saddler 0.1.1

Agent harness assembler and lifecycle manager

saddler

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saddler is a declarative CLI for building and operating agent environments.

It manages storage, runtime, and agent lifecycles in one place, and provides hitch for compose-style multi-agent orchestration.

Why saddler

• Unified lifecycle management for storages, runtimes, and agents
• Pluggable harnesses (for example codex, cursor, gemini, openclaw, opencode, claude_code)
• Declarative resource assembly from local paths or remote sources
• Repeatable environment setup with hitch (up, down, ps, config)
• Python-first workflow with uv and Typer-based CLI ergonomics

[!NOTE] saddler is under active iteration. Backward compatibility between early versions is not guaranteed.

Requirements

• Python 3.11+
• uv (recommended package manager)
• Optional: Docker (for docker runtime backend)

Installation

Install from PyPI:

pip install saddler

or with uv:

uv tool install saddler

or run directly with uvx:

uvx saddler --help

Install from source (for contributors):

git clone https://github.com/hopeful0/saddler.git
cd saddler
uv sync

Validate installation:

uv run saddler --help

Using saddler with uvx

For ad-hoc usage without global installation:

uvx saddler --help

For local source-tree testing:

uvx --from . saddler --help

For daily usage after installation:

saddler --help

[!TIP] uvx saddler ... is ideal for quick runs. uv tool install saddler is better for day-to-day usage.

Quick Start

1) Create and start a runtime

saddler runtime create local --name dev-local
saddler runtime start dev-local

2) Create an agent on that runtime

saddler agent create \
  --runtime dev-local \
  --harness codex \
  --workdir /workspace \
  --name my-agent

3) Launch the harness session

saddler agent tui my-agent

4) Inspect current resources

saddler runtime ls
saddler agent ls
saddler storage ls

Core Commands

• saddler agent create|ls|inspect|tui|acp|rm
• saddler runtime create|start|stop|ls|inspect|harnesses|rm
• saddler storage create|ls|inspect|rm
• saddler hitch config|up|stop|down|ps

Common aliases:

• saddler agent can also be called from top-level high-frequency commands
• saddler runtime has alias saddler rt
• saddler storage has alias saddler st

Runtime Creation Patterns

Create local runtime:

saddler runtime create local --name local-dev

Create docker runtime:

saddler runtime create docker \
  --name docker-dev \
  --image saddler-runtime:all \
  --user 1000:1000 \
  --mount .:/workspace

Create with dynamic backend type:

saddler runtime create --type <backend> --opt key=value

[!TIP] Use saddler runtime harnesses <runtime-ref> to verify which harness dependencies are already installed in that runtime.

Hitch: Compose-style Orchestration

hitch treats agent stacks like a compose project and helps you bring everything up/down reproducibly.

Minimal example:

name: demo
version: 1

runtimes:
  rt:
    backend: docker
    backend_spec:
      image: saddler-runtime:all
      user: 1000:1000
    mounts:
      - .:/workspace

agents:
  main:
    harness: opencode
    workdir: /workspace
    runtime: rt

Typical workflow:

saddler hitch config -f hitch.local.yml
saddler hitch up -f hitch.local.yml
saddler hitch ps -f hitch.local.yml
saddler hitch down -f hitch.local.yml

Shell Completion

saddler supports native Typer completion for zsh, bash, and fish.

• zsh:
  • echo 'eval "$(_SADDLER_COMPLETE=zsh_source saddler)"' >> ~/.zshrc
  • source ~/.zshrc
• bash:
  • echo 'eval "$(_SADDLER_COMPLETE=bash_source saddler)"' >> ~/.bashrc
  • source ~/.bashrc
• fish:
  • echo '_SADDLER_COMPLETE=fish_source saddler | source' >> ~/.config/fish/config.fish
  • source ~/.config/fish/config.fish

Troubleshooting

• runtime harnesses shows not installed
  • Install required harness dependencies in the runtime, then rerun runtime harnesses
• Docker runtime cannot start
  • Confirm Docker daemon is running and your user can run docker
• Bind mount errors
  • Ensure destination is absolute and host source path exists
• Completion not effective
  • Reload shell config (source ~/.zshrc, source ~/.bashrc, or fish config)