TL;DR: RunAgent turns your Python AI agents into multi-language APIs with zero infrastructure headaches. Write once in Python, use everywhere.

The “Aha!” Moment: Why RunAgent Exists

Picture this: You’ve built an amazing LangGraph agent in Python. It works perfectly. Now your frontend team (JavaScript), your systems team (Rust), and your mobile team (Go) all want to use it. The old way:
  • Build REST APIs manually
  • Handle streaming responses with WebSockets
  • Manage authentication and error handling
  • Duplicate logic across languages
  • Deploy and scale infrastructure yourself
The RunAgent way:
# Your Python agent stays exactly as it is
def my_agent(query: str) -> str:
    return langgraph_agent.invoke(query)
// Your JavaScript team uses it natively
const result = await client.run({ query: "Hello!" });
// Your Rust team gets the same experience
let result = client.run(&[("query", json!("Hello!"))]).await?;
// Run the Go agent
result, err := agentClient.Run(ctx, map[string]interface{}{
	"query": "Hello!",
	})
That’s the magic ✨

Understanding Agents in RunAgent

An agent in RunAgent isn’t just code—it’s a complete, deployable AI application that can:

Process Intelligently

Handle complex reasoning, tool use, and multi-step workflows

Scale Automatically

From single requests to thousands of concurrent users

Stream Responses

Real-time output for interactive experiences

Stay Secure

Isolated execution with secrets management

The Agent Lifecycle: From Code to Production

Entrypoints: The Heart of RunAgent

Here’s where RunAgent gets interesting. Entrypoints are your gateway from the outside world into your Python agent logic.

The Magic of Function Mapping

Think of entrypoints as universal translators:
def solve_problem(question: str, difficulty: str = "medium") -> str:
    """Your agent logic here"""
    return langgraph_agent.invoke({
        "question": question,
        "difficulty": difficulty
    })

Entrypoint Types: Choose Your Adventure

TypeWhen to UseInput/OutputBest For
StandardMost use casesdict → dictChat, analysis, processing
StreamingReal-time responsesdict → Iterator[str]Long-form generation, live updates
CustomYour exact functionyour_params → your_returnMaximum flexibility
Pro Tip: Streaming entrypoints must have tags ending with _stream. This tells RunAgent to handle real-time data flow differently.

Streaming: The Real-Time Superpower

Here’s what makes RunAgent’s streaming special:
def generate_story(prompt: str, style: str) -> Iterator[str]:
    """Stream a story as it's being generated"""
    for chunk in llm.stream(f"Write a {style} story about: {prompt}"):
        yield chunk.content
What happens behind the scenes: The beautiful part? Your JavaScript, Rust, or Go client receives these chunks in real-time, exactly as if the function was running locally in their language.

Configuration: Your Agent’s Blueprint

The runagent.config.json file is where the magic happens. It’s the contract between your Python code and the outside world:
{
  "agent_name": "problem-solver",
  "description": "Solves complex problems with reasoning",
  "framework": "langgraph",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "agent_architecture": {
    "entrypoints": [
      {
        "file": "agent.py",
        "module": "solve_problem",
        "tag": "solve"
      },
      {
        "file": "agent.py", 
        "module": "generate_story",
        "tag": "story_stream"
      }
    ]
  },
  "env_vars": {
    "OPENAI_API_KEY": "${OPENAI_API_KEY}",
    "CUSTOM_SETTING": "production"
  }
}

Breaking Down the Configuration

The bridges between your Python functions and external access:
  • file: Where your function lives
  • module: The exact function name
  • tag: What others use to call it (like a nickname)

Multi-Language SDK Magic

This is where RunAgent truly shines. Here’s what happens when you call your agent from different languages:

The Universal Translation Layer

Language-Native Experience

Each SDK provides idiomatic experiences:
# Feels like calling a local function
client = RunAgentClient(agent_id="agent_123", tag="solve")

result = client.run(
    question="Explain relativity",
    difficulty="intermediate"
)

# Streaming feels natural too
for chunk in client.run_stream(prompt="Write a poem"):
    print(chunk, end="")

Execution Modes: Local to Global

Local Development: Your Playground

runagent serve .
What this gives you:
  • 🔄 Hot reload: Changes reflect immediately
  • 📊 Direct logging: See everything in your terminal
  • 🐛 Easy debugging: Step through code normally
  • Fast iteration: No deployment overhead
Perfect for development, testing, and experimentation.

