Library / SDK
Agents & Orchestration
Dapr Agents
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the six Ws · specification
W1
Who
Maintained by the Dapr project (CNCF).
W2
What
Builds resilient, scalable agents on the Dapr runtime.
W3
Where
Runs on Dapr, across VMs or Kubernetes.
W4
When
When agents need durability and distributed scale.
W5
Why
Leverages Dapr's building blocks for reliable agents.
W6
With
The Dapr runtime and an LLM provider.
W7
Watch
Community-governed (CNCF/Dapr); open-source (Apache-2.0), self-hosted on your infrastructure. Calls the providers you configure.
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