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Installation

Agentic Kernel ships as two SDKs, feature-paired at the same version (0.6.0), licensed Apache-2.0.

Prerequisites

  • TypeScript: Node.js ≥ 20, npm (or pnpm/yarn).
  • Python: Python ≥ 3.11, pip (or uv).

TypeScript (@agentic-kernel/*)

Published to npmjs.org — public, no auth required.

# the kernel
npm install @agentic-kernel/core

# adapters, as needed
npm install @agentic-kernel/model-openai      # remote models (OpenAI Responses API)
npm install @agentic-kernel/model-ondevice    # local / small models
npm install @agentic-kernel/multi-agent @agentic-kernel/state-postgres

Available packages (all under @agentic-kernel/): core, model-openai, model-ondevice, memory-postgres, state-file, state-postgres, observer-otel, multi-agent, distributed, evaluator, testing, conformance.

import { createAgentEngine, BasicPolicy, ToolRegistry } from "@agentic-kernel/core";

Packages are ESM, ship their own types, and carry npm provenance attestations.

Python (agentic-kernel-runtime)

Published to PyPI. The distribution is agentic-kernel-runtime; the import package is agentic_kernel.

pip install agentic-kernel-runtime

# with optional adapter clients (extras)
pip install "agentic-kernel-runtime[openai]"   # httpx, for remote models
pip install "agentic-kernel-runtime[all]"      # httpx + psycopg + opentelemetry
Extra Pulls in For
openai httpx remote models (build an HttpFetch)
postgres psycopg[binary] memory_postgres / state_postgres
otel opentelemetry-api, opentelemetry-sdk observer_otel
all all of the above everything 
import agentic_kernel as ak
print(ak.__version__)                 # 0.6.0
from agentic_kernel.core import create_agent_engine

A console script agentic-kernel-eval is installed for the evaluator CLI.

From source (development)

git clone https://github.com/agentic-kernel/agentic-kernel-python.git
cd agentic-kernel-python
uv sync                       # or: pip install -e ".[all]"
uv run pytest

Next: the Getting started walkthrough wires a model and runs your first agent.