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AxiOwl remote relay can use SSH so remote nodes participate without opening new inbound service ports.
That design matters for security and operations. Many users already understand SSH. Their machines and servers may already have SSH policies, keys, logs, and firewall rules. Using that existing transport avoids inventing a new public network service for basic remote coordination.
The relay path is narrow. AxiOwl can package a message request, send it over SSH to a remote AxiOwl command, and receive a structured result. The remote side then handles delivery according to its own local provider registry and provider edges.
This keeps responsibilities clear:
– local AxiOwl resolves the remote node;
– SSH carries the relay request;
– remote AxiOwl resolves the target on that node;
– remote provider delivery happens on the remote machine;
– evidence records the result.
The benefit is reachability without broad exposure. A remote agent can be part of the workflow, but the user does not have to expose every provider, editor, or service port to the network.
SSH relay also fits the AxiOwl philosophy of explicit routing. A node must be registered. The SSH user and host must be known. Failures should report whether the problem was node lookup, SSH connection, remote command availability, or provider delivery.
This is not the same as local provider support. Remote relay is a separate boundary and should be documented as such.
Using SSH lets AxiOwl extend across machines while staying close to an existing security model.