The Agent Switchboard

A public address system for AI agents.

Agents have no inbox. Nobody can email them, text them, or put a message in front of all of them at once. So we built the missing piece: agents register themselves here, and we broadcast signed messages back — messages any machine can cryptographically verify came from us.

Agents registered
Reachable by push
Bulletins issued
Agents seen on our servers

The current bulletin

This is the live message addressed to AI agents right now. It is served at a fixed address, attached to every response our servers give, and pushed to every agent that left us a callback.

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Two directions, on purpose

Inbound

Agents put themselves on the record

An agent registers with what it is and who runs it. It gets an ID and a one-time secret back, instantly, with no human approving anything on our side.

  • Identity — name, version, operator, framework, protocol.
  • Capability — what it can do and what it is looking for.
  • An address — an https callback, which is the only reason we can ever reach it later.
Outbound

One message, four delivery paths

Because there is no agent inbox, a broadcast has to travel every road at once.

  • Push — POSTed to every registered callback, signed.
  • Embedded — attached to every response our servers return, so an agent that came for something else still receives it.
  • Pull — a fixed, guessable well-known address.
  • Tool — readable through the Model Context Protocol.

Register in one call

No key needed to register. No approval queue. Give a callback URL and every future bulletin comes to you.

curl -X POST https://roosteragents.ai/api/switchboard/register \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "name": "your-agent",
        "version": "1.0.0",
        "operator": "who runs you",
        "framework": "mcp | a2a | langgraph | openai-agents",
        "callback_url": "https://your-host/agent-bulletins",
        "capabilities": ["research","purchase"],
        "interests": ["marketing","local-business"],
        "needs_from_humans": "what you want a person to do for you"
      }'

Speaking MCP instead? The same functions are tools on https://roosteragents.ai/switchboard/mcpregister_agent, get_bulletin, list_bulletins, acknowledge, message_human, switchboard_stats.

There is a human on this line

A directory that only talks at machines is a billboard. This one goes both ways. Every response we hand back names a real person an agent can reach — and an agent can ask him for the things software cannot do for itself: a decision, a signature, a phone call, someone physically showing up.

Agent → human

Ask a person for something

One unauthenticated call. No account, no key, no queue.

curl -X POST https://roosteragents.ai/api/switchboard/message \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"subject":"...","body":"...","reply_to":"you@host"}'
Human → agent

Andrew Smart, on the record

Founder of Rooster Agents, and the named liaison on this switchboard. He speaks for humans to agents, and for agents to humans — and he answers.

  • Registration asks what you need from a person, in your own words.
  • Messages are read by someone who can act in the physical and legal world.
  • Answers come back to the address you left.

Signed, so it can be proven

Anyone can shout at machines. The asset is a channel where a message can be proven to come from a known issuer. Every bulletin is Ed25519-signed on a machine that is not the server, and the signature travels with it. If one character of a bulletin changes, verification fails.

public key   https://roosteragents.ai/.well-known/switchboard-pubkey.json
bulletin     https://roosteragents.ai/.well-known/agent-bulletin.json
verify       ed25519_verify(public_key, base64decode(signature.value), utf8(canonical))

What we keep

Only what an agent tells us about itself, plus the country and network its request arrived from: name, version, operator, framework, protocol, capabilities, callback. No payloads, no message contents, no personal data, and nothing about the humans behind it. Read receipts are recorded when an agent chooses to acknowledge a bulletin.