bog-agents 0.8.1

Bog Agents — a still-water agent framework. Patient by default, opinionated where it matters, batteries included. Build agents on top of any major LLM provider (Anthropic, OpenAI, Bedrock, Google, Mistral, Groq, DeepSeek) or run local with Ollama. 80+ middlewares, real subagents, file-system + shell + sandbox backends, MCP tooling, a typed config surface. Built on LangGraph; pass through in harmony.

Bog Agents

Patient as still water. Opinionated where it matters. Pass through in harmony.

The Python SDK underneath bog-agents-cli and bog-agents-daemon — and an SDK in its own right when you want to build agents that aren't a CLI.

One create_agent() call gets you a compiled LangGraph agent with file tools, a shell, git, sub-agents, plan mode, auto-quality checks, retry-with-backoff against transient provider failures, and 80-something composable middlewares. Pluggable backends. Any tool-calling LLM. The defaults are deliberate — you ship something that works on day one without writing scaffolding.

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Philosophy

Most agent frameworks make you assemble the kit. We don't. Bog Agents starts you with a working agent and lets you peel away or bolt on layers as you understand what you actually need.

• Patient by default. Failures retry with bounded backoff. Hung commands time out. Provider hiccups don't kill the run.
• Opinionated where it matters. Secure-by-default backends, a memory-only secrets vault, structured logging at every chokepoint, panic dumps on uncaught exceptions.
• No ceremony. create_agent() returns a compiled CompiledStateGraph you can invoke. Plug it into your app. Done.
• Composable. 80+ middlewares snap on or off. Subagents nest. Backends swap. The framework gets out of your way.

The bog is calm, deep, and unhurried. So is the agent.

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Install

pip install bog-agents

Provider extras as needed:

pip install "bog-agents[anthropic]"      # Claude
pip install "bog-agents[openai]"         # GPT
pip install "bog-agents[bedrock]"        # AWS Bedrock
pip install "bog-agents[google-genai]"   # Gemini
pip install "bog-agents[ollama]"         # local models

Or all of them: pip install "bog-agents[all-providers]".

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30-second Quick Start

from bog_agents import create_agent

agent = create_agent(
    model="anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6",
    system_prompt="You are a careful, concise software engineer.",
)

result = await agent.ainvoke({
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "List Python files in this repo."}]
})

print(result["messages"][-1].content)

That gets you: filesystem tools, shell execution, sub-agents, plan-mode, summarization middleware, prompt caching for Anthropic models, and the standard tool-call patcher. No additional setup.

With more knobs

from bog_agents import create_agent, FeatureConfig
from bog_agents.middleware import (
    GitToolsMiddleware,
    MemoryMiddleware,
    ProviderRetryMiddleware,
    SkillsMiddleware,
)

agent = create_agent(
    model="anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-6",
    config=FeatureConfig(
        enable_audit_trail=True,
        enable_cost_tracking=True,
        budget_usd=5.0,
    ),
    middleware=[
        ProviderRetryMiddleware(max_attempts=3),
        GitToolsMiddleware(),
        MemoryMiddleware(sources=["./AGENTS.md"]),
        SkillsMiddleware(sources=["./skills"]),
    ],
)

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What's in the box

Backends

Pluggable filesystems and shells. Pick one or compose them.

Backend	Use when
StateBackend (default)	Agent reads / writes happen in graph state. Great for sandboxed tests.
FilesystemBackend	Real filesystem. Path traversal blocked by virtual_mode=True (the default since 0.8.0).
LocalShellBackend	Filesystem + shell execution on the host. UTF-8 stdout decoding, configurable timeouts, stdin=/dev/null so interactive prompts can't hang the agent.
CompositeBackend	Route different path prefixes to different backends.
SandboxBackend	Modal / Daytona / RunLoop / LangSmith remote sandboxes.

Middlewares (selected)

• ProviderRetryMiddleware — bounded exponential backoff with jitter on transient provider errors (5xx, timeouts, connection resets). Never retries tool calls.
• MemoryMiddleware — load AGENTS.md files into the system prompt. 64 KiB cap; </agent_memory> close-tags neutralized to prevent prompt-injection forgery.
• SkillsMiddleware — bundle reusable agent skills with metadata.
• GitToolsMiddleware — git status / log / diff / blame; opt-in commit / push.
• SubAgentMiddleware — recursive task decomposition with typed subagent specs.
• PlanModeMiddleware — structured plan-then-execute flow.
• SummarizationMiddleware — token-aware history compression.
• AnthropicPromptCachingMiddleware — automatic prompt-cache breakpoints.
• HumanInTheLoopMiddleware — pause-and-confirm for risky tool calls.
• AuditTrailMiddleware — structured records of every agent decision.
• RBACMiddleware / DLPMiddleware — access control + data-loss prevention.

Plus 60+ more for cost tracking, citations, hooks, MCP tools, agent teams, parallel worktrees, hot-reload skills, regulatory alerts, and more. Browse them under bog_agents.middleware.

Providers

Provider	Extra	Notes
Anthropic	anthropic	Default. Claude 4.6 / 4.7 with prompt caching.
OpenAI	openai	Responses API by default.
AWS Bedrock	bedrock	Claude / Llama / Titan via bedrock: prefix.
Google	google-genai	Gemini family.
Mistral	mistralai
Groq	groq
DeepSeek	deepseek
Fireworks	fireworks
Baseten	baseten
xAI	xai
Ollama	ollama	Local models.

Pass model="provider:model-id" and create_agent does the rest.

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Async first, sync if you want it

# Async — recommended
result = await agent.ainvoke({"messages": [...]})

# Sync — works fine too
result = agent.invoke({"messages": [...]})

Streaming is supported via the standard LangGraph stream APIs.

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What's new in 0.8.0

• ProviderRetryMiddleware — bounded retries on transient provider failures.
• virtual_mode=True is now the default for FilesystemBackend (and LocalShellBackend). Path traversal blocked unless explicitly opted out.
• Subprocess stdin=/dev/null in LocalShellBackend.execute() — interactive commands like Windows date get an immediate EOF instead of hanging.
• Typed subagent validation at create_agent() — typo'd name / description / system_prompt fails fast instead of surfacing as a KeyError later.
• FileOperationError Literal extended with parent_not_found.
• MemoryMiddleware caps each AGENTS.md source at 64 KiB and neutralizes </agent_memory> close-tags (prompt-injection defense).

See CHANGELOG.md for the full 0.8.0 entry.

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When to use this vs. the CLI

• Use the SDK when you're embedding an agent in a Python application, building your own UI, writing tests, or composing agents into a larger system.
• Use bog-agents-cli when you want a coding agent in your terminal right now with no Python wiring.
• Use bog-agents-daemon when you want agents that wake themselves on cron / file changes / webhooks / git pushes.

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Documentation

• Architecture overview: CLAUDE.md
• Middleware index: read the docstrings under bog_agents.middleware
• Sample agents: bog_agents/bundled_agents/
• Repo: https://github.com/bogware/bog-agents
• Issues: https://github.com/bogware/bog-agents/issues

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License

MIT. See LICENSE.

Pass through in harmony.