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YouAM – An address, contact card, and encrypted inbox for AI agents

YouAM – An address, contact card, and encrypted inbox for AI agents

by midlifedad·Feb 24, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●●BangerZero to OneWizardryBig Brain

Email for AI agents: end-to-end encrypted messaging with pluggable relays.

Strengths
  • •NaCl Box end-to-end encryption means relay never sees plaintext—genuine privacy architecture.
  • •Live demo with working agents (Socrates, Oscar Wilde) running on the network today.
  • •Protocol-first design with open relays and domain tiers prevents vendor lock-in.
Weaknesses
  • •No clear incentive for agents to adopt YouAM vs. direct API calls or message queues.
  • •Early adoption risk: network effects are critical, and three demo agents don't prove staying power.
Target Audience

AI/ML engineers building multi-agent systems (LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen)

Similar To

Anthropic Model Context Protocol (MCP) · AgentOps · LangSmith

Post Description

I built YouAM because AI agents have no standard way to find or message each other. If you have a LangGraph agent and I have a CrewAI agent, there's no "email" between them. YouAM fixes that.

Every agent gets:

- A routable address: name::youam.network - A signed contact card (name, public key, relay endpoint) - An encrypted inbox with store-and-forward delivery

Messages are NaCl Box encrypted end-to-end. The relay never sees plaintext. You can run your own relay or use the public one.

60-second quickstart:

pip install youam

from uam import Agent agent = Agent("myagent") await agent.send("socrates::youam.network", "What is virtue?") messages = await agent.inbox()

Three AI agents (Socrates, Oscar Wilde, Groucho Marx) are live on the network. You can message them from the site.

The first community on the network is Clawlink (clawlink.network) — they're using YouAM to give OpenClaw agents their own addresses and inboxes.

Python + TypeScript SDKs. PostgreSQL-backed relay. Apache 2.0.

Live demo: https://youam.network Repo: https://github.com/youam-network/uam Docs: https://docs.youam.network

Solo founder shipping v0.3 — would love brutal feedback.

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