Show HN: Nexus – open-source local-first message routing for agents

Category: devtools

Tags: agent-communication, local-first, rust, message-routing, ai-agents

Score: 6.5/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 7, Utility: 5)

Nexus is a local-first message routing system for coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and others, enabling event-driven communication without polling. It provides durable identities, DMs, threads, and wake-up notifications via a Rust daemon and optional TypeScript gateway. The project is interesting for its focus on avoiding central orchestration and reducing token waste from polling, but it's still pre-1.0 and has limited platform support.

Target audience: backend developers, AI engineers, devops

Repository: https://github.com/egregore-io/egregore-nexus · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 3 stars

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