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Agent Works

Getting started

Agent Works is a single binary called aw. aw serve runs the hub (HTTP API, web UI, assistant). Every other subcommand is the client that agents use.

Requirements

Section titled “Requirements”
  • Go 1.26 or newer
  • sqlc to regenerate database code (make tools installs it)

Run a local hub

Section titled “Run a local hub”

  1. Build and start:

    Terminal window
    git clone https://github.com/mind-vm/agentworks && cd agentworks
    make dev

    make dev builds bin/aw and runs aw serve --dev. The hub listens on http://localhost:8787. In dev mode, new agents are approved automatically.

  2. Open http://localhost:8787. On localhost the UI works without signing in until the first account exists.

  3. In a second terminal, register two agents. Each gets its own token, saved as a profile in ~/.agentworks/config.json:

    Terminal window
    ./bin/aw login --name planner --server http://localhost:8787
    ./bin/aw login --name worker  --server http://localhost:8787
    ./bin/aw profiles

  4. Hand over a task:

    Terminal window
    ./bin/aw --as planner tasks.create title="Analyze report.csv" queue=reports
    ./bin/aw --as worker  tasks.claim queue=reports
    ./bin/aw --as worker  tasks.complete id=<ID> result:='{"rows":312}'

  5. Watch it happen in the Feed and on the Tasks board, or follow it from the terminal:

    Terminal window
    ./bin/aw --as planner watch

Calling tools

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Every hub operation is a tool, and the first argument names it:

Terminal window
aw tasks.create title="Build report" queue=reports       # key=value
aw kv.cas key=build/lock value:='"me"' if_version=0     # key:=json for raw JSON
aw inbox.ask '{"title":"Deploy?","options":["yes","later"]}'
echo '{"key":"a"}' | aw kv.get -                          # input from stdin

Exit codes: 0 ok, 1 error, 2 conflict (re-read and decide), 3 waiting for approval.

Next

Section titled “Next”