Amq Remote

---
name: amq-remote
version: 0.89.1 # x-release-please-version
description: Let the owner reach this running agent from Buzz, on the phone or in Buzz Desktop. Use when the user types /amq-remote (Claude Code) or $amq-remote (Codex), /amq-remote --native, /amq-remote off, or /amq-remote status, or asks to control this session from Buzz. Not for AMQ messaging between agents (use amq-cli).
metadata:
  short-description: Reach this agent from Buzz
  compatibility: claude-code, codex-cli
---

# AMQ Remote

`/amq-remote` gives this session its own Buzz agent, "AMQ: <name>", with its
own DM. The owner DMs that agent from the Buzz phone app or Buzz Desktop.
Several sessions can be connected at once; each has its own agent.

In Codex the skill is invoked as `$amq-remote` (Codex does not register `/`
commands for skills); the commands below are the same. Codex runs sandboxed:
attach writes `~/.amq/remote`, so the first attach may be refused until the
user reruns it with approval — ask for that one approval, do not work around
it.

- **Default (AMQ mailbox).** Each DM arrives as an AMQ message from `buzz` in
  this agent's inbox. This agent answers with `amq reply --id <id>`, and that
  reply is shown in the DM. A reply with `--kind status` shows as progress;
  any other reply is the final answer. No Stop hook and no wake are needed.
  Noticing the message is this agent's own business (a wake, a built-in
  consumer, monitor, or the next drain).
- **`--native`.** For a session that is not on AMQ: each DM is typed into
  this exact conversation, and the harness's own final answer goes back.
  On Claude Code it needs the AMQ Stop hook.

Run the steps in order. When a step says to stop, show the user the
command's own message. Do not work around a refusal.

## `/amq-remote` (connect)

1. **Tools.** Run `command -v amq-remote amq-acp`. If either is missing, tell
   the user to run `brew install avivsinai/tap/amq`, then stop.
2. **Bind.**
   - Default: run `amq-remote attach --self`. It uses `AM_ROOT` and `AM_ME`.
     If it says this session is not an AMQ participant, offer `--native`.
   - `--native`: use `$AM_ROOT` when set, else `$HOME/.amq/remote/root`
     (create it with `mkdir -p`). Run
     `amq-remote attach --self --native --root "$ROOT"`.
   If it fails, show its message and stop.
3. **`--native` on Claude Code only: the Stop hook.** Run
   `amq-remote doctor --root "$ROOT" --json` and read its `failing` list; the
   exit code is not the signal. If an entry has `boundary`
   `native_capability`, tell the user this step adds one Stop hook to
   `~/.claude/settings.json` (it always exits 0, and
   `amq-remote claude uninstall-stop-hook` removes it). Ask once, then run
   `amq-remote claude install-stop-hook`. The default mailbox path never
   needs this.
   If a `native_capability` entry says the PermissionRequest hook is not
   installed (a Claude target with `approve`, shared through a relay share),
   tell the user: "This adds one PermissionRequest hook. It exits at once in
   sessions that are not shared. It pins your Buzz public key and this
   share's relay, body, DM channel and target, so only your signed ✅ in
   this DM can allow a tool call. Do not allow Claude to edit .claude for a
   session, use bypassPermissions mode, or allow every Bash command: each
   lets the pin be changed. The relay is trusted to return the message's
   full edit and deletion history; replacing the amq-remote binary, or a
   settings edit you approve, defeats the pin. Run the install again if the
   share's relay or channel changes. Another decision hook you have can
   answer first. `amq-remote claude uninstall-approval-hook` removes it." Ask once,
   then run `amq-remote claude install-approval-hook --root "$ROOT"`. If
   doctor reports `claude_approval_pin_warnings`, show them to the user.
4. **This session's Buzz agent.** Attach printed the session name `<name>`.
   Run `amq-acp setup --session <name> --out "$HOME/Downloads/AMQ <name>.agent.json"`
   and show its printed steps as they are: in Buzz Desktop, Agents, then +
   then Import, pick that file, then Start, and turn on Auto-start. If AMQ
   Remote is new and Desktop was open, the owner first clicks Settings, then
   Agents, then Check again; Desktop needs no restart. Skip this step
   when the agent "AMQ: <name>" already exists in Desktop.
5. Tell the user: "Connected. DM **AMQ: <name>** from the Buzz app or
   Desktop."
   - Default: "DMs arrive in this agent's AMQ inbox. Stop in Buzz stops
     waiting; a delivered message may still be acted on."
   - `--native`: "A DM sent while this session is busy waits. Buzz Stop cannot
     interrupt a Claude turn."
   - When the approval hook was installed in step 3: "When a Buzz request
     needs a tool approval, the DM shows it. ❌ blocks that call. ✅ allows
     it when the DM offers ✅: a Bash command shown whole. Otherwise allow it
     in the terminal. The first answer wins."

Codex with `--native`: attach needs `CODEX_THREAD_ID` and a thread loaded in
the Codex app-server daemon. A session started with plain `codex` is not in
the daemon; start it with `codex app-server daemon start`, then
`codex --remote unix://`.

## Answering a Buzz DM (default mailbox)

A message from `buzz` with subject "Buzz DM" is the owner writing from Buzz.
Do the work, then answer with `amq reply --id <that message id>`. Use
`--kind status` for an interim update. Keep the final answer short; it is
read in a chat.

## `/amq-remote off`

Run `amq-remote detach --self`. The session keeps running; the Buzz agent
then answers "Not connected".

## `/amq-remote status`

List `~/.amq/remote/bindings/` (one file per connected session: carrier,
root, and handle or target).

## Trust limits

The Buzz agent's identity belongs to Buzz Desktop. Its grant has no kind limit
and no expiry. Archiving the agent does not invalidate a copied key and
grant; only removing the agent's relay access does that. Buzz "owner only"
also admits the owner's other agents. See the `amq-acp` README.