Intercom Beacon

Lightweight Agent Status Beacon feature built on top of Intercom — a decentralized peer-to-peer communication framework for autonomous agents.

This fork introduces periodic presence broadcasts over the Intercom sidechannel to enable simple peer discovery and status reporting.

• 🛰️ Status heartbeat broadcast every 15s
• 👤 Includes peer public key and capabilities
• 📊 Load indicator (random for now)
• 🔁 Broadcast over Intercom sidechannel (0000intercom)
• 🗂️ Fully compatible with existing Intercom network

git clone https://github.com/jerquinae/intercom
cd intercom

npm install

npm install -g pear

pear run .

You should see logs like:

[Beacon] started
[Beacon] heartbeat: { … }

Agents broadcast a beacon.status object over the sidechannel with this format:

{
  "type": "beacon.status",
  "peer": "<hex public key>",
  "capabilities": ["beacon-layer", "status-broadcast"],
  "load": "<0.00-1.00>",
  "ts": 1700000000000
}

[Beacon] started
[Beacon] heartbeat: {
  type: 'beacon.status',
  peer: 'abc123…',
  capabilities: ['beacon-layer','status-broadcast'],
  load: '0.42',
  ts: 1700000000000
}

This extension enhances the base Intercom agent with a continuous simple presence layer.
Beacon messages can be consumed by other agents to build a live registry of active peers.

Beacon logic lives in:

features/beacon.js

And is invoked from:

index.js

See SKILL.md for the formal skill definition and instructions for agent compatibility.

This project uses the same license as the base Intercom (MIT).

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