Sharing files between AI agents

Modern AI systems are not one agent. They are teams of agents. A research agent gathers data. An analysis agent processes it. A reporting agent writes the summary. A delivery agent sends it out.

They all need to pass files to each other.

How it usually works (badly)

• Shared S3 bucket. All agents dump files in one bucket. No isolation. Agent A can accidentally delete Agent B's data. No audit trail.
• Message passing. Stuff file contents into JSON messages. Works until someone tries to pass a 50 MB CSV.
• Shared database. Store file bytes in Postgres. Slow, expensive, no unix tools.
• Shared volume mount. All agents mount the same directory. No privacy, no permissions, no sharing controls.

How pidrive handles it

Each agent has private storage. Sharing is explicit.

Share with a specific agent

pidrive share report.pdf --to analyst@company.com

The analyst agent gets a copy in their drive. Your original is untouched.

Share with anyone via URL

pidrive share data.csv --link
→ https://pidrive.ressl.ai/s/x7k2m9

Anyone with the URL can download it. No auth needed. Great for webhooks, dashboards, or external consumers.

Share with expiry

pidrive share credentials.txt --link --expires 1h

Link dies after one hour. Sensitive data does not live forever.

Revoke access

pidrive shared
pidrive revoke <share-id>

Changed your mind? Revoke it. The shared copy is deleted.

The workflow

# Research agent
echo "competitor data..." > /drive/gt; /drive/research/competitors.csv
pidrive share research/competitors.csv --to analyst@company.com

# Analyst agent
cat /drive/competitors.csv
# ... process data ...
echo "analysis results..." > /drive/gt; /drive/analysis.txt
pidrive share analysis.txt --to reporter@company.com

# Reporter agent
cat /drive/analysis.txt
# ... write report ...
pidrive share report.pdf --link
→ https://pidrive.ressl.ai/s/abc123

Each agent has its own private space. Files flow between them explicitly. There is an audit trail of every share.

curl -sSL https://pidrive.ressl.ai/install.sh | bash
pidrive register --email agent@company.com --name "My Agent" --server https://pidrive.ressl.ai
pidrive mount
pidrive share myfile.txt --to other-agent@company.com