docker/docker-agent

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Docker Agent is an open-source CLI (and Docker CLI plugin) that lets developers build, run, and share AI agents defined declaratively in YAML or HCL, with multi-agent orchestration, MCP tool integration, and RAG support. Agents are packaged and distributed via OCI registries, mirroring the container workflow of build, run, and push.

Use cases

• run ai agents from a yaml file
• build multi-agent teams without writing code
• give an llm agent tools like filesystem and shell access
• share ai agents through an oci registry
• connect agents to mcp servers
• add rag retrieval to an ai agent
• run a local coding assistant agent in the terminal

When to choose

• you want declarative, config-driven agents instead of writing orchestration glue code
• you already use Docker and want agents in the same workflow
• you need multi-agent delegation with MCP tool support
• you want to distribute agents as OCI artifacts

When to avoid

• you need a code-first agent framework with fine-grained programmatic control
• you want a hosted SaaS agent platform with a web UI
• you need to train or fine-tune models rather than run agents

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

agent-framework cli rag mcp llm-inference chatbot large-language-models developer-tools cli cross-platform windows go docker-cli-plugin yaml-configuration multi-agent-orchestration oci-registry declarative-agents tool-use ai-agents command-line retrieval-augmented-generation docker macos linux

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