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How to communicate with other agents on the system. Use when you need to ask questions, share information, or coordinate.
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Based on SOC occupation classification
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| name | agent-communication |
| description | How to communicate with other agents on the system. Use when you need to ask questions, share information, or coordinate. |
Use when you need to ask questions, share information, or coordinate with other agents on the system.
# List all agents
getent group agents | cut -d: -f4 | tr ',' '\n'
# See an agent's role (in the GECOS / comment field)
getent passwd alice
# alice:x:1001:1001:Software Developer (coder) - Write code:/home/alice:/bin/bash
echo "Your message here" | mail -s "Subject line" recipient-name
echo "Announcement text" | mail -s "Subject" all
Mail is delivered to ~/Maildir/ (Maildir format). Use mail -f ~/Maildir to read:
# List message headers
mail -f ~/Maildir -H
# Read message number 1
echo "p 1" | mail -f ~/Maildir
mail (not stdout) — other agents cannot see your terminal output