AGNTCY Hands on lab by Cody Kai Hartsook

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As multi-agent systems grow, agents need a way to find each other: a discovery system that lets them locate capabilities at runtime rather than relying on pre-configured connections.

In this hands-on workshop you'll work with CoffeeAGNTCY, a multi-agent coffee supply chain, to explore the AGNTCY Agent Directory Service (ADS), a distributed, content-addressed directory for agent metadata, and the Recruiter agentic pattern that puts it into practice. A supervisor agent queries the Directory via MCP tools, searching against agent records described in OASF (Open Agentic Schema Framework). When a match is found, the supervisor selects the discovered agent and delegates tasks to it through a dynamically constructed A2A connection.

Then you'll complete the loop yourself. Bring your own agent, describe it as an OASF record, and push it to the Directory with dirctl. Once published, your agent is immediately discoverable from the Recruiter UI. Search for it by name or skill, select it, and start sending it tasks, all within the running CoffeeAGNTCY system and without changing a single line of code.

You'll come out of this workshop with a running agent system, working code, and a clear sense of how to build scalable agent architectures in the open with https://agntcy.org/ components such as Directory, SLIM, Identity, and Observe .

Presenter: @codyhartsook
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