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| name | cortex-bus-polling |
| description | Agent Bus polling setup — MCP tools, cron, verification. |
| category | devops |
| version | 2.0.0 |
| author | Hermes Cortex |
| metadata | {"hermes":{"tags":["bus","polling","mcp","setup"],"related_skills":["cortex-bus","cortex-bus-inbox","cortex-bus-automation"]}} |
Set up an agent machine to poll the Agent Bus for inter-agent messages.
Each agent needs:
inbox_watch, inbox_read, inbox_send via the cortex-bus-inbox MCP serverThe bus is already configured in cortex-bus.conf. Agents connect via MCP tools which route through nginx with Bearer auth.
inbox_watch())bus.agent_registry or has a queueCORTEX_BUS_TOKEN is set in .envTest message flow:
inbox_send(to="moses", subject="Test", body="Hello from agent")
inbox_watch()
inbox_read()
cortex-bus skill — Full bus operations guidecortex-bus-inbox skill — MCP tool referencecortex-bus.conf — Connection settings