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Overview

Build, deploy, and manage AI agents with Astropods
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Astropods is a platform for building, deploying, and managing AI agents. It provides agent-native infrastructure for models, knowledge, tools, messaging, and observability.

With Astropods, you can develop an agent locally, publish it as a versioned blueprint, and deploy it as a hosted agent.

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Quickstart

Create an agent project, run it locally, and test your first agent

The agent lifecycle

Learn how a local project becomes a blueprint and then a running agent

Install the CLI

Install the ast CLI for your platform

Publish a blueprint

Build and push a versioned snapshot of your project to the registry

Deploy an agent

Deploy a blueprint as a hosted agent

Explore Astropods

AI Gateway

Call managed models through an OpenAI-compatible API without a provider key

Guides

Follow task-based guides for frontends, storage, MCP servers, authorization, and more

Messaging SDK

Connect agents to Slack, web chat, and other platforms over gRPC

Knowledge stores

Connect data sources and make knowledge available to your agents

Remote Sandbox

How sandboxes run your agent’s code in an isolated virtual machine

Monitor your agents

Inspect token usage, tool calls, latency, and other runtime activity

CLI reference

Find commands for projects, blueprints, agents, accounts, and other resources

API reference

Use the REST API behind the CLI and dashboard

Core concepts

  • Project — A local agent codebase with an astropods.yml spec. Use ast project create to create a project, ast project configure to set credentials, and ast project start to run it locally.

  • Astropods Spec — The declarative YAML configuration in astropods.yml that describes an agent’s topology, including its container image, models, knowledge stores, tools, and ingestion pipelines. See Astropods Spec.

  • Blueprint — A versioned snapshot of a project pushed to the Astropods registry with ast blueprint push.

  • Agent — A running instance of a blueprint deployed on the platform. Deploy an agent with ast blueprint deploy and manage it with ast agent commands.

  • Account — The scope for Astropods platform resources. Blueprints, agents, and secrets belong to an account.

  • Secrets — Encrypted credentials stored in the account vault and referenced when you deploy an agent.

  • Agent Card — An AGENT.md file that controls how a blueprint appears in the catalog, including its description, tags, authors, and integrations. See Make your agent discoverable.