Installation

Requirements

• Rust 1.88 or later

Adding agentkit to your project

cargo add agentkit

Or add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
agentkit = "0.2.2"

Minimal dependency set

By default, agentkit enables: core, capabilities, tools, task-manager, loop, and reporting.

To keep your build lean, disable defaults and pick only what you need:

[dependencies]
agentkit = { version = "0.2.2", default-features = false, features = ["core", "loop"] }

See the Feature flags reference for the full list.

Building from source

git clone https://github.com/danielkov/agentkit.git
cd agentkit
cargo build

Running the examples

The examples use OpenRouter as the model provider. Create a .env file in the repo root:

OPENROUTER_API_KEY=your_key_here
OPENROUTER_MODEL=openrouter/hunter-alpha

Then run any example:

cargo run -p openrouter-chat -- "hello"

The examples are referenced throughout this book. Each chapter points to the relevant example that exercises the concepts being discussed.