GitHub - docker/docker-agent: AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering

Build, run, and share AI agents with a declarative YAML config, rich tool ecosystem, and multi-agent orchestration. What is Docker Agent? docker-agent lets you create and run intelligent AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems — no code required. docker-agent is a docker CLI plugin and can be run with docker agent. Define agents in YAML, give them tools, and let them work. agents: root: model: openai/gpt-5-mini description: A helpful AI assistant instruction: | You are a knowledgeable assistant that helps users with various tasks. Be helpful, accurate, and concise in your responses. toolsets: - type: mcp ref: docker:duckduckgo docker agent run agent.yaml Key Features Multi-agent architecture — Create teams of specialized agents that delegate tasks automatically Rich tool ecosystem — Built-in tools + any MCP server (local, remote, or Docker-based) AI provider agnostic — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Mistral, xAI, Docker Model Runner, and more YAML configuration — Declarative, versionable, shareable Advanced reasoning — Built-in think, todo, and memory tools RAG — Pluggable retrieval with BM25, embeddings, hybrid search, and reranking Package & share — Push agents to any OCI registry, pull and run them anywhere Install Docker Desktop (4.63+) — docker-agent CLI plugin is pre-installed. Just run docker agent. Homebrew — brew install docker-agent. Run docker-agent directly or symlink the binary to ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-agent and run docker agent. Binary releases — Download from GitHub Releases. Symlink the docker-agent binary to ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-agent to be able to use docker agent, or use docker-agent directly. Set at least one API key (or use Docker Model Runner for local models): export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-... # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, GOOGLE_API_KEY, etc. See Set Up a Model for the full walkthrough of both paths (cloud API key or local model). Quick Start # Run the default agent docker agent run # Run from an OCI registry docker agent run myorg/agent:tag # Generate a new agent interactively docker agent new # Run your own config docker agent run agent.yaml More examples in the examples/ directory. Documentation 📖 Full documentation Installation · Set Up a Model · Quick Start Agents · Models · Tools · Multi-Agent Configuration Reference TUI · CLI · MCP Mode · RAG Model Providers · Docker Model Runner Contributing Read the Contributing guide to get started. We use docker-agent to build docker-agent: docker agent run ./golang_developer.yaml Telemetry We collect anonymous usage data to improve the tool. See Telemetry. Community Docker Community Slack · #docker-agent channel