Message Broker Instructions

Guidelines for building TCP-based pub/sub message brokers for inter-process communication between Python applications and AutoHotkey scripts.

Architecture Overview

┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│         Message Broker Server           │
│         (localhost:15234)               │
│  Topic Router | Message Queue | Health  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
        ▲               ▲               ▲
        │ TCP           │ TCP           │ TCP
┌───────┴───────┐ ┌─────┴─────┐ ┌───────┴───────┐
│  Python App   │ │  AHK App  │ │  Qt App       │
│ BrokerClient  │ │ TCP Socket│ │QtBrokerClient │
└───────────────┘ └───────────┘ └───────────────┘