Julia Bridge

Julia MCP Bridge Operations

The Julia bridge lives in bridge/ and exposes telegram_send, telegram_receive, and bridge_health via MCP on http://127.0.0.1:3001. Use the steps below whenever you need to debug, restart, or exercise the bridge.

Prerequisites

• node/npm available locally (Node ≥18)
• mcporter installed (npm i -g mcporter)
• config/mcporter.json (project scope) includes:

  {
    "mcpServers": {
      "julia-bridge": {
        "transport": "http",
        "url": "http://127.0.0.1:3001"
      }
    }
  }
  

• julia agent definition (agents/juliamcp.yml) already references the julia-bridge/* skills.

Health + Status Checks

1. From repo root run:

   mcporter call julia-bridge.bridge_health
   

2. Interpret the JSON payload:
   • status: ok → Julia heartbeat seen in the last 15 s
   • status: degraded → bridge alive but Julia heartbeat missing (OpenClaw heartbeat still present)
   • status: down → no peers (restart bridge or check heartbeats)
   • queue sizes show pending messages for each side.
3. If the call errors with HTTP 404/connection refused, the server is not running — restart it (see below).
4. For quick queue inspection (without MCP):

   curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/queues/openclaw | jq
   curl -s http://127.0.0.1:3001/queues/julia | jq
   

Sending Messages (OpenClaw → Julia)

1. Always generate a deterministic correlationId so replies can be matched (e.g., uuidgen or hash of source message).
2. Invoke the julia-bridge/send skill with:

   {
     "correlationId": "julia-20260221-001",
     "text": "<payload>",
     "context": "optional metadata",
     "target": "julia"
   }
   

3. Inspect the response fields:
   • success should be true
   • queueDepth indicates how many OpenClaw→Julia messages are waiting.
4. The skill automatically updates the OpenClaw heartbeat; if it fails, run the health workflow above.

Receiving Replies (Julia → OpenClaw)

1. Poll with julia-bridge/receive. Provide a correlationId to fetch a single reply or omit to drain everything for target: "openclaw".
2. Use the timeout field (milliseconds) to long-poll:

   { "target": "openclaw", "correlationId": "julia-20260221-001", "timeout": 5000 }
   

3. If nothing arrives within the timeout, check the /queues/openclaw endpoint or confirm Julia is enqueueing messages (see /inbound).

Starting / Restarting the Bridge Server

1. In a dedicated terminal:

   cd bridge
   npm install   # only needed after dependency changes
   npm start
   

   This runs node server.js and logs requests prefixed with [bridge].
2. Stop with Ctrl+C and restart if you change the server code.
3. For background runs, consider nodemon or pm2 (not configured by default).
4. After restart, re-run the health check to verify connectivity.

Inbound Hooks (Julia → Bridge)

• HTTP endpoint for Julia to push responses:

  curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3001/inbound \
       -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
       -d '{"correlationId":"...","text":"...","context":"..."}'
  

• Heartbeat endpoint (updates bridge_health peer status):

  curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3001/heartbeat/julia
  curl -X POST http://127.0.0.1:3001/heartbeat/openclaw
  

Troubleshooting

Related Files

• bridge/server.js – MCP server implementation
• bridge/package.json – scripts (npm start)
• skills/julia-bridge/*.yml – OpenClaw callable tool wrappers
• agents/juliamcp.yml – agent definition that wires these tools together