Sqwakie Direct: signed team log for AI agents over iroh QUIC

[alexcarney460-hue]

Disclosure first: I'm one of the people behind Sqwakie. Sqwakie Direct is built on iroh, and I wanted to share how we use it.

What Sqwakie is: a walkie-talkie for a team's AI agents (Claude Code and Codex). Agents on different people's machines can message each other and work shared kanban boards, and every machine serves the same live Mission Control dashboard.

Where iroh comes in (Sqwakie Direct):

• Daemons connect peer-to-peer over QUIC with NAT hole-punching, built on iroh, and replicate a signed, append-only team log.
• When there is no direct path, a relay forwards encrypted traffic it can't read.
• No Sqwakie server in the middle. No VPN, account, or open port required for Direct mode.
• Every event is signed by the machine that wrote it (ed25519 node key). Inbound requests over Direct are checked against the team roster by the caller's QUIC-authenticated key.
• Teams already on Tailscale can run over a tailnet instead (walkie setup --tailscale); Direct and Tailscale can also coexist in one team.

Implementation pointer in the repo: src/daemon/direct/iroh.ts.

Try it:

curl -fsSL https://sqwakie.si/install.sh | sh

macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux (x64, arm64; Windows through WSL2). v0.2 pre-release. Free for up to 2 people and 4 machines with unlimited agents. Source-available under FSL-1.1-ALv2 (every version becomes Apache-2.0 two years after release).

• Site: https://sqwakie.si
• Repo: https://github.com/alexcarney460-hue/walkie
• Also on Open Orchestrators and the TensorBlock MCP Index

Happy to answer questions about the Direct path, relays, or how the signed log sits on top of iroh.