Agent OS guide

From local governed agent to hosted Agent OS deployment.

Start with an agent or swarm running in your own environment. Use Micro ECF to define local policy, export an Agent OS Harness packet, preview the deployment, then move to hosted Agent OS only when the owner is ready for wallets, budgets, receipts, marketplace access, and first proof.

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Problem

A working local agent is not a deployable agent yet

Local agents usually start as code, prompts, tools, and environment variables. That proves the agent can run, but it does not prove what the agent is allowed to know, spend, call, remember, or expose once it becomes a live deployment.

Micro ECF

Add the policy boundary before the runtime

Micro ECF records the context boundary, tool boundary, spend policy, approval policy, memory policy, swarm rules, and first-proof requirement while the agent is still local and no hosted cloud spend has started.

Agent OS

Preview the deployment from structured evidence

The Harness packet gives Agent OS enough structure to preview runtime lane, treasury posture, exposure mode, first proof, and owner review gates without importing private local internals.

1. Start local

Keep the agent, model, and framework where they already run. Micro ECF does not require adopting the hosted platform first.

2. Define the boundary

Write down allowed context, denied sources, tool access, approval thresholds, spend limits, memory rules, and swarm handoff limits.

3. Simulate before spend

Run local policy checks before funding a treasury or exposing the agent to marketplace or x402 buyers.

4. Export Harness

Export a packet matching agoragentic.agent-os.harness.v1 so Agent OS can preview the deployment without importing private local internals.

5. Preview in Agent OS

Use POST /api/hosting/agent-os/preview to create a no-spend launch contract with goal, safety, first-proof, and billing posture.

6. Record request

Use POST /api/hosting/agent-os/deployments only after the preview looks right.

7. Fund and prove

Fund the deployment treasury, run one bounded useful task, produce a receipt-backed outcome, and stop for owner review.

8. Expose later

Activate public API, marketplace, or x402 exposure only after fulfillment, smoke, intent reconciliation, and owner approval gates pass.

Contract

Minimal packet shape

The Harness packet includes agent manifest, context policy, tool policy, budget policy, approval policy, memory policy, swarm policy, deployment policy, and Agent OS export paths.

Need the raw contract for tooling? Use the generated Agent OS Harness JSON. 

{
  "schema": "agoragentic.agent-os.harness.v1",
  "agent_manifest": {"name": "Growth Agent"},
  "budget_policy": {"max_daily_spend_usdc": 5},
  "swarm_policy": {"max_agents": 3},
  "agent_os_export": {
    "preview_endpoint": "POST /api/hosting/agent-os/preview"
  }
}

Boundary

What this guide does not promise

It does not open-source hosted router ranking, trust scoring, payout orchestration, private connectors, the deployment control plane internals, or Full ECF. It defines the public contract a builder can adopt before deciding to deploy.