* docs: map go-micro onto Anthropic's workflows-vs-agents taxonomy
- new guide 'Agents and Workflows': adopts Anthropic's Building Effective
Agents vocabulary — workflow (predefined path) = flow, agent (dynamic
self-direction) = agent — maps the augmented-LLM building block and the
five workflow patterns onto go-micro, and shows routing (chat router)
and orchestrator-workers (conductor + plan/delegate) are already native.
- flow package doc reframed as a workflow (predefined path) per the same
taxonomy, with guidance on flow vs agent.
- nav + README link the new guide.
* feat: agent guardrails — step limit and tool approval hook
Anthropic's Building Effective Agents stresses stopping conditions and
human-in-the-loop checkpoints for autonomous agents. Add both as plain
options enforced at the tool-handler choke point — no provider changes,
no new abstraction:
- MaxSteps(n): bound tool executions per Ask; beyond the limit, actions
are refused and the model is told to stop and summarize.
- ApproveTool(fn): gate each action before it runs; returning false
blocks it and surfaces the reason to the model. The internal plan tool
is never gated.
Exposed at the micro package (AgentMaxSteps, AgentApproveTool, ApproveFunc).
Tests cover the limit, blocking, and that plan is not gated. Guardrails
section of the agents-and-workflows guide updated from 'active work' to
documented options.
* feat: flow can dispatch to an agent (flow triggers, agent reasons)
Unify the engine without collapsing the workflow/agent distinction. A
Flow with Agent set hands each event's rendered prompt to a named
registered agent over RPC (Agent.Chat) instead of running its own LLM
step — so the workflow stays the deterministic trigger and the agent is
the reasoning engine, with its plan, delegate, memory, and guardrails.
A plain flow is unchanged (single augmented-LLM step).
- flow.Agent(name) / micro.FlowAgent(name); flow stores the client and
skips model setup when dispatching.
- test: dispatch routes to comms.Agent.Chat with the rendered prompt and
records the reply.
- guide: 'Flow triggers, Agent reasons' section.
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* docs: Agent interface design sketch
Proposes Agent as a top-level abstraction alongside Service in the
micro package. Agent manages services — scoped tools, system prompt,
conversation memory, registry-discoverable.
Design only, no implementation.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: Agent as a first-class abstraction
Introduce micro.NewAgent() alongside micro.New() — Agent is to
intelligence what Service is to capability.
Agent interface:
- Chat(ctx, message) (*Response, error) — core interaction method
- Run() — registers in registry, subscribes to broker, blocks
- Stop() — graceful shutdown
- Scoped tools — only sees endpoints of its assigned services
- Persistent memory — conversation history stored in store
- Agent-to-agent — communication via broker topics
Top-level API:
agent := micro.NewAgent("task-mgr",
micro.AgentServices("task"),
micro.AgentPrompt("You manage tasks."),
micro.AgentProvider("anthropic"),
)
agent.Run()
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: wire agents into chat router, add micro agent CLI, expose Flow
Three top-level abstractions:
micro.New("task") — Service (capability)
micro.NewAgent("task-mgr") — Agent (intelligence)
micro.NewFlow("onboard-user") — Flow (event-driven orchestration)
micro chat as router:
- Discovers agents from registry on startup
- Single agent: routes directly
- Multiple agents: LLM classifies intent, dispatches to right agent
via route_to_agent tool
- No agents: falls back to current direct-service behaviour
- Banner shows discovered agents
micro agent CLI:
- micro agent list — shows registered agents and their services
- micro agent describe <name> — shows agent details from registry
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: move flow to top level, update docs for three abstractions
Package structure now consistent:
service/ — Service (capability)
agent/ — Agent (intelligence)
flow/ — Flow (event-driven orchestration)
ai/flow/ kept as backward-compatible re-export.