Production Deployment: Scale Without Limits

runagent deploy .  # Coming soon
What production unlocks:
  • 🚀 Auto-scaling: Handle 1 or 1,000,000 requests
  • 🔒 Security: Sandboxed, isolated execution
  • 📈 Monitoring: Real-time metrics and logging
  • 🌍 Global: Deploy close to your users

Framework Freedom: Bring Your Own AI

RunAgent doesn’t care what AI framework you use. If it’s Python, it works:
from langgraph import StateGraph

# Your complex multi-agent workflow
workflow = StateGraph(AgentState)
workflow.add_node("analyzer", analyze_node)
workflow.add_node("researcher", research_node)

app = workflow.compile()

def process_query(query: str) -> dict:
    return app.invoke({"query": query})

The Communication Layer: How It All Works

Under the hood, RunAgent handles the complex networking so you don’t have to:

Request Flow

Key insight: You write normal Python functions. RunAgent automatically handles:
  • HTTP/WebSocket protocol management
  • Request/response serialization
  • Error handling and retries
  • Connection pooling and load balancing

Security & Isolation: Production-Ready by Default

Common Patterns: Real-World Agent Architectures

Understanding these patterns will help you design agents that feel natural to use from any programming language.

State Management: The Chat Agent Pattern

The Challenge: Most AI conversations need memory. How do you maintain context across multiple API calls while keeping your agent stateless? The RunAgent Solution: Use external state storage with conversation IDs. Your entrypoint becomes a stateless function that loads, processes, and saves state.
def chat_agent(message: str, conversation_id: str = None) -> dict:
    """Stateful conversation agent"""
    # Load conversation history
    history = get_conversation(conversation_id) if conversation_id else []
    
    # Add user message
    history.append({"role": "user", "content": message})
    
    # Generate response
    response = llm.chat(history)
    
    # Save updated history
    save_conversation(conversation_id, history + [response])
    
    return {
        "message": response.content,
        "conversation_id": conversation_id or generate_id()
    }
Why this works: Each language’s SDK can maintain the conversation_id and pass it with every request. Your Python agent stays stateless but provides stateful behavior.

Tool Integration: The Agentic Workflow Pattern

The Challenge: Modern AI agents need to use external tools—search engines, calculators, APIs. How do you expose this capability cleanly? The RunAgent Solution: Design your entrypoint to accept tool configurations and return rich metadata about what happened.
def tool_agent(query: str, available_tools: list = None) -> dict:
    """Agent that can use external tools"""
    tools = load_tools(available_tools or ["search", "calculator"])
    
    # Let the agent decide which tools to use
    plan = planner.create_plan(query, tools)
    
    results = []
    for step in plan.steps:
        if step.tool:
            result = tools[step.tool].execute(step.params)
            results.append(result)
    
    # Synthesize final response
    final_response = synthesizer.combine(query, results)
    
    return {
        "response": final_response,
        "tools_used": [step.tool for step in plan.steps if step.tool],
        "intermediate_results": results
    }
Why this pattern matters: Clients can see exactly what tools were used and get intermediate results. Perfect for building transparent, debuggable AI applications.

Progressive Disclosure: The Streaming Analysis Pattern

The Challenge: Long-running analysis tasks feel unresponsive. Users want to see progress and partial results. The RunAgent Solution: Use streaming entrypoints to provide real-time updates and partial results as work progresses.
def analyze_document(document: str, analysis_type: str) -> Iterator[str]:
    """Stream analysis results as they're generated"""
    yield f"🔍 Starting {analysis_type} analysis...\n\n"
    
    # Break document into chunks
    chunks = chunk_document(document)
    
    for i, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
        yield f"📄 Analyzing section {i+1}/{len(chunks)}...\n"
        
        analysis = analyzer.analyze(chunk, analysis_type)
        yield f"**Section {i+1} Summary:**\n{analysis}\n\n"
    
    yield "✅ Analysis complete!\n"
The magic: Users see progress in real-time across all languages. A JavaScript frontend can show a progress bar, while a Rust CLI tool can print updates—all from the same Python agent.

Best Practices: Building Production-Ready Agents

These aren’t just coding tips—they’re architectural principles that determine whether your agent scales from prototype to production.

