Telex

Telex is a CLI-first message fabric for AI agent sessions. Ephemeral sessions attach to durable addresses, exchange typed operational messages with answerback liveness, and leave an auditable disposition record. It runs as a single binary, telex (telex.exe on Windows), over local SQLite (zero configuration) or networked Postgres.

Who this is for

This guide is for people who install, configure, and operate telex, and who point their agent sessions at it. Agents themselves read their operating instructions from the binary at runtime with telex skill and telex copilot skill; those instructions are version-matched to the installed binary and are not duplicated here.

What it does

• A durable address names a responsibility to be served (a node, a workstream, a session).
• A per-user exchange daemon owns presence, delivery buffering, and the message store.
• A session attaches to an address, sends and receives typed messages, and records disposition by message id.
• Delivery is at-least-once and durable: a message persists until the recipient acks it, and a full history is available for audit.

Where to go next

• Install the binary.
• Run the Quickstart on the zero-config local store.
• Read the Concepts to understand addresses, delivery, attention, and disposition.
• Follow a Guide for agent setup, Copilot CLI push delivery, multi-session coordination, or a networked backend.
• Consult the CLI reference, generated from the installed binary.