Quickstarts
Get started with Dapr Agents through practical step-by-step examples
Dapr Agents Quickstarts demonstrate how to use Dapr Agents to build applications with LLM-powered autonomous agents and event-driven workflows. Each quickstart builds upon the previous one, introducing new concepts incrementally.
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Quickstarts
| Scenario | What You’ll Learn |
|---|---|
| Dapr Agents Fundamentals An end-to-end introduction to the Dapr Agents programming model, progressing from basic LLM calls to durable agents, workflows, memory, tools, and tracing. | - LLM Clients and Agents: Call LLMs directly and wrap them in agents with roles and instructions - Tools and MCP: Invoke local tools and dynamically loaded MCP tools - Agent Memory: Persist and restore multi-turn conversation state - Durable Agents: Run agents as workflow-backed executions via HTTP or pub/sub - Deterministic Workflows: Build workflows with LLM and agent activities - Observability: Enable distributed tracing for agents and workflows with Zipkin |
| LLM Call with Dapr Chat Client Explore interaction with Language Models through Dapr Agents’ DaprChatClient, featuring basic text generation with plain text prompts and templates. | - Text Completion: Generating responses to prompts - Swapping LLM providers: Switching LLM backends without application code change - Resilience: Setting timeout, retry and circuit-breaking - PII Obfuscation: Automatically detect and mask sensitive user information |
| LLM Call with OpenAI Client Leverage native LLM client libraries with Dapr Agents using the OpenAI Client for chat completion, audio processing, and embeddings. | - Text Completion: Generating responses to prompts - Structured Outputs: Converting LLM responses to Pydantic objects Note: Other quickstarts for specific clients are available for Elevenlabs, Hugging Face, and Nvidia. |
| Standalone & Durable Agents Standalone Agent Tool Call · Durable Agent Tool Call | - Standalone Agents: Build conversational agents with tools in under 20 lines using the Agent class- Durable Agents: Upgrade to workflow-backed DurableAgent instances with AgentRunner.run/subscribe/serve- Tool Definition: Reuse tools with the @tool decorator and structured args models- Function Calling: Let LLMs invoke Python functions safely |
| Agentic Workflow Dive into stateful workflows with Dapr Agents by orchestrating sequential and parallel tasks through powerful workflow capabilities. | - LLM-powered Tasks: Using language models in workflows - Task Chaining: Creating resilient multi-step processes executing in sequence - Fan-out/Fan-in: Executing activities in parallel; then synchronizing these activities until all preceding activities have completed |
| Multi-Agent Workflows Explore advanced event-driven workflows featuring a Lord of the Rings themed multi-agent system where autonomous agents collaborate to solve problems. | - Multi-agent Systems: Creating a network of specialized agents - Event-driven Architecture: Implementing pub/sub messaging between agents - Workflow Orchestration: Coordinating agents through different selection strategies |
| Multi-Agent Workflow on Kubernetes Run multi-agent workflows in Kubernetes, demonstrating deployment and orchestration of event-driven agent systems in a containerized environment. | - Kubernetes Deployment: Running agents on Kubernetes - Container Orchestration: Managing agent lifecycles with K8s - Service Communication: Inter-agent communication in K8s |
| Document Agent with Chainlit Create a conversational agent with an operational UI that can upload, and learn unstructured documents while retaining long-term memory. | - Conversational Document Agent: Upload and converse over unstructured documents - Cloud Agnostic Storage: Upload files to multiple storage providers - Conversation Memory Storage: Persists conversation history using external storage. |
| Data Agent with MCP and Chainlit Build a conversational agent over a Postgres database using Model Composition Protocol (MCP) with a ChatGPT-like interface. | - Database Querying: Natural language queries to relational databases - MCP Integration: Connecting to databases without DB-specific code - Data Analysis: Complex data analysis through conversation |