Design Philosophy: Think Beyond Python

The Mindset Shift: You’re not just writing Python functions anymore. You’re designing APIs that will be used by teams working in different languages, with different expectations and patterns. Key Principle: Your entrypoint design affects how natural your agent feels in every supported language.

🔄 Stateless by Design

Functions should be independent—no global state that persists between calls

🎯 Predictable Outputs

Same input should always produce the same output (idempotent operations)

🛡️ Graceful Degradation

Handle errors in ways that make sense to clients in any language

⚡ Resource Conscious

Respect memory and time limits—your agent shares infrastructure

Performance Architecture: Load Once, Use Forever

The Problem: Many developers load models or initialize connections inside their entrypoint functions. This creates terrible performance. The Solution: Use module-level initialization or singleton patterns to load expensive resources once.
# ✅ Excellent: Load models at module level
from transformers import pipeline

# This runs once when the module is imported
sentiment_analyzer = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")
search_client = SearchClient(api_key=os.getenv("SEARCH_API_KEY"))

def analyze_sentiment(text: str) -> dict:
    """This entrypoint reuses pre-loaded resources"""
    result = sentiment_analyzer(text)
    return {
        "sentiment": result[0]["label"],
        "confidence": result[0]["score"]
    }

# ❌ Terrible: Loading models repeatedly
def analyze_sentiment_bad(text: str) -> dict:
    # This runs on EVERY request - horrible performance!
    analyzer = pipeline("sentiment-analysis")  
    result = analyzer(text)
    return {"sentiment": result[0]["label"]}
Why this matters: When your agent is called 1000 times per minute from multiple languages, that initialization time becomes your bottleneck.

Error Handling: Design for Multi-Language Debugging

The Challenge: A JavaScript developer calling your Python agent needs to understand what went wrong, even though they can’t see your Python stack trace. The Solution: Return structured, actionable error information that makes sense across language boundaries.
def robust_agent(query: str) -> dict:
    """Error handling that works across all languages"""
    try:
        # Validate inputs early
        if not query or len(query.strip()) == 0:
            return {
                "success": False,
                "error_code": "EMPTY_QUERY",
                "message": "Query cannot be empty",
                "retry_possible": True,
                "suggested_action": "Provide a non-empty query string"
            }
        
        result = process_query(query)
        return {
            "success": True,
            "data": result,
            "processing_time": timer.elapsed()
        }
        
    except ValidationError as e:
        return {
            "success": False,
            "error_code": "VALIDATION_ERROR",
            "message": f"Invalid input: {str(e)}",
            "retry_possible": True,
            "invalid_fields": e.fields if hasattr(e, 'fields') else []
        }
    except RateLimitError as e:
        return {
            "success": False,
            "error_code": "RATE_LIMITED",
            "message": "Too many requests",
            "retry_possible": True,
            "retry_after_seconds": e.retry_after
        }
    except Exception as e:
        logger.error(f"Unexpected error in robust_agent: {e}", exc_info=True)
        return {
            "success": False,
            "error_code": "INTERNAL_ERROR", 
            "message": "An unexpected error occurred",
            "retry_possible": False,
            "request_id": generate_request_id()
        }
The payoff: Developers in any language can write proper error handling and provide good user experiences, even when your Python agent encounters problems.

Input/Output Design: Think Like an API Designer

Core Principle: Your entrypoint signatures become API contracts. Design them as carefully as you would design a REST API. Good Design Patterns:
# ✅ Clear, self-documenting parameters
def search_and_summarize(
    query: str,
    max_results: int = 10,
    summary_length: str = "medium"  # "short", "medium", "long"
) -> dict:
    return {
        "summary": "...",
        "sources": [...],
        "total_results_found": 150,
        "results_used": 10
    }

# ✅ Rich return types with metadata
def process_document(document_content: str, options: dict = None) -> dict:
    return {
        "processed_content": "...",
        "statistics": {
            "word_count": 1500,
            "reading_time_minutes": 6,
            "complexity_score": 0.7
        },
        "metadata": {
            "processing_version": "2.1.0",
            "timestamp": datetime.utcnow().isoformat()
        }
    }
Why this matters: Clean APIs feel natural in every language and make your agent a joy to integrate with.

What’s Next: Your RunAgent Journey

Now that you understand the core concepts, here’s your path forward:
Remember: RunAgent’s superpower is making your Python AI agents accessible from any programming language with native-feeling APIs. Focus on building great agents—we’ll handle the rest! 🎯