ASTRA Programming Language

1. Getting Started

Quick Start
Check your setup

2. Programming with ASTRA

Guide overview
Understanding an agent
Representing knowledge
Writing plans
Designing goal-directed behaviour
Observing and acting
Handling uncertainty and failure
Managing ongoing activities
Reusing behaviour
Building cooperating agents
Testing, building and running
Debugging in VS Code

3. The ASTRA GUI

Using the GUI
Inspecting agents
Debugging with the GUI
Profiling and visualising
The AI assistant

4. Environments

Environments Overview
- Choose an environment interface
- Related guides
CArtAgO Environments
EIS Environments

5. LLM Integration

Introducing LLM Integration
Your First LLM Agent
Prompts, Responses and Beliefs
The Reasoning Architecture
Prompting and Chain of Thought
Pipelines
ReAct: Reasoning with Tools
MCP and Callable Goals
- Local goal registration
- Remote tools and conversation control
Unified Capabilities
Managing Reasoning Runs
Memory and Belief Context
Standalone and MAMS Integrations
Thread and Tree of Thoughts
Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Communication
Publishing an A2A Service
Calling A2A Services
LLM API Reference

6. Multi-Agent Microservices (MAMS)

Guide overview
Publish your first service
Manage resources
Decide how requests are handled
Connect services
Build a cooperating service
Test and deploy
Deploy on Kubernetes

7. Examples

Choose an example
- Use a project with its walkthrough
ASTRA examples
Coordination without LLMs
LLM examples
- Projects in this guide
- Projects in the LLM examples group
MAMS examples

8. Reference

AgentSpeak(L) Background
Syntax at a Glance
ASTRA API Reference Guide
Prewritten Protocols
Maven Plugin Options

9. About and Support

Publications
Report a Bug

ASTRA Programming Language

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