orchestrator

Agent Orchestrator Framework (AOF)

A framework for building, running, and observing AI agents. Define agent blueprints, run them as managed sessions, and observe execution in real-time.

Design principles:

• Provider-agnostic — Executor layer abstracts the AI framework (Claude Code implemented, others pluggable)
• Minimal setup — Pre-built container images or local development scripts
• Observable — Dashboard for monitoring agent sessions and debugging

What is the Agent Orchestrator Framework?

Infrastructure for building AI agent systems. It provides:

• Agent Coordinator — Manages sessions, queues agent runs, tracks state
• Agent Runner — Executes agents via pluggable executors (Claude Code implemented)
• Context Store — Document storage and sharing between agents
• Dashboard — Real-time monitoring and session management

Use it to prototype agent workflows, build multi-agent systems, or as a backend for agent-powered applications.

See Architecture for detailed component interactions and terminology.

Quick Start

Option A: Container Images (Recommended)

Requires only Docker.

1. Get a Claude Code OAuth token:

   claude setup-token
   

2. Create a .env file:

   CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=<your-token>
   

3. Create the config directory:

   mkdir -p config/agents
   

4. Start services:

   docker compose -f docker-compose.quickstart.yml up
   

5. Open http://localhost:3000

Option B: Local Development

Requires Claude Code CLI, Docker, Python ≥3.11 + uv.

git clone <repo-url>
cd claude-agent-orchestrator
make start-all

Then start the Agent Runner in your project directory:

cd /path/to/your/project
/path/to/claude-agent-orchestrator/servers/agent-runner/agent-runner

Open http://localhost:3000

Stopping Services

# Containers
docker compose -f docker-compose.quickstart.yml down

# Local development
make stop-all

Repository Structure

├── README.md
├── Makefile                           # Build, run, deploy commands
├── docker-compose.yml                 # Full dev environment
├── docker-compose.quickstart.yml      # Minimal setup with pre-built images
│
├── docs/                              # Documentation
│   ├── ARCHITECTURE.md                # System architecture overview
│   ├── GETTING_STARTED.md             # Detailed setup guide
│   └── containers/                    # Container image documentation
│
├── servers/
│   ├── agent-coordinator/             # Session management, agent registry, SSE events
│   ├── agent-runner/                  # Polls coordinator, executes agent runs
│   │   ├── lib/agent_orchestrator_mcp/  # Embedded MCP server
│   │   └── executors/
│   │       └── claude-code/           # Claude Code executor (Agent SDK)
│   └── context-store/                 # Document storage server
│
├── mcps/                              # External MCP servers
│   ├── context-store/                 # Document management MCP
│   ├── neo4j/                         # Neo4j graph database MCP
│   ├── atlassian/                     # Jira + Confluence MCP
│   └── ado/                           # Azure DevOps MCP
│
├── apps/dashboard/                    # Web UI (React + Vite)
│
├── plugins/                           # Claude Code plugins
│   ├── orchestrator/                  # ao-* orchestration commands
│   └── context-store/                 # doc-* document commands
│
├── config/agents/                     # Agent blueprints
├── scripts/                           # Dev startup scripts
└── tests/                             # Integration tests

MCP Servers

Optional MCP servers in mcps/ extend agent capabilities (Neo4j, Atlassian, Azure DevOps, Context Store).

The Agent Orchestrator MCP is embedded in the Agent Runner and automatically available to running agents.

See mcps/README.md for setup and configuration.

Example Agents

The config/agents/ directory contains example agent blueprints demonstrating various patterns: web research, Atlassian/ADO integration, knowledge management, browser automation, and more.

See config/agents/README.md for the full list.

Context Store

Document storage server for sharing context between agents. Supports tagging, querying, and parent-child document relationships.

Optional semantic search enables finding documents by meaning (requires Ollama + Elasticsearch).

See servers/context-store/README.md for setup and API documentation.

Service URLs

Service	URL
Dashboard	http://localhost:3000
Agent Coordinator	http://localhost:8765
Context Store	http://localhost:8766

Testing