Build real agentic apps using CUGA: two dozen working examples on a lightweight harness

CUGA (Configurable Generalist Agent) is an open-source agent harness developed by IBM to streamline the creation and deployment of agentic applications by handling complex tasks such as planning, execution, and state management, allowing developers to focus on specifying tools and prompts. By providing a pre-assembled infrastructure, CUGA reduces the need for extensive setup traditionally required in building agentic apps, offering a library of two-dozen single-file applications as examples. These applications, built using FastAPI, demonstrate various use cases from movie recommendations to cloud architecture advising and highlight the reusability and adaptability of the CUGA framework. CUGA's design emphasizes governance and scalability, featuring a policy system and multi-agent delegation to ensure secure and efficient operations, with options for deploying agents in secure environments like IBM's Sovereign Core. The system's flexibility allows for easy swapping of underlying models and tools, making it adaptable to different operational contexts while maintaining predictability and safety through built-in governance features.