https://go-steer.github.io/core-agent/docs/Recent content in Documentation on core-agentHugoen-ushttps://go-steer.github.io/core-agent/docs/getting-started/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://go-steer.github.io/core-agent/docs/getting-started/<h2 id="install">Install</h2> <h3 id="as-a-cli-go-toolchain">As a CLI (Go toolchain)</h3> <p>Requires Go 1.26 or newer.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl">go install github.com/go-steer/core-agent/cmd/core-agent@latest </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The binary lands in <code>$(go env GOBIN)</code> (or <code>$GOPATH/bin</code> if <code>GOBIN</code> is unset). Make sure that&rsquo;s on your <code>$PATH</code>.</p> <h3 id="as-a-pre-built-binary-no-go-toolchain-needed">As a pre-built binary (no Go toolchain needed)</h3> <p>Cross-compiled archives for <code>linux/darwin × amd64/arm64</code> are published on the <a href="https://github.com/go-steer/core-agent/releases/latest">Releases page</a>, signed via Sigstore keyless.</p> <div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nv">TAG</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$(</span>gh release view --repo go-steer/core-agent --json tagName -q .tagName<span class="k">)</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nv">OS</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$(</span>uname -s <span class="p">|</span> tr A-Z a-z<span class="k">)</span> <span class="c1"># linux | darwin</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="k">$(</span>uname -m <span class="p">|</span> sed <span class="s1">&#39;s/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/&#39;</span><span class="k">)</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">gh release download <span class="s2">&#34;</span><span class="nv">$TAG</span><span class="s2">&#34;</span> --repo go-steer/core-agent <span class="se">\ </span></span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl"> --pattern <span class="s2">&#34;core-agent_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">TAG</span><span class="p">#v</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">OS</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">.tar.gz&#34;</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">tar xzf <span class="s2">&#34;core-agent_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">TAG</span><span class="p">#v</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">OS</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">_</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">ARCH</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">.tar.gz&#34;</span> </span></span><span class="line"><span class="cl">./core-agent --version </span></span></code></pre></div><p>The <code>core-agent-tui</code> remote client uses the same naming pattern (swap <code>core-agent</code> for <code>core-agent-tui</code>).</p>https://go-steer.github.io/core-agent/docs/why-core-agent/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://go-steer.github.io/core-agent/docs/why-core-agent/<p>If you&rsquo;re building an agent in Go, your starting point is the <a href="https://pkg.go.dev/google.golang.org/adk">Google Agent Development Kit</a> (ADK). ADK gives you a model interface, a tool-calling loop, a session abstraction, and some streaming primitives. That&rsquo;s roughly 30% of what a production agent needs. <code>core-agent</code> is the other 70% — the parts every team writes the second they take an ADK demo from &ldquo;responds to my prompt&rdquo; to &ldquo;I&rsquo;d let a real user touch this.&rdquo;</p>