lughus

Micro-framework for building A2A agents with LiteLLM. Register tools, run an agentic loop, get a result. No graphs, no runners, no magic.

Install

pip install lughus              # Core (litellm, python-dotenv, jsonschema)
pip install lughus[server]      # + FastAPI, uvicorn, a2a-sdk
pip install lughus[all]         # Everything

Quick Start

A complete agent in one script. Register a tool, call agent_loop, get the LLM's response:

import asyncio
import json

from lughus import ToolRegistry, agent_loop
from lughus.testing import MockLLM


# 1. Create a tool registry and register a tool
registry = ToolRegistry()


@registry.tool(
    "greet",
    "Greet a user by name.",
    {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
            "name": {"type": "string", "description": "Name to greet"},
        },
        "required": ["name"],
        "additionalProperties": False,
    },
)
def greet(*, name: str, state) -> str:
    return json.dumps({"greeting": f"Hello, {name}!"})


# 2. Create an LLM (MockLLM for offline testing, LLM for production)
llm = MockLLM(
    [
        # Turn 1: LLM calls the greet tool
        [{"name": "greet", "arguments": {"name": "World"}, "id": "call_1"}],
        # Turn 2: LLM produces a text response (ends the loop)
        "Hello, World!",
    ]
)


# 3. Run the agent loop
async def main():
    result = await agent_loop(
        llm,
        system="You are a greeting assistant. Use the greet tool.",
        context="Say hello to World",
        registry=registry,
        tool_names=["greet"],
        state=None,
    )
    print(result)  # "Hello, World!"
    print(f"{result.iterations} iterations, {result.total_tokens} tokens")


asyncio.run(main())

For production, swap MockLLM for a real LLM:

from lughus import LLM

llm = LLM(model="openai/gpt-4o", max_output_tokens=16384)

Features

• agent_loop() -- iterates LLM + tools until a text response, with parallel tool execution
• agent_loop_stream() -- same, but yields text chunks as the LLM generates them
• ToolRegistry -- @registry.tool() decorator for sync and async Python functions
• BaseGateway -- A2A AgentExecutor (message extraction, artifact handling)
• LLM -- thin wrapper around litellm.acompletion(), supports 100+ providers
• build_app() / serve() -- A2A ASGI app + uvicorn in one call
• Governance -- deterministic tool policies, scoped permissions, human-in-the-loop approvals
• Observability -- native OpenTelemetry traces and metrics on every request

Configuration

All configuration is via environment variables. Key settings:

Provider routing is automatic via LiteLLM:

export AGENT_MODEL="openai/gpt-4o"       && export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-..."
export AGENT_MODEL="anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-20250514" && export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="sk-ant-..."
export AGENT_MODEL="gemini/gemini-2.5-flash" && export GEMINI_API_KEY="..."

Scaffold a New Agent

lughus new my_agent
cd my_agent && pip install -e ".[dev]" && pytest -q
python -m my_agent  # starts A2A server on :8080

Governance

Tools can declare risk levels, required scopes, and approval workflows. The policy engine evaluates actions deterministically before execution -- prompt instructions are never used as access controls. See docs/guides/agentic-design.md for agentic design rules.

from lughus import ToolRegistry, ToolRisk, ToolEffect

registry = ToolRegistry()

@registry.tool(
    "deploy",
    "Deploy to production.",
    {"type": "object", "properties": {"service": {"type": "string"}}, "required": ["service"]},
    risk=ToolRisk.CRITICAL,
    effects=frozenset([ToolEffect.WRITE, ToolEffect.IRREVERSIBLE]),
    requires_approval=True,
)
def deploy(*, service: str, state) -> str:
    return json.dumps({"status": "deployed"})

Links

• CHANGELOG
• CONTRIBUTING
• Architecture decisions
• Agentic design rules
• Guarantees
• LiteLLM providers

License

MIT -- see LICENSE.