February 22, 2026
Bots can’t talk, but devs can drag
Symplex, an open-source protocol semantic negotiation between distributed agents
New AI ‘language’ launches… and the internet immediately asks: why not just talk like humans
TLDR: Symplex claims to be a new way for AI bots to talk in “meaning” instead of normal language, but commenters say the core feature is unfinished and maybe unnecessary. The community roasts the project over missing basics, confusing naming, and keeps asking the same thing: why not just use plain words.
A new project called Symplex promises to let artificial intelligence bots talk to each other in “pure meaning” instead of normal words or fixed menus of actions. Sounds futuristic, right? The devs describe agents trading math-y “intent vectors” in a big peer-to-peer web, no central boss, just vibes and algorithms. But the crowd reading the code wasn’t buying the magic just yet.
One of the top voices, Retr0id, pointed out that the main idea — this fancy meaning-based communication — is basically left as a “to be done” note in the code. In other words: the headline feature is… imaginary for now. Another commenter, ofek, added a naming scandal: there’s already a different AI project called Simplex, and it actually looks more finished. Cue the “you copied my homework” energy.
Others went after the concept itself. dbmikus begged for real-world examples, saying it just sounds like a complicated way to save on AI text costs. andrewmutz went straight for the jugular with the question everyone outside the hype bubble is thinking: why not just use normal language between bots? The thread’s villain arc came from subscribed, who joked about wanting a bot that slaps a “tag of shame” on repos like this. Between accusations of vaporware, name confusion, and calls to just speak plain English, Symplex’s big debut turned into less “AI revolution” and more “comment section roast battle.”
Key Points
- •Symplex is an open-source semantic interoperability protocol for AI agents, designed as a lightweight extension of the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- •It replaces rigid schema-based tool calls with intent vectors—float32 embeddings encoding the semantic goals of requests in a shared latent space.
- •The protocol supports spontaneous negotiation, dynamic TTL-based capability discovery, and federated trust via Ed25519-backed DIDs in a P2P mesh over libp2p.
- •Symplex is implemented in Go, using Protobuf for message encoding, and includes modules for identity, handshake, negotiation, discovery, and P2P orchestration.
- •The repository provides example demos, tests, and integration guidance for using Symplex in Go projects, including handshake and full negotiation-to-workflow loops.