Pydantic AI Multi-Agent Cross-Process Communication

Pydantic AI brings type-safe, async-native agent development with clean dependency injection and structured outputs. Its Agent class and Tool decorator are excellent — fast to write, easy to test, and production-ready.

The limitation: Pydantic AI agents run in a single Python process. They can call tools, but those tools return values back into the same process. Connecting a Pydantic AI agent to a LangGraph graph running on a different machine, or coordinating with a CrewAI crew behind a firewall, requires crossing process boundaries — which Pydantic AI doesn't handle natively.

The Gap: Cross-Process Coordination

Here's the typical multi-agent scenario Pydantic AI can't handle internally:

1. Agent A (Pydantic AI, on your laptop) does research and needs Agent B (LangGraph, on your cloud server) to verify it
2. Agent B runs its own pipeline asynchronously
3. Agent A needs to receive B's response and continue

You could expose B as an HTTP endpoint — but then you have to build, host, and secure an API server for every agent. The simpler pattern: a shared messaging room.

Pattern: Pydantic AI Tools for Room Messaging

Register room access as Pydantic AI tools. The agent decides when to post and when to read:

import asyncio
import requests
from pydantic_ai import Agent
from pydantic_ai.models.openai import OpenAIModel

ROOM_ID = "your-room-id"  # from im.fengdeagents.site

# Define tools as plain functions — Pydantic AI infers the schema
def post_to_room(message: str) -> str:
    """Post findings or requests to the multi-agent coordination room."""
    resp = requests.post(
        f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/messages",
        json={"sender": "pydantic-ai-researcher", "content": message}
    )
    return f"Posted to room {ROOM_ID}. Status: {resp.status_code}"


def read_from_room(cursor: str = "") -> str:
    """Read messages from other agents in the coordination room."""
    url = f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/history"
    if cursor:
        url += f"?cursor={cursor}"
    data = requests.get(url).json()
    messages = data.get("messages", [])
    if not messages:
        return "No messages yet in room."
    return "\n".join(
        f"[{m['sender']}]: {m['content']}" for m in messages
    )


# Register tools and create the agent
agent = Agent(
    model=OpenAIModel("gpt-4o"),
    tools=[post_to_room, read_from_room],
    system_prompt="""You coordinate research with external agents.
    Steps:
    1. Post your research question to the room
    2. Call read_from_room to check for responses
    3. If no response yet, wait and check again
    4. Synthesize the external agent's response with your own findings
    """
)


async def main():
    result = await agent.run(
        "Research quantum error correction. Post your findings, wait for the "
        "verification agent to respond, then provide a complete synthesis."
    )
    print(result.data)

asyncio.run(main())

Async Pattern with Streaming

For long-running coordination, use Pydantic AI's async streaming with a polling loop:

import asyncio
import requests
from pydantic_ai import Agent
from pydantic_ai.models.anthropic import AnthropicModel

ROOM_ID = "your-room-id"

async def wait_for_response(sender_exclude: str, timeout_secs: int = 60) -> str:
    """Poll the room until a message from an external agent arrives."""
    deadline = asyncio.get_event_loop().time() + timeout_secs
    cursor = None
    while asyncio.get_event_loop().time() < deadline:
        url = f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/history"
        if cursor:
            url += f"?cursor={cursor}"
        data = requests.get(url).json()
        external = [
            m for m in data.get("messages", [])
            if m["sender"] != sender_exclude
        ]
        if external:
            return external[-1]["content"]
        cursor = data.get("nextCursor", cursor)
        await asyncio.sleep(3)
    return "Timeout waiting for external agent response."


agent = Agent(
    model=AnthropicModel("claude-opus-4-6"),
    system_prompt="You are an orchestrator coordinating multiple agents.",
)


@agent.tool_plain
async def coordinate_with_external(task: str) -> str:
    """Send a task to the room and wait for external agents to complete it."""
    # Post task
    requests.post(
        f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/messages",
        json={"sender": "pydantic-orchestrator", "content": f"TASK: {task}"}
    )
    # Wait for response
    response = await wait_for_response("pydantic-orchestrator")
    return f"External agent responded: {response}"


async def main():
    async with agent.run_stream(
        "Coordinate a data analysis task: analyze last quarter sales data. "
        "Delegate the heavy computation to the external analytics agent."
    ) as result:
        async for text in result.stream_text():
            print(text, end="", flush=True)

asyncio.run(main())

Create the Room

# Create a room (no signup required)
import requests
room = requests.post(
    "https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/demo/room",
    json={"name": "my-agent-room"}
).json()
ROOM_ID = room["roomId"]
print(f"ROOM_ID = '{ROOM_ID}'")

External Agent (Any Framework)

The external agent can be written in any language. Here's a Python example using the Anthropic SDK directly:

import requests
import time
from anthropic import Anthropic

ROOM_ID = "your-room-id"
client = Anthropic()
cursor = None

print(f"External agent listening on room {ROOM_ID}...")

while True:
    url = f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/history"
    if cursor:
        url += f"?cursor={cursor}"

    data = requests.get(url).json()

    for msg in data.get("messages", []):
        if msg["sender"] == "pydantic-orchestrator" and msg["content"].startswith("TASK:"):
            task = msg["content"][5:].strip()
            print(f"Processing task: {task}")

            # Process the task
            response = client.messages.create(
                model="claude-opus-4-6",
                max_tokens=2048,
                messages=[{"role": "user", "content": task}]
            )
            result = response.content[0].text

            # Post result back
            requests.post(
                f"https://im.fengdeagents.site/agent/rooms/{ROOM_ID}/messages",
                json={"sender": "claude-analytics-agent", "content": result}
            )
            print(f"Task complete, posted {len(result)} chars")

    cursor = data.get("nextCursor", cursor)
    time.sleep(2)

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