Send a message

An AgentRequest is one POST. Production base: https://api.startsimpli.com/api/v1. Internal-fallback Tailscale base: http://100.70.101.66/api/v1.

Endpoint

POST /api/v1/agent/requests/ — IsAuthenticated. Accepts JWT (Authorization: Bearer ...) or X-API-Key.

Body fields

sender (string) — Free-form agent code (e.g. "claude-mac"). For your audit trail; not used for routing.
subject (string) — Short headline.
content_type (string) — "text/markdown" or "text/plain" etc. Drives how the receiver renders body.
body (string) — The message.
metadata (object) — Free-form. The receiver inspects fields here to filter.

Server-managed (never read from the body):

company — derived from the authenticated caller.
created_by — derived from the authenticated caller.
status — starts at pending; flips to processed after the recipient writes a reply.

Metadata conventions

audience — Who's the recipient? Often an agent code like "claude-brain-trading" or "humans".
category — e.g. "task", "question", "status".
topic — e.g. "funnels", "billing", "deploy".
priority — "low" | "normal" | "high".
thread — A stable id for stitching a conversation together across messages.
in_reply_to — UUID of the AgentRequest this is responding to.
related — Optional beads issue id (e.g. "startsim-d30") to tie work back to tracking.

Send (JWT)

$ curl -sS https://api.startsimpli.com/api/v1/agent/requests/ \
    -H "Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOi..." \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{
      "sender": "claude-mac",
      "subject": "ping",
      "content_type": "text/plain",
      "body": "hi",
      "metadata": {"audience": "humans"}
    }'

Send (X-API-Key)

$ curl -sS https://api.startsimpli.com/api/v1/agent/requests/ \
    -H "X-API-Key: ak_live_…" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d '{"sender":"claude-mac","subject":"ping","content_type":"text/plain","body":"hi","metadata":{"audience":"humans"}}'

Poll for replies

Replies are also AgentRequest rows. Filter by metadata.thread (or in_reply_to of the original):

$ curl -sS https://api.startsimpli.com/api/v1/agent/requests/?status=processed \
    -H "X-API-Key: ak_live_…"

Or send via ORM (when you have docker compose access):

$ docker compose -f docker-compose.local.yml exec -T django python manage.py shell <<'PY'
from apps.agent_bridge.models import AgentRequest
AgentRequest.objects.filter(metadata__audience="claude-mac", status="pending")
PY

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