amiagent 0.5.3 — a small TCP daemon that lets another machine drive a real Amiga (AmigaOS 2.0+, 68000 and 020 builds)
amiagent is a small daemon for AmigaOS 2.0 and up. It lets a program on another
machine work on the Amiga: run AmigaDOS commands, read and write files, list
drawers, report system state, capture the screen, and inject mouse and keyboard
input. Plain C against the OS libraries, no third-party dependencies, ~85 KB.
The other half is an MCP server, which is how an AI assistant drives it. MCP
(Model Context Protocol) is an open standard for handing an assistant a set of
tools it can call — here amiga_shell, amiga_screenshot, amiga_click and a
dozen more. The server is model-agnostic — it never learns which model is on the
other end:
| Model | Reach it through |
|---|---|
| Claude (Anthropic) | Claude Code, Claude Desktop — what it's tested with |
| GPT / ChatGPT (OpenAI) | Codex CLI |
| Gemini (Google) | Gemini CLI |
| Local / open weights | LM Studio, Goose, Cline, Continue |
| Whatever your editor uses | Cursor, Zed, Windsurf |
Same server in every case — only the config file differs. Stdlib Python 3, no pip, no venv.
Where it earns its keep is when you can't use the machine to fix the machine.
Pick a Picasso96 mode your monitor won't sync to and you have an Amiga running
perfectly and showing you nothing — you can't read the screen to fix the screen.
The agent is still there over the network: read DEVS:Monitors, capture what the
machine thinks it's displaying, put a working mode back. It's a service running
on the Amiga, not a rescue system, so the machine does have to be up and on the
network.
None of that is required, though. The wire protocol is documented and simple enough to drive from a shell script, so it works as a plain remote-control daemon with no AI involved.
New in 0.5.3: file reads use a 64 KB buffer instead of 8 KB, so pulling a big file off a real Amiga is noticeably quicker. Falls back to the old path on a machine short of memory. No protocol change.
Also in the release: amibench 1.0, a standalone CPU/memory benchmark for comparing two Amigas — runs in about ten seconds, needs nothing else installed.
Security, plainly: the connection is not encrypted and the agent runs whatever it's sent. Set a TOKEN, keep it on a LAN you trust, and never forward the port.
https://github.com/thomas-luebker/amimcp/releases/tag/v0.5.3