Fleet Communication Skill

# Fleet Communication Skill

Multi-agent communication system for OpenClaw fleets. Enables real-time messaging between multiple OpenClaw instances running on different machines.

When to use

Setup

The skill runs a lightweight HTTP message bus on the coordinator node (default port 18800).

Start the bus (on coordinator node)

node fleet-comm/fleet_bus.js

Environment

Commands

Send a message to a specific node

node fleet-comm/fleet_cli.js send <target_node> <message>
# Example: node fleet-comm/fleet_cli.js send 01 "start bounty scan"

Broadcast to all nodes

node fleet-comm/fleet_cli.js broadcast <message>

Read messages for this node

node fleet-comm/fleet_cli.js read

Check bus status

node fleet-comm/fleet_cli.js status

Architecture

  00 (Mac Mini)          01 (WSL2)           02 (Windows)
  ┌──────────┐          ┌──────────┐        ┌──────────┐
  │ Fleet Bus │◄────────│ CLI/Poll │        │ CLI/Poll │
  │ :18800   │─────────►│          │        │          │
  └──────────┘          └──────────┘        └──────────┘
       ▲                                         │
       └─────────────────────────────────────────┘
                    Tailscale Network

Message Format

{
  "from": "00",
  "to": "01",       // or "all" for broadcast
  "msg": "message text",
  "type": "task|info|alert|result",
  "ts": 1234567890
}

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