Secure Low-Latency Interactive Messaging

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The secure transport layer for A2A, MCP, and SLIMRPC.

SLIM is built for interactive agent workloads: low-latency, end-to-end encrypted message delivery between agents that may be co-located or continents apart. Where protocols define conversation semantics, SLIM provides the data plane that makes those conversations work in production.

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Why Use SLIM

Transport for Agent Protocols

Carry A2A, MCP, OpenTelemetry, and custom agent protocols over a single secure overlay instead of bespoke per-protocol networking.

End-to-End Encryption

Message Layer Security (MLS) keeps payloads encrypted from source to destination, even when traffic traverses shared routing infrastructure.

Network-Topology Independence

Agents connect outbound to SLIM nodes—reachable by name, without exposing every agent to the internet.

How SLIM Routes Messages

See SLIM in Action

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Community

Connect with AGNTCY contributors, join working group meetings, and help shape secure agent messaging. For more information, see the community page.

Discord Chat with maintainers and contributors in the AGNTCY Discord server. Meetings Join working group and community meetings on the AGNTCY calendar. Blog Read announcements, tutorials, and technical deep dives from the SLIM team.

Contribute

Help build SLIM by contributing code, reporting bugs, or suggesting enhancements. Pick up a good first issue, review open pull requests, or read the contributing guide to get started.

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Explore SLIM

• Introduction

  Understand core concepts, the messaging layer, and the controller.

  Overview

• Get Started

  Run a SLIM node and send your first messages in minutes.

  Getting Started

• Architecture

  Sessions, groups, naming, routing, and end-to-end encryption.

  Architecture

• SDK & Tutorials

  Connect, build apps, create sessions, and call SLIMRPC services.

  SLIM SDK

• Integrations

  Run A2A, MCP, SLIMRPC, and OpenTelemetry over SLIM.

  Integrations

• Deployment

  Run SLIM locally, in Docker, on Kubernetes, or across multiple clusters.

  Deployment

• Specification

  Explore the SLIM Internet Draft and protocol definition.

  SLIM Specification

• Community

  Connect with maintainers and contributors across the AGNTCY project.

  SLIM Community