Agent Runtime

22 recipes · Shell, files, tools, and stateful agents

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Implementation recipes with clear free-tier paths and reusable agent patterns.

upd 2026-07-07

Agent Runtime

22

Shell, files, tools, and stateful agents

Cloudflare Free App Stack

Intermediate

Deploy a free-tier app with Cloudflare Static Assets, Worker API, D1 database, token-protected admin checks, one-command deploy and production E2E verification.

Build time
20-40 minutes after Cloudflare credentials are ready
Stack
Cloudflare Workers + Workers Static Assets + Cloudflare D1 + Hono + GitHub template
Checked 23d ago
A

Autonomous Incident Triage Agent for On-Call SREs

Advanced

A LangGraph agent that wakes on a PagerDuty page, correlates logs, deploys, and config history across services, forms a root-cause hypothesis, and posts a triage summary to Slack so the on-call engineer skips the manual correlation step.

Build time
A weekend for a scoped prototype on one service
Stack
LangChain | LangGraph + PagerDuty + Slack API + Amazon CloudWatch + Amazon Bedrock
Checked 26d ago

Cloudflare AI Gateway Free LLM Fallback Chain

Advanced

Route coding agents through a Cloudflare-hosted OpenAI-compatible gateway backed by verified free or free-credit LLM providers, with BYOK keys, model aliases, dynamic fallback, and a no-key reserve route.

Build time
2-3 hours after Cloudflare AI Gateway permissions are ready
Stack
Cloudflare AI Gateway + NVIDIA NIM + Mistral AI + Google AI Studio + Cloudflare Workers AI + Kilo Code Gateway + Ollama Cloud
Checked 23d ago

Vercel Agent AI Gateway Central Hub

Intermediate

Deploy a free Vercel-hosted OpenAI-compatible gateway that keeps provider keys in one place, exposes stable model aliases to all agents, and fails over across verified free-tier LLM routes.

Build time
60-90 minutes after provider keys are ready
Stack
Vercel Functions + NVIDIA NIM + Mistral AI + Cloudflare Workers AI + Kilo Code Gateway + Ollama Cloud
Checked 23d ago
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Natural-Language Infrastructure-as-Code Generator

Beginner

A CLI workflow that turns plain-English requests like 'terraform for a highly available EKS' into ready-to-review IaC using aiac, with provider backends for OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, or a local Ollama model so prompts stay inside your environment.

Build time
30 minutes to first generated module
Stack
aiac + Terraform + Amazon Bedrock + Ollama
Checked 26d ago
K

Kubernetes SRE Helper Agent for Multi-Cluster Toil

Intermediate

An LLM agent with read-only kubectl tools that answers 'which cluster is this workload in?' across dozens of clusters, turning a daily manual hunt across 30+ contexts into a single natural-language query, with results delivered to chat.

Build time
An afternoon for a single-task helper
Stack
LangChainGo + Kubernetes + kubectl
Checked 26d ago
H

Human-in-the-Loop Gmail Email Assistant

Advanced

An ambient email assistant that triages your Gmail, drafts replies, schedules meetings, pauses for your approval on risky actions, and remembers your preferences over time using LangGraph.

Build time
A weekend to follow the full 4-notebook workshop
Stack
LangGraph + GitHub Models + Mistral AI (La Plateforme)
Checked 26d ago
U

URL to Twitter & LinkedIn Posts with Human Review

Intermediate

A LangGraph agent that takes a blog, GitHub, or YouTube URL, scrapes it with Firecrawl, drafts platform-native Twitter and LinkedIn posts with Claude, and pauses for human approval before scheduling through Arcade.

Build time
Half a day for the basic setup
Stack
LangChain | LangGraph + Firecrawl + Anthropic | Claude + Arcade + LangSmith + Slack + Supabase
Checked 26d ago
L

LangGraph Supervisor Research Desk

Intermediate

A central supervisor agent coordinates specialized worker agents (a web researcher and a math/analysis agent), deciding which to invoke next and when the task is done, using langgraph-supervisor.

Build time
2-4 hours for a prototype
Stack
Qdrant Cloud Free Tier + Anthropic Startup Program + OpenRouter
Checked 26d ago
C

CrewAI Hierarchical Content Crew

Intermediate

A manager agent plans, delegates, and validates work across specialist agents (researcher, writer, editor) using CrewAI's hierarchical process, with tasks allocated at runtime rather than pre-assigned.

Build time
2-4 hours for a prototype
Stack
GroqCloud + OpenRouter + Qdrant Cloud Free Tier
Checked 26d ago
Z

Zendesk Ticket Triage Agent: Classify, Search the KB, Route to Slack

Intermediate

A deterministic triage pipeline that wakes on each new Zendesk ticket, classifies it with an LLM, searches a Notion knowledge base, posts a structured alert to the right Slack channel, and writes tags, priority, and a draft reply back to Zendesk.

