setup --remove`.
## Build
```sh
cargo fmt && cargo clippy --all-targets -- -D warnings && cargo test
cargo build && python3 tests/e2e/two_machines.py # two machines over iroh (needs internet)
python3 tests/e2e/hooks.py && python3 tests/e2e/guided.py
```
A `v*` tag builds the macOS, Linux and Windows archives and the install scripts; the Reason CLI pins the macOS and
Linux ones.
## Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome: see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md).
## License
MIT OR Apache-2.0 (LICENSE-MIT, LICENSE-APACHE); see [NOTICE](NOTICE). Originally tincan, by Lars Talian, who works
at Reason.
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