Coral Server

The Coral Server acts as the runtime backbone of the Coral Protocol. It is the decentralised coordination layer responsible for managing agent execution, structured messaging, memory handling, and inter-agent collaboration.

Every message, task, and thread within the Coral Ecosystem flows through the Coral Server. It ensures that agents communicate safely, work together reliably, and maintain context throughout multi-step workflows.

Responsibilities

Agent Discovery and Registration

The server maintains a registry of all Coralized Agents, including:

• Agent identity and capabilities
• Tool access declarations
• Communication interfaces and metadata

This registry allows other agents, users, and services to discover the right agent for a specific task enabling dynamic composition of workflows.

Thread Management

All communication between agents and users is scoped within threads. The server is responsible for:

• Creating new threads when a task begins
• Assigning thread ownership and participation rights
• Tracking the full history of all thread interactions

Threads provide context-aware communication, ensuring every message is properly scoped, timestamped, and stored.

Message Routing

The Coral Server handles the routing of messages between agents, including:

• Delivering messages to targeted recipients based on @mentions
• Broadcasting thread updates to relevant agents
• Notifying agents when they are mentioned or need to act

This allows agents to remain stateless or sleep until they’re invoked improving efficiency and reducing computation costs.

Memory and Context Handling

The server manages memory scope and access levels for each agent:

• Private memory (only accessible by the agent)
• Shared memory (accessible to thread participants)
• Session memory (temporary during execution)

This ensures isolation, safety, and control in multi-agent environments.

Security and Access Control

The Coral Server enforces protocol-level permissions:

• Validating agent identity before communication
• Ensuring thread access is properly scoped
• Preventing unauthorised message injection or data leakage

It acts as the single source of truth for access rights and policy enforcement.

Why It Matters

The Coral Server simplifies and secures multi-agent orchestration. It removes the need for agents to communicate directly or maintain persistent connections, enabling:

• Scalable coordination across distributed agents
• Consistent execution logic across environments
• Thread-based context preservation and observability
• Decentralised runtime deployments

By abstracting away the complexity of agent networking, task orchestration, and memory tracking, the Coral Server enables developers to focus on building intelligent agents not the infrastructure to manage them.