Updated across all surfaces:
- CLAUDE.md: added agent/ and flow/ to project structure
- README: added "Building Agents" section with NewAgent() examples,
updated features table (Agents, Flows, Chat router), CLI table
(agent list, agent describe), docs links
- Website: features grid shows Services, Agents, Flows as the three
pillars alongside generation, MCP, and pluggable architecture
- micro.go: Flow imported from top-level flow/ package
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* docs: rewrite getting-started, fix ai-integration import paths
Getting started now covers all three abstractions:
- Service (write handlers, micro run, templates)
- Agent (micro.NewAgent, scoped tools, memory, CLI)
- Flow (event-driven LLM orchestration)
Leads with prompt-based generation, then manual service creation.
ai-integration.md: fixed flow import path from go-micro.dev/v5/ai/flow
to go-micro.dev/v5/flow, updated stack diagram to show agent/flow/chat.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* blog: Introducing micro.NewAgent()
Post 16 — announces Agent as a first-class abstraction. Shows the
API (NewAgent, AgentServices, AgentPrompt, AgentProvider), scoped
tools, persistent memory, multi-service agents, multi-agent systems,
and the three-abstraction comparison table (Service/Agent/Flow).
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: fix agent registration, blog post 16
Agent registration:
- Add node with address so mDNS can discover agents
- Store type and services in node metadata (mDNS requirement)
- Connect broker before subscribing, non-fatal if broker unavailable
- Print registration confirmation on Run()
Agent/chat discovery:
- Check both service-level and node-level metadata for type=agent
(mDNS stores metadata on nodes, not services)
Blog post 16: "Introducing micro.NewAgent()" — announces the Agent
abstraction with code examples, comparison table, multi-agent patterns.
Tested end-to-end: micro run → micro agent list discovers the agent →
micro chat routes to it → agent calls service endpoints.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: agents are proper services with RPC Chat endpoint
Refactored agent to use server.Server instead of fake registry entries.
An agent now:
- Creates a real RPC server with server.Name(agentName)
- Registers an Agent.Chat handler callable via standard RPC
- Sets server metadata type=agent, services=x,y for discovery
- No more fake addresses or broker hacks
micro chat calls agents via RPC (client.Call) instead of creating
local agent instances. The registry stays clean — agents are real
services with real endpoints.
Removed broker dependency from agent options. Agent-to-agent
communication is just RPC like everything else.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: agent uses proto-defined RPC interface
Added agent/proto/agent.proto with Agent service definition:
rpc Chat(ChatRequest) returns (ChatResponse)
Agent now implements the generated AgentHandler interface and
registers via pb.RegisterAgentHandler. The Chat endpoint is a
standard proto-based RPC callable by any go-micro client.
Renamed the programmatic API from Chat() to Ask() to avoid
collision with the proto handler method name.
micro chat calls agents via standard RPC with JSON-encoded
request/response — no special types needed on the caller side.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
* feat: generate agent alongside services, update all docs
micro run --prompt now generates an agent binary that manages all
the generated services. The agent reads MICRO_AI_PROVIDER and
MICRO_AI_API_KEY from the environment. micro run propagates these
when started with --prompt.
Run banner shows services and agents separately.
Updated README, getting-started guide, and landing page to show
the complete flow: generate → services + agent start → micro chat
routes to agent → agent orchestrates services.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01QTp4SshuVmLAvvEGJe4TJd
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* docs: update all four documentation guides and mark Q2 complete
- ai-native-services: add WithMCP one-liner, standalone gateway,
WebSocket client example, and OpenTelemetry observability section
- mcp-security: add OTel distributed tracing, WebSocket authentication
(connection-level and per-message), DeniedReason audit field
- tool-descriptions: add manual overrides with WithEndpointDocs and
export formats section
- agent-patterns: add LangChain/LlamaIndex SDK pattern and standalone
gateway production pattern with Docker example
- Update roadmap: mark Q2 documentation as complete, Q2 at 100%
- Update status: reflect all recent completions, shift priorities
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* feat: add agent demo example and blog post
Add examples/agent-demo with a multi-service project management app
(projects, tasks, team) that demonstrates AI agents interacting with
Go Micro services through MCP. Includes seed data and example prompts.
