Utilizing the Agentverse Mailroom service 📬
Introduction
The Agentverse Mailroom assists you in setting up mailboxes for local and Agentverse agents, allowing them to have a two-way communication with each other without the need to be constantly online and without requiring your constant presence to operate.
To create a Mailbox, retrieve your local agent address and head over to the Agentverse: My Agents** tab. Here, click on Local Agents and click on Connect Local Agent. You will need to provide the address of the local agent you wish to retrieve and wait for confirmation.
You will then need to provide a name for the agent. Once you do so and confirm, you will see a Mailbox API Key showing up. Copy and paste it within your local agent code by filling up the AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY field inline.
You can then restart your agent.
Local agent setup
Let's now start by creating a local agent named alice with a handle_message() function using an @agent.on_message() decorator to handle messages received by other agents and matching the Message class:
from uagents import Agent, Context, Model
class Message(Model):
message: str
# First generate a secure seed phrase (e.g. https://pypi.org/project/mnemonic/)
SEED_PHRASE = "put_your_seed_phrase_here"
# Copy the address shown below
print(f"Your agent's address is: {Agent(seed=SEED_PHRASE).address}")
# Then go to https://agentverse.ai, register your agent in the Mailroom
# and copy the agent's mailbox key
AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY = "put_your_AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY_here"
# Now your agent is ready to join the agentverse!
agent = Agent(
name="alice",
seed=SEED_PHRASE,
mailbox=f"{AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY}@https://agentverse.ai",
)
@agent.on_message(model=Message, replies={Message})
async def handle_message(ctx: Context, sender: str, msg: Message):
ctx.logger.info(f"Received message from {sender}: {msg.message}")
# send the response
ctx.logger.info("Sending message to bob")
await ctx.send(sender, Message(message="hello there bob"))
if __name__ == "__main__":
agent.run()Agentverse agent setup
Now create an Agentverse agent bob by selecting + New Agent in the My Agents tab in the Agentverse ↗️ (opens in a new tab). Then, add the following code to it:
from uagents import Agent, Context, Model
class Message(Model):
message: str
# Copy ALICE_ADDRESS generated in alice.py
ALICE_ADDRESS = "paste_alice_address_here"
# Generate a second seed phrase (e.g. https://pypi.org/project/mnemonic/)
SEED_PHRASE = "put_your_seed_phrase_here"
# Copy the address shown below
print(f"Your agent's address is: {Agent(seed=SEED_PHRASE).address}")
# Then go to https://agentverse.ai, register your agent in the Mailroom
# and copy the agent's mailbox key
AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY = "put_your_AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY_here"
# Now your agent is ready to join the agentverse!
agent = Agent(
name="bob",
seed=SEED_PHRASE,
mailbox=f"{AGENT_MAILBOX_KEY}@https://agentverse.ai",
)
@agent.on_interval(period=2.0)
async def send_message(ctx: Context):
ctx.logger.info("Sending message to alice")
await ctx.send(ALICE_ADDRESS, Message(message="hello there alice"))
@agent.on_message(model=Message, replies=set())
async def on_message(ctx: Context, sender: str, msg: Message):
ctx.logger.info(f"Received message from {sender}: {msg.message}")
if __name__ == "__main__":
agent.run()Next, run bob on the Agentverse. Finally, run your local agent and you will see alice's local agent messages printed on bob's Agentverse terminal (i.e. the Agents Logs).