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Docker Agent — DevOps skill for Claude Code

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AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering.

How to install Docker Agent

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open rohitg00/docker-agent and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Docker Agent does

AI Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering.

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README

🤖 Docker Agent 🤖

Build, run, and share AI agents with a declarative YAML config, rich tool ecosystem, and multi-agent orchestration.

![docker agent in action](docs/demo.gif)

What is Docker Agent?

`docker-agent` lets you create and run intelligent AI agents that collaborate to solve complex problems — no code required.

`docker-agent` is a `docker` CLI plugin and can be run with `docker agent`.

Define agents in YAML, give them tools, and let them work.

agents:
  root:
    model: openai/gpt-5-mini
    description: A helpful AI assistant
    instruction: |
      You are a knowledgeable assistant that helps users with various tasks.
      Be helpful, accurate, and concise in your responses.
    toolsets:
      - type: mcp
        ref: docker:duckduckgo

docker agent run agent.yaml

Key Features

Multi-agent architecture — Create teams of specialized agents that delegate tasks automatically
Rich tool ecosystem — Built-in tools + any MCP server (local, remote, or Docker-based)
AI provider agnostic — OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Mistral, xAI, Docker Model Runner, and more
YAML configuration — Declarative, versionable, shareable
Advanced reasoning — Built-in think, todo, and memory tools
RAG — Pluggable retrieval with BM25, embeddings, hybrid search, and reranking
Package & share — Push agents to any OCI registry, pull and run them anywhere

Install

**Docker Desktop** (4.63+) — docker-agent CLI plugin is pre-installed. Just run `docker agent`.

**Homebrew** — `brew install docker-agent`. Run `docker-agent` directly or symlink the binary to `~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-agent` and run `docker agent`.

**Binary releases** — Download from [GitHub Releases](https://github.com/docker/docker-agent/releases). Symlink the `docker-agent` binary to `~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-agent` to be able to use `docker