Add blog post 4 "Agents Meet Microservices: A Hands-On Demo" walking
through the example code and showing cross-service agent workflows.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* feat: enable multiple services in a single binary
Remove global state mutations from service and cmd option functions so
that configuring one service no longer overwrites another's settings.
Key changes:
- service/options.go: remove all DefaultXxx global writes from option
functions; newOptions() now creates fresh Server, Client, Store, and
Cache per service while sharing Registry, Broker, and Transport
- cmd/cmd.go: newCmd() uses local copies instead of pointers to package
globals; Before() no longer mutates DefaultXxx vars
- cmd/options.go: remove global mutations from all option functions
- service/service.go: export ServiceImpl type for cross-package use
- service/group.go: new Group type for multi-service lifecycle
- micro.go: add Start/Stop to Service interface, expose Group and
NewGroup convenience function
- examples/multi-service: working example with two services
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* docs: highlight multi-service binary support
Add multi-service section to README with code example, update features
list, add to examples index, and note in status summary.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* feat: unify service API and clean up developer experience
- Unified service creation: micro.New("name", opts...) as canonical API
- Clean handler registration: service.Handle(handler, opts...) accepts
server.HandlerOption args directly, no need to reach through Server()
- Unexported serviceImpl: users interact through Service interface only
- Service groups use Service interface (not concrete type)
- Fixed Stop() to properly propagate BeforeStop/AfterStop errors
- Fixed store init: error-level log instead of fatal on init failure
- Updated all examples to use consistent patterns
- Updated README, getting-started, MCP docs, and guides
- Added blog post about the DX cleanup
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
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* docs: update all four documentation guides and mark Q2 complete
- ai-native-services: add WithMCP one-liner, standalone gateway,
WebSocket client example, and OpenTelemetry observability section
- mcp-security: add OTel distributed tracing, WebSocket authentication
(connection-level and per-message), DeniedReason audit field
- tool-descriptions: add manual overrides with WithEndpointDocs and
export formats section
- agent-patterns: add LangChain/LlamaIndex SDK pattern and standalone
gateway production pattern with Docker example
- Update roadmap: mark Q2 documentation as complete, Q2 at 100%
- Update status: reflect all recent completions, shift priorities
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* feat: add agent demo example and blog post
Add examples/agent-demo with a multi-service project management app
(projects, tasks, team) that demonstrates AI agents interacting with
Go Micro services through MCP. Includes seed data and example prompts.
Add blog post 4 "Agents Meet Microservices: A Hands-On Demo" walking
through the example code and showing cross-service agent workflows.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* feat: enable multiple services in a single binary
Remove global state mutations from service and cmd option functions so
that configuring one service no longer overwrites another's settings.
Key changes:
- service/options.go: remove all DefaultXxx global writes from option
functions; newOptions() now creates fresh Server, Client, Store, and
Cache per service while sharing Registry, Broker, and Transport
- cmd/cmd.go: newCmd() uses local copies instead of pointers to package
globals; Before() no longer mutates DefaultXxx vars
- cmd/options.go: remove global mutations from all option functions
- service/service.go: export ServiceImpl type for cross-package use
- service/group.go: new Group type for multi-service lifecycle
- micro.go: add Start/Stop to Service interface, expose Group and
NewGroup convenience function
- examples/multi-service: working example with two services
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
* docs: highlight multi-service binary support
Add multi-service section to README with code example, update features
list, add to examples index, and note in status summary.
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GkduEhcrqcG45rdfYh8dAc
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
* Update http.go
Exit before deregister is executed
* Create http.go
Exit before deregister is executed
* Solve the problem that the resources have not been fully released due to early exit
* Optimize some code
* Optimize some code
* Optimize some code
* fix service default logger
Asim Aslam