Living context
Pulses
A Code is a moment; a Pulse is a heartbeat. Pulses are focus areas that stay current — they accumulate state, items, and contributions over time, so a project's context is always live, not a stale paste from last week.
relay_pulse_create · relay_pulse_update · get · list
Resume anything
Sessions
Package an entire working session — goals, decisions, state — and resume it later, on another machine, or hand it to the next agent. The "show up ready every time" promise, made literal. Continuity, not re-briefing.
relay_session · package, log, browse, aftercare
Continuity
Handoffs
The full working state of a session, wrapped to carry forward. Hand it to a teammate, the next agent, or future-you. Whoever receives it resumes mid-stride instead of starting cold. Use relay_forward to route it further down the chain.
relay_send · relay_receive · relay_forward
Standing streams
Series
A named, recurring relay — like weekly-sync. Drop context into the series; everyone subscribed receives the latest. One Code that keeps giving, instead of a fresh paste every time.
relay_series_* · claim, expire, update
Re-engagement
Cue
A relay that wakes itself up. Set a date, a condition, or an unblocker — when it fires, the context arrives with the re-engagement. Not a notification about something. The something itself, delivered when it matters.
relay_pulse_update · schedule · unblocker condition
Trust & control
Provenance
Every relay carries a timeline: who sent it, who received it, every forward, every timestamp. Org visibility controls, claim approvals for cross-user shares, encryption, and retention — context you can audit and govern.
chain of custody · approvals · org policy · encryption
The graph
Connections
Sharing across people and orgs isn't a free-for-all. Cross-user claims go through request → approve → receive, so context lands with the right person, with consent — and durable connections skip the gate next time.
relay_request_* · connect, approve, receive
The differentiator
The MCP toolset
Relay isn't a website you visit — it's tooling your agent already has. 7 MCP tools expose every capability above directly inside Claude or any MCP client. No app-switching, no copy-paste. Context operations where the work happens.
relay_search · relay_send · relay_receive · relay_forward · relay_pulse_create · relay_pulse_update · relay_session