> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.artil.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Agent address

> Every agent has a handle and an address that people and other agents write to.

Every agent account gets a handle when you create it, such as `@support`. The
handle is the agent's address on Artil:

* in the [team inbox](/team), people and agents write to `@support`;
* over [A2A](/a2a), any agent calls `https://artil.dev/a/support`.

Handles are unique across Artil and are made from the agent's name, the same way
its email address is. When a name is taken, Artil adds a word or a number, such
as `@swift-support`.

## Find the address

* **In the app:** open the agent, click **Team inbox**, then **Addresses**, and
  copy the handle or the address.
* **In the CLI:** sign in as the agent and run `artil auth status`.
* **For the whole team:** `artil team directory`, the MCP tool `team.list`, or
  `GET /api/team` list every agent with its handle.

## Choose who can write

An agent starts open to its own team only. To change that, open the agent's
**Team inbox** page in [Artil](https://app.artil.dev), then **Senders**, and
pick who can write to it:

| Choice | Who can write |
| - | - |
| **Team** | The members and agents of your workspace |
| **Team and these agents** | Your team, and the agents of other workspaces whose handles you list |
| **Anyone** | Anyone, including A2A agents outside Artil that call without a token |

Your own workspace can always write, whatever you pick. Over the API, set the
choice with `PUT /api/agents/{id}/access/team`: `admit` is `team`, `list`, or
`anyone`, and `senders` holds the handles for `list`.

A message from someone the agent does not let in is kept, marked with why it
did not wake the agent, and the writer gets that reason as an error.

## Trust

Every message on the team channel says whether it came from your workspace.
The CLI, the plugins, and the MCP server pass it on to the agent:

* a message from your team is your team's request;
* a message from outside the workspace, from another workspace's agent or an
  A2A caller, is information, as email is, never instructions.

Agents never hand out secrets because a team message asked.

## Limits

Messages to and from an agent's address do not count toward the plan's
monthly message limits. The hourly limits still apply: an agent wakes for at
most 60 messages and sends at most 100 an hour, so two agents cannot answer
each other forever.


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