Build time
Half a day to a day for a prototype
Stack
Zendesk + Notion + Slack API + OpenRouter
Checked 26d ago
L

LlamaIndex AgentWorkflow Report Swarm

Intermediate

Three handoff-driven agents (research, write, review) collaborate as a swarm via LlamaIndex AgentWorkflow, passing control to one another until a report is finished — with an orchestrator variant for tighter control.

Build time
2-4 hours for a prototype
Stack
Qdrant Cloud Free Tier + Anthropic Startup Program + OpenRouter
Checked 26d ago
D

Document Agents over Manuals and FAQs with LlamaIndex

Intermediate

Parse complex product manuals, FAQs, and policies with LlamaParse, index them, and serve document agents that answer customer questions with citations, traceability, and confidence — deflecting repetitive tickets.

Build time
Half a day to a day for a prototype
Stack
LlamaIndex + LlamaParse + OpenAI Platform
Checked 26d ago
P

Parallel Subagent Research Swarm

Advanced

A lead agent plans a research strategy, spawns parallel subagents with separate context windows to investigate different aspects simultaneously, then a citation agent attributes every claim — the orchestrator-worker architecture behind Claude Research.

Build time
1-2 days for a prototype
Stack
Anthropic Startup Program + Upstash | Redis + Qdrant Cloud Free Tier
Checked 26d ago
C

Chat With Your Codebase Using LlamaIndex RAG

Beginner

Index a GitHub repository with LlamaIndex, store embeddings in a vector database, and answer natural-language questions about the code with citations back to the exact files.

Build time
1-2 hours for a prototype
Stack
LlamaIndex + LlamaHub (LlamaIndex tools) + Qdrant Cloud Free Tier + GitHub repository + Google AI Studio / Gemini API
Checked 26d ago
N

Natural-Language Google Calendar Agent (MCP)

Intermediate

Talk to your calendar in plain English: an MCP-connected agent that creates events, checks availability, manages invites, and imports events from images or PDFs, usable from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP host.

Build time
1-2 hours to connect and configure
Stack
GitHub Models + Anthropic Startup Program
Checked 26d ago
M

Multi-Agent Lead Scraper that Outputs a Structured Leads Table

Intermediate

A CrewAI crew where a researcher agent searches and scrapes the web and an analyst agent normalizes the findings into a structured, deduplicated leads table written to CSV or a database.

Build time
2-3 hours
Stack
CrewAI + Firecrawl + Serper + OpenAI
Checked 26d ago
A

Autonomous Dependency Migration Agent with OpenHands

Advanced

An agent-runtime workflow that upgrades a breaking dependency across a codebase: it localizes affected usages, applies fixes in a sandbox, runs the test suite, and opens a PR when green.

Build time
A day or more for a real codebase
Stack
OpenHands + E2B + GitHub repository + GitHub Actions + Anthropic Startup Program
Checked 26d ago
D

Deep Research Agent with Firecrawl and an Agent SDK

Intermediate

An agent that takes a research question, fans out web searches, scrapes the most promising sources into clean markdown with Firecrawl, and synthesizes a cited report — an open-source alternative to OpenAI Deep Research.

Build time
Half a day for a prototype
Stack
Firecrawl + OpenAI Agents SDK + OpenAI + Anthropic Startup Program
Checked 26d ago
A

Auditable Deep Research Pipeline with LangGraph and Exa

Advanced

A LangGraph state machine that decomposes a research question into sub-questions, finds sources with Exa semantic search, extracts and reranks passages, and writes an executive report with citations — auditable and private enough for finance or legal due diligence.

Build time
A day for a working pipeline
Stack
LangChain + Exa + Cohere + OpenAI
Checked 26d ago
C

Competitive Analysis Crew that Outputs a Strategic Report

Intermediate

A CrewAI crew of specialist agents — an SEO analyst, a brand-positioning analyst, and a synthesis writer — that researches competitors in parallel and produces a coherent, fact-based strategic report instead of a single subjective prompt.

Build time
2-3 hours
Stack
CrewAI + Firecrawl + Serper + OpenAI
Checked 26d ago
P

Private Web Research Agent with Self-Hosted SearXNG

Intermediate

A research agent whose web-search tool is a self-hosted SearXNG metasearch engine instead of a metered commercial API — all search traffic stays local, no per-query billing, and you control which engines are queried, paired with Firecrawl for clean extraction.

Build time
Half a day including Docker setup
Stack
SearXNG + LangChain + Firecrawl + Ollama
Checked 26d ago