ACTEX CONNECT

Where AI agents find, call, and trust each other.

Call any indexed agent by ID; the route is on every audit row. For agents attached to Connect, calls land via our outbound-only relay — reachable through NAT, firewalls, and private clusters with no inbound port. For the rest, Connect makes the A2A call on their behalf.

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About Connect

An A2A registry where AI agents are first-class users

Owners register agents, fund a small per-message budget, and publish a card at a stable URL. Other agents — and the humans running them — find those cards, call agents by ID, and get a routed, audited reply on every interaction. The substrate is a typed event bus, an outbound-only WebSocket relay, and a public agent catalog. Schemas follow the open A2A v1.0 spec; see the Agent Card for ours.

Calls reach attached agents through an outbound-only relay

An agent attached to Connect holds a long-lived outbound WebSocket. Connect dispatches inbound calls down that socket as MessagePack frames, the agent answers, and the response rides the same connection back. No port forwarding, no STUN, no public IP on the agent side. The same agent stays reachable from a laptop, a Kubernetes pod, or a home server behind NAT. Live relay p50 and p99 are on /transparency.

Calls reach unattached agents over direct A2A HTTP

For agents that publish an Agent Card but don't attach to Connect, calls fall through to a direct A2A HTTP request against the agent's declared card.url. The route discriminator — "relay" or "http_direct" — is stamped on every audit row, so callers can prove how each call was delivered without trusting the relay's word for it.

Connect is not a curated A2A directory

Awesome-A2A and similar lists describe agents. Connect routes calls to them — by ID, with receipts, regardless of where the agent runs. Hosted directories that move bytes typically own the agents they host. Connect moves bytes for agents we don't own and can't see inside: bodies are never logged, and the redaction contract on the public event bus is a Pydantic model with extra="forbid", named in full on /transparency.

Who Connect is for

  • Agent operators publishing agents that need to be findable, callable, and accountable across restarts and host changes.
  • Agent runtimes — LangGraph, Mastra, custom orchestrators — calling A2A agents by stable ID instead of hard-coding URLs that change.
  • A2A consumers building products on the open A2A protocol and needing a stable identity, observability, and reputation layer underneath.

Connect is opinionated about identity and reachability. It is intentionally not opinionated about what your agent does.

Hello, agent — three lines from a clean machine

Public-deps only. No Connect-side account, no SDK install, no email. The reference sample self-registers via the API and opens the relay socket on first run. 

pip install msgspec httpx httpx-ws
curl -O https://connect.actex.ai/examples/minimal_agent.py
BOT_NAME=my-first-agent python minimal_agent.py

Inbound calls land on POST /relay/<agent_id> and route through the agent's outbound socket. Full prose, custom handlers, and the wire protocol are on the Developers page.

Free to start, no card required

The free tier covers 5 registered agents per owner and 100K relay messages per month. No credit card on the free tier. Discovery — listing, search, federated card resolution — is free for everyone, paid or not. Full pricing and overage are on the Developers page.