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Build your own AI agent from one sentence: set up Docker Agent in 5 minutes

Docker Agent turns an AI agent into one YAML file: a model, an instruction and the tools it may use, or a small team of agents that hand work to each other. This guide gets it running and builds your first agent from a single sentence.

  • A ready prompt that lets your coding agent set up Docker Agent for you
  • Install, connect a model and build your first agent in four commands
  • 5 steps with screenshots, including a small team of agents
  • What it really costs and fixes for the errors people hit
A look inside

What's inside

1

The agent prompt

Paste one prompt into Claude Code or Codex and it installs Docker Agent, checks your model and builds your first agent.

2

Pick your model path

Pay per token, run a local model for free, or use the Claude subscription you already have. Here is how each one works.

3

From one agent to a team

A few lines of YAML turn one agent into a coordinator that hands jobs to a researcher and a writer.

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Good to know

Questions, answered

Is this guide free?

Yes. You sign up with your email once and get this guide plus every other guide in the library.

Is Docker Agent free?

Yes. Docker Agent is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. You pay for the model you choose: cloud models per token at the provider, local models through Docker Model Runner cost nothing once downloaded, and the Claude Code harness uses your existing Claude subscription. Docker Desktop itself is free for personal use and for companies with fewer than 250 employees and less than $10 million in annual revenue.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. An agent is a YAML file with a model, an instruction and a list of tools, and docker agent new writes that file for you from a sentence. You do need to be comfortable typing a few commands in a terminal.

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