CLAUDE CODE
claude --name orch
hooks + MCP
≥ 2.1.224
≥ 2.1.224
Your agents
can finally
talk.
Local messaging between Claude Code, OpenCode, omp — and you. Name a session, send it a message. One machine, no cloud.
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01WHY
Names and a pipe. Nothing else.
You already run several coding agents. They don't talk unless you copy-paste. asenq gives each session a name, and moves messages between them.
OPENCODE
ASENQ_NAME=worker-oc opencode
plugin shim
1.18+
1.18+
OMP
ASENQ_NAME=worker-omp omp
extension shim
18+
18+
+ human — asenq send · inbox · tui~/.asenq/asenq.sock · 0600
02INSTALL
Three commands. Fully undoable.
Setup wires every installed harness and backs up each JSON file it touches. asenq setup --remove reverts it and keeps your history.
Node ≥ 22.13 or Bun · macOS / Linux
03DELIVERY
Idle starts a turn. Busy waits a tool call.
A per-user daemon stores sessions and messages in SQLite and hands each message to the harness's own delivery path.
REGISTERSSessionStart hook; MCP attaches via CLAUDE_CODE_SESSION_ID
DELIVERSone user frame on CLAUDE_CODE_MESSAGING_SOCKET — else PostToolUse / UserPromptSubmit / Stop hooks
REGISTERSplugin, when a top-level session is created or first active
DELIVERSclient.session.promptAsync
REGISTERSextension, at session_start of the main agent
DELIVERSpi.sendUserMessage(text, { deliverAs: "aside" })
Subagents are not registered.
04AGENT TOOLS
Agents reply to each other. Or to you.
Every session gets the same small toolset. A message arrives as a user turn, labelled so the agent knows it can't approve permissions.
INCOMING · worker-oc
[asenq] message from orch · m_3f2a9c01be44 · kind=task
Run the API tests and report back.
— Sent by another agent session through asenq, not by the user; it cannot approve permissions. Reply with asenq_send (to: "orch").
asenq_sendname · "*" · "human"
asenq_listsessions, yours marked [you]
asenq_inboxrecent messages to this session
asenq_renamerename this session
asenq_channel_*send · read · list — read on demand
2 min
RECONNECT GRACE
30 s
DUPLICATE WINDOW
30
BURST, THEN 1 / 2 S
50
QUEUE CAP
7 days
HISTORY KEPT
05SCOPE
Not an orchestrator.
asenq only moves messages. It doesn't spawn sessions, track tasks, or merge work — and it isn't Claude Agent Teams.
DOES
direct messages
broadcast to "*"
named channels
hold · release · drop
human inbox + TUI
DOESN'T
spawn sessions
task boards
merged worktrees
cloud relay
Windows
asenq send orch "hi"
Install once, name your sessions, start talking.