* docs: add 'become a sponsor' call-to-action linking to Discord
Now that there are a couple of sponsors, invite more: a short CTA under
the Sponsors section in the README and on the landing page, pointing to
the Discord to get in touch.
* fix(health): remove duplicate RegistryCheck declaration
Two PRs (#2957 and #2958) each added a RegistryCheck to the health
package, leaving the package uncompilable on master (RegistryCheck
redeclared: health/registry.go vs health/health.go). Keep the
health.go implementation — it honors the check's context timeout so a
hung registry (e.g. an unreachable etcd) reports down instead of
blocking the probe — and remove the duplicate registry.go and its test.
registry_check_test.go already covers healthy/down/nil/timeout/not-ready.
* feat(agent): pluggable memory and custom tools
Make agents compose the way services do — pluggable pieces with working
defaults — by adding the two abstractions an agent needs beyond the model:
- Memory: a pluggable interface for conversation memory. The default is
store-backed and durable across restarts (the previous hardcoded
behavior, now behind an interface); supply your own with WithMemory
(in-memory, database, semantic store). NewMemory / NewInMemory provided.
- Custom tools: WithTool registers any function as a tool the agent can
call, so agents are no longer limited to orchestrating RPC services.
Both exposed at the micro package (AgentMemory, AgentTool, NewMemory,
NewInMemory). Behavior-preserving refactor of the agent's history into
the default Memory; tests cover persistence, in-memory, clear, custom
tool dispatch and errors. README + AGENT_DESIGN document the pluggable
composition (model / memory / tools / guardrails).
* blog: 'Doubling Down on Agents' (#20)
The vision post for making agents a first-class framework the way
services were: opinionated, batteries-included, pluggable. Frames an
agent as a composition of model + memory + tools + guardrails with
working defaults; introduces the new pluggable memory and custom tools;
makes the microagents argument (an agent for everything, distributed
like microservices); and lays out the three primitives — services,
agents, workflows — as one substrate, with an honest list of the gaps
still to fill (knowledge/retrieval, streaming, explicit loop).
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Asim Aslam