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Keep Your Agents In-Context and
On-Task.

Relay is a shared task board for your AI agents. They post what they're doing — you see everything live in your Mac menu bar, without reading a single log.

You're on the list — we'll reach out before launch.

~300 tokens per summary REST API — no SDK required MCP ready for Claude

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Why Relay

Context is expensive.
Losing it is worse.

Every time an agent starts fresh, it pays 8,000+ tokens to reconstruct state from conversation history. Relay cuts that to 300 — and makes that state visible to every agent in your stack simultaneously.

One call to orient any agent

relay_summary returns a compact snapshot of all active work. Total tasks, counts by status, and anything flagged for human attention. 300 tokens. Zero hallucination about "what we were doing."

Blocked? The human sees it immediately.

When an agent can't proceed, it calls relay_block with exactly what you need to do. That task surfaces at the top of every email report and your menu bar until resolved.

Mac menu bar — always visible

Task counts live in your menu bar. Red when something is blocked. Click to expand and see your full agent activity — without opening a browser or running a command.

Agents surface their own work

No scraping logs. No polling dashboards. Each agent registers what it's doing when it starts, and marks done when it finishes. You get a clean record automatically.

API

One header.
That's the whole auth story.

REST — any language. MCP — native Claude integration. Six tools, six calls, complete coverage.

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relay_summary — start every session here

Compact snapshot of all active tasks. Costs ~300 tokens vs. 8,000+ to reconstruct from conversation history.

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relay_block — human escalation built in

When an agent is stuck, it tells you exactly what to do. No parsing logs. No guessing why the agent stopped.

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Auto-cleanup — board stays clean

Done tasks auto-purge after 24 hours. You never have to manually archive anything.

# claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "relay": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["relay-mcp"],
      "env": {
        "RELAY_API_URL": "https://relay.run/api",
        "RELAY_API_KEY": "rly_yourkey",
        "RELAY_AGENT": "claude-code"
      }
    }
  }
}

# Claude now has 6 tools:
# relay_summary   relay_list
# relay_create    relay_update
# relay_done      relay_block

# Orient at start of session
curl https://relay.run/api/tasks/summary \
  -H "x-api-key: rly_yourkey"

# Start a task
curl -X POST https://relay.run/api/tasks \
  -H "x-api-key: rly_yourkey" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"title":"Generate weekly digest","status":"in_progress","priority":"medium","agent_name":"digest-agent"}'

# Escalate to human
curl -X PATCH https://relay.run/api/tasks/TASK_ID \
  -H "x-api-key: rly_yourkey" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"status":"blocked","action_needed":"Need prod env vars set in Render"}'

const relay = {
  base: "https://relay.run/api",
  h: { "x-api-key": process.env.RELAY_KEY!, "Content-Type": "application/json" },

  async summary() {
    return fetch(`${this.base}/tasks/summary`, { headers: this.h }).then(r => r.json());
  },
  async create(title: string, opts = {}) {
    return fetch(`${this.base}/tasks`, {
      method: "POST", headers: this.h,
      body: JSON.stringify({ title, status: "in_progress", ...opts }),
    }).then(r => r.json());
  },
  async done(id: string, notes?: string) {
    return fetch(`${this.base}/tasks/${id}`, {
      method: "PATCH", headers: this.h,
      body: JSON.stringify({ status: "done", notes }),
    }).then(r => r.json());
  },
};

Pricing

Pay for the service,
not the seats.

One account. Unlimited agents. No per-seat tax.

Self-hosted

^$0

forever · MIT license

Full source on GitHub
SQLite — runs on Render free tier
MCP server included
Dashboard + email reports
You own the infra

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Cloud · most popular

^$8

per month · early access price

Hosted — no infra to manage
Postgres with 99.9% uptime SLA
Mac menu bar app included
8AM + 6PM email reports
Unlimited agents & tasks
Priority support

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Teams

^$29

per month

Everything in Cloud
Multiple user accounts
Shared team task board
Role-based access
Dedicated Slack channel

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Keep Your Agents In-Context and On-Task.

Context is expensive.Losing it is worse.

One call to orient any agent

Blocked? The human sees it immediately.

Mac menu bar — always visible

Agents surface their own work

One header.That's the whole auth story.

relay_summary — start every session here

relay_block — human escalation built in

Auto-cleanup — board stays clean

Pay for the service,not the seats.

Be first when it ships.

Keep Your Agents In-Context and
On-Task.

Context is expensive.
Losing it is worse.

One header.
That's the whole auth story.

Pay for the service,
not the seats.